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Eircom eFibre VDSL/FTTC rollout – plans to reach 1.6m premises by mid 2016

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  • #2132
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    TechnoFreek wrote: »
    Saw a small grey eircom van parked up in Meadowvale, Arklow yesterday evening after 6pm. The van looked like it had a picture of fibre on the side.

    Was out of the house for the evening so don't know if anyone came calling. Nothing dropped in the door either.

    Could it have been a sales rep? Didn't look like an engineers van.

    Could have been anything really. That's just a branding campaign used on a lot of their smaller vans


  • #2133
    Praetorian
    Registered Users Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭Praetorian


    KN networks looked to be running fibre the length of the R122 road (the main road into Balbriggan, towards the m1 motorway).


  • #2134
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    In Cork there's significant amounts of fibre laying going on in the Dennehy's Cross exchange area (Western Suburbs - Wilton / Bishopstown etc) at the moment.

    They've also replaced a lot of older cabinets around Wellington Road exchange area, even though there's no fibre cabinet gone in yet. I assume there's going to be another round of VDSL2 cabinets going in to those locations as it wouldn't have made much sense to replace the old cabinets otherwise.

    There's still a fair bit more to go in Cork City, but it's progressing very rapidly.


  • #2135
    tom23
    Registered Users Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭tom23


    Hi Folks,

    Am in two minds to renew my contract with Eircom but was told today that Fibre Optics will in Navan within three months. Is this true? Was thinking of switching to Sky.


  • #2136
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    tom23 wrote: »
    Hi Folks,

    Am in two minds to renew my contract with Eircom but was told today that Fibre Optics will in Navan within three months. Is this true? Was thinking of switching to Sky.

    If there's fibre coming to your area soon, I'd say hold off on going into 12 month contracts with anyone.

    Sky will quite probably launch the same set of products (using Eircom wholesale access) but, they've no announcements yet, so I'd just wait until May 20th if you can. That's the date Eircom will be switching this stuff on.

    Basically, all the usual DSL providers will be able to sell fibre products over Eircom Wholesale's network.


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  • #2137
    Harry Deerpark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 331 ✭✭Harry Deerpark


    tom23 wrote: »
    Hi Folks,

    Am in two minds to renew my contract with Eircom but was told today that Fibre Optics will in Navan within three months. Is this true? Was thinking of switching to Sky.


    I think Navan is on phase 5. If I'm right, fiber won't be there for another 21 months.

    Why do you want to renew your contract with Eircom, are they offering you a cheaper package?


  • #2138
    tom23
    Registered Users Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭tom23


    Harry Deerpark wrote: »
    I think Navan is on phase 5. If I'm right, fiber won't be there for another 21 months.

    Why do you want to renew your contract with Eircom, are they offering you a cheaper package?

    They offered me a better deal, its not a world beater, but if I go with Sky I'll get more or less the same broadband speed but about ten euros cheaper. I would love UPC but they wont come out the estate I am in.


  • #2139
    Harry Deerpark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 331 ✭✭Harry Deerpark


    tom23 wrote: »
    They offered me a better deal, its not a world beater, but if I go with Sky I'll get more or less the same broadband speed but about ten euros cheaper. I would love UPC but they wont come out the estate I am in.

    Unfortunately, I don't have UPC either, but if my neighbours wanted it, we can ask UPC to run their cables from roof to roof - no digging involved, just your neighbours' permission to have cable running across their fascia board. It might look ugly in estates with detached housing.

    I'm with Sky and I'm saving about 25 a month. Steady connection but the speeds suffer in the evenings. I think Sky can't handle all the customers they robbed from the others.


  • #2140
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    Harry Deerpark wrote: »
    we can ask UPC to run their cables from roof to roof - no digging involved, just your neighbours' permission to have cable running across their fascia board. It might look ugly in estates with detached housing.

    UPC only need to go overground at the house, if a row of detached houses installs underground runs of 50mm Hydrodaire ( outdoor water pipe) between houses and with string in it then UPC only need to pull cable through and clip it onto walls. This can all go at the back of the house which is where the lawns are anyway.
    I'm with Sky and I'm saving about 25 a month. Steady connection but the speeds suffer in the evenings. I think Sky can't handle all the customers they robbed from the others.

    Sky grabbed too many customers and are inclined to packet shape their way out of the problem rather than dimension their Bitstream circuits properly...and anyway it takes eircom 6 weeks to provision extra Bitstream circuits.


