Comment: Eircom needs to make urgent call on mobile market

Eircom's quarterly figures, published last week, underline that the phone company will need to hurry up and decide how it will get back into the mobile phone market.

With a further 9 per cent drop in voice traffic revenues, there is no avoiding the fact that Eircom's traditional business is continuing to switch to the duopolist mobile providers, Vodafone and MM02.

Signs from within Eircom HQ suggest that a final decision on how ...