Pure Telecom
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 9 May 2002 in Dublin, Ireland |
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Area served | Republic of Ireland |
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| Revenue |  €20 million (2016) |
| Members | 42,500 (2017) |
Number of employees | 200 (2017) |
| Website | puretelecom |
Pure Telecom is an Irish fixed telecommunications company which provides low cost fibre broadband and landline phone services to residential and business consumers.
History[edit]
Pure Telecom was founded on 9 May 2002 by Paul Connell and Alan McGonnell, former directors of telecoms provider GTS.[1][2][3][4] In July 2002, the company was in talks with Hutchinson Whampoa with the plan of creating a virtual mobile phone network.[5] In 2004, the company, then based in Cornelscourt, had 4,800 residential customers and 3,500 business customers by April 2005.[6][7][8] Pure Telecom acquired the Irish customer base of UK-based Comic Voice and Data, resulting in a revenue boost of €250,000 per month, in October 2004.[9][10]
In 2005, they moved from its Cornelscourt office to Citywest to facilitate its growing staff base and plans to enter the residential telecommunications market. In September 2007, they acquired NewTel for under €1 million, alongside a subsequent payment of €200,000. Following this agreement, they also acquired NewTel's 12,000 subscribers alongside its call centre in Citywest and staff.[11]
In 2009, the success of its residential arm led to their second office move to its current location in Citywest Business Campus.
In 2016, the company announced that the previous year was its most successful yet, having signed up 10,000 new residential customers in 2015, resulting in a €5 million revenue boost. The following year, the company announced that it had signed up its 40,000th residential customer after adding 10,000 new customers in 2016.
The company has signed a number of deals with leading telecommunications wholesale providers in Ireland such as In 2017, it announced a €35 million deal with open eir, allowing it to offer almost two million potential customers high-speed broadband and phone services via open eir's nationwide open access network.[12][13]
Estimated at €20 million, it signed a deal with BT in 2018, allowing Pure Telecom to offer broadband and phone services to 1.8 million potential customers via BT Ireland's nationwide infrastructure network.[14]
In 2020, with the agreement it has inked with BT Ireland, Pure Telecom will have access to SIRO's nationwide high-speed fiber broadband network, which currently has 338,000 locations throughout Ireland. With SIRO continuing to link regional and urban locations with gigabit internet, Pure Telecom will be able to reach a wider audience across the nation thanks to the €10M BT deal.[15]
References[edit]
- ^ "Pure Telecom Ltd - Irish Company Info and Credit Scores - SoloCheck". www.solocheck.ie. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
- ^ McCaughren, Samantha (11 July 2002). "'Telco' is not a dirty word for Pure duo". Irish Independent. p. 5. Retrieved 13 December 2023 – via Irish Newspaper Archives.
- ^ Campbell, Anne (22 February 2003). "New company aims to cut costs for Dundalk businesses". Dundalk Democrat. p. 25. Retrieved 13 December 2023 – via Irish Newspaper Archives.
- ^ "Imagine Telecommunications Business Limited - Irish Company Info". www.solocheck.ie. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
- ^ McCaughren, Samantha (11 July 2002). "'Virtual network' plan by Pure". Irish Independent. p. 3. Retrieved 13 December 2023 – via Irish Newspaper Archives.
- ^ O'Sullivan, Orla (11 March 2004). "Picking a new phone company". Irish Independent. p. 7. Retrieved 13 December 2023 – via Irish Newspaper Archives.
- ^ Molony, Senan (4 September 2004). "Telephone company charged 10 times the proper rate". Irish Independent. p. 8. Retrieved 13 December 2023 – via Irish Newspaper Archives.
- ^ Ryan, Ellis (2 April 2005). "Businesses 'must make own choices' on broadband providers". Westmeath Examiner. p. 5. Retrieved 13 December 2023 – via Irish Newspaper Archives.
- ^ "Telco's €250k revenue boost". Irish Independent. 14 October 2004. p. 17. Retrieved 13 December 2023 – via Irish Newspaper Archives.
- ^ "Telco gains profits of €250k per month in UK takeover". Irish Independent. 28 October 2004. p. 3. Retrieved 13 December 2023 – via Irish Newspaper Archives.
- ^ O'Hora, Ailish (7 September 2007). "Pure Telecom acquires NewTel services group". Irish Independent. p. 1. Retrieved 13 December 2023 – via Irish Newspaper Archives.
- ^ Garvey, Maurice (14 September 2017). "Citywest firm Pure Telecom sign €35m deal with open eir". Echo (Tallaght). p. 32. Retrieved 13 December 2023 – via Irish Newspaper Archives.
- ^ "Pure Telecom and open eir in €35m deal". Pure Telecom. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
- ^ "Pure Telecom and BT Ireland sign multi-million telecoms deal | Pure Telecom - Blog". Pure Telecom. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
- ^ Leonard, Ronan (1 October 2020). "Pure Telecom signs multi-million broadband deal with BT Ireland". Irish Tech News.