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Searching for Data on The Timeline of Broadband Availability

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  • 26-08-2009 8:19pm
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    wasmeir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭


    Hi all,

    I am currently undertaking academic research on broadband in Ireland. In particular i am currently looking at the spread/diffusion of broadband adoption.

    Unfortunately i'm finding it difficult to find the 'turn-on' dates for affordable (i.e., non-satellite) retail broadband for households.

    The data i need is the turn-on date (year will do) for towns of over 1000 people (the towns identified in the 2006 Census).

    As such i would be grateful to anyone that might know where to find this data.

    Presumably eircom knows but they have proven unresponsive so far.

    thanks,

    Tom


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    clohamon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,764 ✭✭✭clohamon


    wasmeir wrote: »

    Presumably eircom knows but they have proven unresponsive so far.

    There's some archive press releases here going back to Mid-2007.


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    wasmeir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭wasmeir


    Thanks Clohamon. This confirms they should have the archived information going all the way back, even if these press releases only extend back to 2006/7.


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


    search boards for

    phil nolan AND exchanges

    it was roughly

    1. Big towns 2003
    2. Towns above 1500 persons in NB! census 2002 NB! and announced c.2005

    This gave us around 400 exchanges .

    Then

    3. 100 more exchanges 2006 maybe announced by Nolan maybe danon
    4. 330 exchanges 2007 announced by Danon not Nolan who was gone by then

    we should be coming towards the end of the 330 tranche now but only 2/3rd is done , see

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055534012

    Couple of mid decade dribs and drabs done on GBS and by Udarás na Gaeltachta .

    None of them were completed bang on schedule


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    trekkypj
    Registered Users Posts: 346 ✭✭trekkypj


    I don't know how much help this is to you, but eircom maintain a site at www.broadbandatoz.ie which shows which exchanges are upgraded, or planned to be upgraded to DSL broadband. Although it's mainly for rural exchanges and only really deals with the last 300 or so eircom are planning to enable.

    That said, the news archives do show dates and names of exchanges which have been enabled over the last year or so so it may be of some use.


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    lucernarian
    Registered Users Posts: 9,235 ✭✭✭lucernarian


    The amber programme extended DSL availability to more areas than any exchange enabling ever did. I think the press releases gave the numbers of lines which were now eligible to use DSL because of each attenuation limit increase, but it was of the order of 5 digits each time.

    Sorry that I don't have figures for the number of lines involved, but eircom press releases would definitely have them.


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