{"id":124127,"date":"2025-11-06T01:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T01:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/124127\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T01:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T01:30:09","slug":"will-imagines-big-gamble-double-its-customer-base-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/124127\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Imagine\u2019s big gamble double its customer base? \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">This week\u2019s episode of Inside Business sees host Ciar\u00e1n Hancock joined in studio by Niall Tallon, chief executive of Irish telecoms group Imagine. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">A minor in the Irish market, the company recently made a bold move offering cheap fibre broadband products along with a promise not to increase those prices for the next five years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">This is designed to double its customer base by 2030 as part of a multi-million investment in growing the business. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">It\u2019s a brave strategy given that Imagine has just 35,000 existing customers and big competitors such as Eir, Vodafone, Three and Virgin Media who control a large chunk of the market between them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Niall explains how the offer will work and the business case behind it, as well as discussing the company\u2019s Armenian owners and how he came to run a telco with a chequered history that was originally founded by the late Irish entrepreneur Sean Bolger. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Produced by John Casey with JJ Vernon on sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week\u2019s episode of Inside Business sees host Ciar\u00e1n Hancock joined in studio by Niall Tallon, chief executive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,602,61,60,8439,907,25899],"class_list":["post-124127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-eir","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-three","tag-virgin-media","tag-vodafone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}