Dáil Committee Reports . 5Mbits for everyone in 2 years / fire Mary Hanafin !

spongebob · 24-03-2004 1:10pm #1

Well.......they asked for :

"the appointment of a single Minister of State with cross-departmental responsibility for the rollout of national broadband infrastructure and the development of e-government services. "

Which means the same thing, Hanafin is too busy whipping the FF boys to do E-**** All about E-Anything.

There are a total of 12 recommendations along with the following objectives (apart from firing the useless Hanafin ) .

"The first objective is to define broadband as a service that provides at least 512Kb per second connectivity and set as a target 5Mb per second by 2006 with widely available 10Mb per second connectivity in 2008 as a further target. "

Yeah, I'll believe that

Full story on Silicon Republic who have been itching to report on it for a while.

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Tom Dunne · 24-03-2004 5:20pm

ROFL. That's about all I can say.

I live about 30 miles west of Dublin in a small village and Eircon have told me that I won't be getting broadband until March 2005.

Could it be that Eircon are holding off to commence a secret pilot of 5Mbps broadband? Could me and my fellow villagers be the envy of the country with super high speed internet speeds, no download caps and wonderful customer service?

Sorry, I drifted off there....

thegills · 24-03-2004 5:27pm

Is this report available online??

spongebob · 24-03-2004 5:30pm

Mail the clerk of the committee for it, he has not answered me yet though. See
Here .

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robfitz · 24-03-2004 7:23pm

Originally posted by thegills
Is this report available online??

We were told that it would be available Friday.

/me looks at the cdrom he was given

Volume one is at http://273k.net/Broadband2ndReportVolume1.pdf, volume two is 65MB so I'll leave it until Friday.

thegills · 30-03-2004 11:01am

BUMP.

Is Volume II ready yet?? I want to see the presentations !!!

robfitz · 30-03-2004 2:40pm

Seems it still hasn't been upload yet by the gov, so here you go.

http://273k.net/report2.zip 40MB

Please don't kill my hosting service.

sceptre · 30-03-2004 2:45pm

I'll upload it to a UL server later (34Mps line as far as I know so screw their hosting service) when I get it downloaded

thegills · 30-03-2004 2:55pm

Thanks guys. I'm only on a crappy DSL line so I'll wait until the PDF version is available.

sceptre · 30-03-2004 3:30pm

Uploaded to here

(62.8MB)

I'll leave it there a week or two. Bandwidth isn't a problem as the file will be served over HEANet but my disc usage is. I've unzipped it as it'll be less likely to be removed if it's a pdf file.

spongebob · 30-03-2004 3:36pm

did you not get those Zip Disks .....ingrate

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sceptre · 30-03-2004 3:46pm

Originally posted by Muck
did you not get those Zip Disks .....ingrate

M

Crap, thought I sent you a message about that but there's nothing in my message tracking. Received, working, very grateful, owe you one.
(especially given that another one of my ten-year old ones packed it in about a fortnight ago)

UL's three miles away and walking there today might be overkill.

Dáil Committee Reports . 5Mbits for everyone in 2 years / fire Mary Hanafin !

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