  • #2141
    bk
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,439 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    Added a few cabs I spotted around Dun Laoghaire over the weekend, plus two cabs in Dublin not in place yet, but have license up for new cabs and position marked out near existing cab.

    BTW Sponge Bob if and when you would like to create a new thread for this mapping, let me know and I will sticky it for you.

    Create work on this everyone.


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  • #2142
    lucernarian
    Registered Users Posts: 9,235 ✭✭✭lucernarian


    bk wrote: »
    Added a few cabs I spotted around Dun Laoghaire over the weekend, plus two cabs in Dublin not in place yet, but have license up for new cabs and position marked out near existing cab.

    BTW Sponge Bob if and when you would like to create a new thread for this mapping, let me know and I will sticky it for you.

    Create work on this everyone.
    I think it's a bad idea to add cabinets which haven't been physically installed yet... Planning permission can and has been denied to UPC in parts of Dublin before, for example. I know of one cabinet that was installed in Macken St. in Dublin 2 but was subsequently moved to a nearby street as Dublin City Council took issue with its exact location.


  • #2143
    bk
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,439 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    To_be_confirmed wrote: »
    I think it's a bad idea to add cabinets which haven't been physically installed yet... Planning permission can and has been denied to UPC in parts of Dublin before, for example. I know of one cabinet that was installed in Macken St. in Dublin 2 but was subsequently moved to a nearby street as Dublin City Council took issue with its exact location.

    First of all, it isn't planning permission, rather it is a license for street furniture.

    Second I frequently pass these locations, so I will update and remove them if necessary.

    Really no harm in adding these, I'd be very surprised if they aren't physically in place in the next few weeks, they are already laying fibre to them.


  • #2144
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    bk wrote: »
    Added a few cabs I spotted around Dun Laoghaire over the weekend, plus two cabs in Dublin not in place yet, but have license up for new cabs and position marked out near existing cab.

    BTW Sponge Bob if and when you would like to create a new thread for this mapping, let me know and I will sticky it for you.

    Create work on this everyone.

    Thanks VM BK. I think you can do so now and ditch a few of the less relevant posts to make it ( and this long running thread ) more readable. I am easy on adding cabs where the base has been spotted in situ especially in Drogheda where we know they are near launch. Somewhere like Finglas or Sutton which have barely started they may be a bit of a distraction but they are near install.


  • #2145
    lucernarian
    Registered Users Posts: 9,235 ✭✭✭lucernarian


    Yes, the notices are applications for licences for telecommunications cabinets going on what I read. Not that this exactly matters, as DCC could still refuse the application.

    I think it helps to keep track of the rollout when we aren't adding anticipated cabinets as well as actual ones. After all, come May, if there isn't a cabinet in place where it has been marked then it will lead to inevitable confusion for the users of the map. If anyone of us gets a regular view of a cabinet, sure we can stick it up almost as soon as it's installed.

    In addition, some of the VDSL2 cabinets in Drogheda were installed about 4 months after the first preparations took place (after fibre was blown and the copper cabinets were replaced). With eircom carrying out installs with little regard to these phases so far, what's to say that more unexpected developments might take place or that the cabinets must be launched by the published date in light of Comreg's ruling? If I remember correctly, the provisions of the rollout of VDSL2 implied that the launch dates were to be provided on an exchange-by-exchange basis.


  • #2146
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    To_be_confirmed wrote: »
    If I remember correctly, the provisions of the rollout of VDSL2 implied that the launch dates were to be provided on an exchange-by-exchange basis.

    And the individual cabinet too. eircom wholesale must disclose everything to the retailers to the cabinet level including a 6 month heads up on new cabinet launches if not by the 20th May catchall date.


  • #2147
    brian ireland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭brian ireland


    Someone pinned a cabinet in loughshinny Co Dublin on the map but I looked for it today and its not there. I was wondering why they would place one miles for any other one so I looked for it. Got my hopes up but now they are dashed :(:(:(


  • #2148
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    brian ireland wrote: »
    Someone pinned a cabinet in loughshinny Co Dublin on the map but I looked for it today and its not there. I was wondering why they would place one miles for any other one so I looked for it. Got my hopes up but now they are dashed :(:(:(


    We have had some marked in villages in N Dublin and E Meath. Have you seen any in Skerries itself in which exchange area Loughshinny is??? It is described as:

    "on the left , at the end of the wall ,before entrance to loughshinny bay est"

    would it be down here instead if so move the marker along and edit the description for us, ta. ???

