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Is Mobile in Ireland Destroying Infrastructure?

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    #32
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    SkepticOne wrote: »
    They good thing is that they themselves get to suffer financially as people leave them.

    There is a point at which this becomes a serious public policy issue and that point is fast approaching , then again eircom chose to load itself with unsustainable debts of which they must be purged to be of any use to anybody .

    As eircom told their shareholders
    Our fixed-line business is dependent upon increased turnover from data services to offset the impact of the declining market for fixed-line voice services on our operating results and to maintain the long-term profitability of the business. If demand for internet access and usage does not grow, if our customers do not adopt our more advanced and faster forms of internet access, such as asymmetric digital subscriber line, (“ADSL”), which is a type of broadband service, or if our competitors offer cheaper or more attractive services, we may not be able to increase our data services turnover

    Their annual report , due next week, will show an accelerated decline in connected lines and may even show the first ever decline in ADSL customers ....if not the following quarter will when they report it in November .


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    #33
    SkepticOne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,718 ✭✭✭SkepticOne


    Eircom wrote:
    If demand for internet access and usage does not grow, if our customers do not adopt our more advanced and faster forms of internet access, such as asymmetric digital subscriber line, (“ADSL”), which is a type of broadband service, or if our competitors offer cheaper or more attractive services, we may not be able to increase our data services turnover
    Good.


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    #34
    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    I expect to see a 5% to 10% decline in xDSL due to UPC and Mobile, coupled with the very high line rental and that DSL market (due to availability) was close to saturation in 2008.

    Only smaller exchanges are not enabled.
    Many lines fail on existing exchanges.
    Only 66% of premises have lines.

    So this means less than 50% of population can get a 3Mbps DSL connection without installing or replacing a line? The Majority of DSL users are on 1Mbps. Which shows the futility of the 20Mbps to 24Mbps products on DSL given how short a distance they work over.


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    #35
    Solair
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,230 ✭✭✭Solair


    The Government needs to put its foot down when it comes to eircom.

    If I were Minister for Communications I would quite simply set a required target level of service for eircom's infrastructure. It must reach X% of households with X Mbit/s service.

    If, due to internal problems / debts or whatever, it cannot achieve this - auction its licence.

    There's no reason why a badly managed mess of a company should be allowed to hijack our communications infrastructure and put jobs and investment at major risk.

    It would undoubtedly force eircom into liquidation, but honestly who cares? It's owned primarily by a bunch of speculative investors, it's really of very little consequence to the state if this company were to be forced to sell its licence and infrastructure to someone else.

    We simply cannot have a situation where the only truely national telecommunications network is allowed to rot and crumble due to lack of investment simply because the company currently operating it has run into serious difficulties.]
    Sadly, we don't have that kind of leadership in this country. The minister will instead, tie himself in knots bending over backwards to ensure that the status quo goes on and using sticking plasters to keep it stumbling onwards.


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