Vodafone 4G reaches over 85% population coverage in County Monaghan

Vodafone 4G reaches over 85% population coverage in County Monaghan

Vodafone today celebrated reaching over 85% 4G population coverage in County Monaghan as part of its network upgrade across the country. 4G is also being rolled out across other counties including Louth, Wicklow, Kildare and Meath as Vodafone's reaches 90% superfast 4G population coverage nationwide. Urban and rural, Vodafone 4G is now available in 6 cities and 500 towns and villages nationwide, giving customers the widest coverage of any network.

Vodafone 4G reaches over 85% population coverage in County Monaghan

26 March 2015, Vodafone today celebrated reaching over 85% 4G population coverage in County Monaghan as part of its network upgrade across the country. 4G is also being rolled out across other counties including Louth, Wicklow, Kildare and Meath as Vodafone's reaches 90% superfast 4G population coverage nationwide.

Throughout Ireland, customers in upgraded 4G areas can experience ten times faster speeds1 on their phones to watch videos with no buffering, instant photo uploads and seamless music streaming. Business customers can experience even more benefits downloading large emails and sending files quicker than ever before. Vodafone 4G is available on the majority of new and existing plans across the Red bill pay and Data Extra pre pay packages.

Vodafone CEO, Anne O'Leary said, "Previously where you lived determined your access to high quality networks but we're changing this. With 90% population across the country Vodafone 4G is now available in over 500 towns and villages nationwide.

We want to provide a service that anyone can use, creating massive potential to access the ever-growing number of digital services being developed for education, entertainment and business. In a three year period 4G will achieve the same level of coverage that it took 3G twelve years to achieve, giving our customers the widest coverage of any network and connecting them like never before".

Vodafone Monaghan Business Account Manager, Steven Corrigan, added, "At Vodafone, we're delighted that the roll out of the network upgrade in Monaghan is almost complete. We've seen out customers' appetite for data grow dramatically in recent years. Our customers in Monaghan will now be able to share even more pictures on Instagram, listen to more music on Spotify and enjoy videos on popular apps such as Netflix and YouTube than ever before on 4G enabled handsets".

A range of great value 4G handsets to suit all customer needs are available from free on bill pay plans.

For further information on network upgrade and location coverage maps please see www.vodafone.ie/network/4g.

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1. 4G is ten times faster than standard 3G, speeds of up to 75Mbps.

For Further Information:

Clodagh O'Hagan, Vodafone 087 908 4055
Norman Pratt / Orla Molloy Weber Shandwick, 01 679 8600 / 086 151 8921 / 087 770 5108

About Vodafone Ireland:

Vodafone is Ireland's leading total communications provider with 2.3 million customers. At 31st December 2014, the company had 2.1 million mobile customers and 275,500 customers of its fixed portfolio.

Vodafone provides a total range of communications solutions including voice, messaging, data and fixed communications to consumers and to small, medium and large businesses. Since 2011, Vodafone has expanded its enterprise division, offering integrated next-generation fixed and mobile solutions in addition to cloud-based platforms, machine to machine services and professional ICT support.Vodafone Group is one of the world's leading international mobile communications groups with mobile operations in 26 countries, partners with mobile networks in 54 more, and fixed broadband operations in 17 markets.

For more information, please visit www.vodafone.ie