    Click >>> http://goo.gl/maps/9BHFq


  • #2149
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    Sounds more like someone googled the address and got the townland rather than the housing estate of the same name.


  • #2150
    notahappycamper
    Registered Users Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭notahappycamper


    No sign of any cabinets in Clontarf, Dublin yet:(


  • #2151
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    notahappycamper wrote: »
    No sign of any cabinets in Clontarf, Dublin yet:(

    Clontarf is a 2014 target, after Sutton and Whitehall and Coolock are finished.


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  • #2152
    Mickalus
    Registered Users Posts: 725 ✭✭✭Mickalus


    notahappycamper wrote: »
    No sign of any cabinets in Clontarf, Dublin yet:(

    It could be worse... they could have completed a cabinet less than 200 metres from your house A YEAR AGO, right where you can see it looking out from your window... and then not sell it.

    look, but don't touch! sitting here with crappy 1.7 meg d/l. :)


  • #2153
    10belowzero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 252 ✭✭10belowzero


    Loughshinny is part of the Skerries exch area ,the majority of Skerries is done and awaiting cab install's , apart from job's that need civil's done , Rush and lusk are well advanced also .Most of the cab's have fibre waiting now, ready to go , as soon as the contractor's do the install .First cab plint being put in Rush main st today by K+N .


  • #2154
    notahappycamper
    Registered Users Posts: 2,091 ✭✭✭notahappycamper


    Sponge Bob wrote: »
    Clontarf is a 2014 target, after Sutton and Whitehall and Coolock are finished.

    I wonder how they decide which areas to commence in?


  • #2155
    D'Peoples Voice
    Registered Users Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭D'Peoples Voice


    notahappycamper wrote: »
    No sign of any cabinets in Clontarf, Dublin yet:(
    Yeah on my way to work,
    on the Marlborough Road/Herbert Park road
    I noticed 3 cabinets all with "planning applications for the erection of new cabinet nearby"

    For Ranelagh, the planning permission was here

    For Donnybrook, the planning permission was here

    For Ballsbridge, the planning permission was here

    If we are only at the planning permission stage.....who knows when they will go live in this part of Dublin...


  • #2156
    brian ireland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭brian ireland


    Sponge Bob wrote: »
    We have had some marked in villages in N Dublin and E Meath. Have you seen any in Skerries itself in which exchange area Loughshinny is??? It is described as:

    "on the left , at the end of the wall ,before entrance to loughshinny bay est"

    would it be down here instead if so move the marker along and edit the description for us, ta. ???

    Click >>> http://goo.gl/maps/9BHFq

    I drove down that road in loughshinny all the way to the harbour and this only one I could see is the box in your link. Am I right in saying this is not a fiber cabinet?


  • #2157
    brian ireland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭brian ireland


    Does anyone know when they will go live in Rush? Will be months after the cabinet is installed or weeks?


  • #2158
    brian ireland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭brian ireland


    10belowzero wrote: »
    First cab plint being put in Rush main st today by K+N .
    I got very excited when I saw that today:D:D


  • #2159
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    D'Peoples Voice wrote: »
    Yeah on my way to work,
    on the Marlborough Road/Herbert Park road
    I noticed 3 cabinets all with "planning applications for the erection of new cabinet nearby

    If we are only at the planning permission stage.....who knows when they will go live in this part of Dublin...

    One Rathmines due end 2013 and 2 Beggars Bush due last month. maybe they are having problems with the planners, these should have gone through long ago ....certainly Beggars Bush in 2012.

    The Nutley exchange between Donnybrook and Sillorgan should be complete too. Only a tad of that north of the Dodder. Small exchange in Clonskeagh covering mainly new apartment blocks not done either and not due till next year.


  • #2160
    Mickalus
    Registered Users Posts: 725 ✭✭✭Mickalus


    brian ireland wrote: »
    Does anyone know when they will go live in Rush? Will be months after the cabinet is installed or weeks?

    I think the bigger question is when will they go live in general. They've completed a lot of areas so far but are waiting for a big launch.
    Last date I heard on the grapevine was "Sometime in April"..... Anyone know any different?


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  • #2161
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    brian ireland wrote: »
    Am I right in saying this is not a fiber cabinet?

    Yes. I dunno who put the marker in, that is what can happens when one crowdsources. I'll remove it so.

    It may be planned and if so something should appear soon and you can PM me.


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