IBB get their press release in first.

spongebob

They beat Buttsy over in Comreg to the draw. Í Hope this wasnt embargoed lads .

Buttsy must have a Complicated Quarterly report to massage I suspect....what with
Comwreck lurking in ambush lest he tell any lies about Internet Penetration rates this time. Expect a downward revision to be buried in there ....somewhere !!!!! Anyway, it turns out that a new tranche of 3.5Ghz licences are being announced once Buttsy gets his claws off the calculator .

IBB have 9 of them. The inevitable press release is Here .

"The new licences are for Athlone, Arklow, Ennis, Kilkenny, Letterkenny, Newbridge, Portlaoise, Wexford and Carlow."

IBB appear to have targeted Chorus areas and some of the mysterious Net2Cell licence areas with a prod at Lastmile and Digiweb for good measure.

Speaking of press releases . Eircom claim to have added 12000 DSL connections in April and May or some 1.3k per week.

There are some 30 weeks left in the year and they are 50k shy of Phil Nolans target of 100,000 by the dend of december. They must add almost 1.7k a week from now till the year end.

M

viking

Originally posted by Muck
Speaking of press releases . Eircom claim to have added 12000 DSL connections in April and May or some 1.3k per week.

There are some 30 weeks left in the year and they are 50k shy of Phil Nolans target of 100,000 by the dend of december. They must add almost 1.7k a week from now till the year end.

M

Don't eircom use bitstream customers to bump up their own DSL customer figures?

Or are they using the words "DSL connections" very cleverly...?

V

Cryos

Don't eircom use bitstream customers to bump up their own DSL customer figures?

Or are they using the words "DSL connections" very cleverly...?

They use those words very cleverly,but didnt you know eircom are world masters for pumping up stats and spreading propeganda about their 'Great' Infastructure

spongebob

Correct V

They count the Bitstream connections en bloc. We therefore get the grand total figure from Eircom Wholesale . Their target , set by Phil last summer, is 100,000 Bitstreams by the end of December .

M

Mr_Man

In the Business Section of the Irish Times to-day there was an analysis of Eircom's results and under this a sub-story about how all this BB takeup will please the Gubm't which ' wants to transform the State from a broadband laggard into a leader'

The kicker comes in the next paragraph : Eircom is also desperate to roll out the technology as it represents its only real growth opportunity. It generated €17m from DSL in the year to March'

Given the problems that folks on the boards have highlighted about line problems, incompetent biddies, slow rollout etc they must be talking about a different Eircom.

M.

MDR

Eircom is also desperate to roll out the technology as it represents its only real growth opportunity. It generated €17m from DSL in the year to March'

How little forsight is there at Eircom, this time two years ago they where worried about canabalising dialup revenue ....

bealtine

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Eircom is also desperate to roll out the technology as it represents its

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How little forsight is there at Eircom, this time two years ago they where worried about canabalising dialup revenue ....

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Indeed this is the same eircom that told us in no uncertain terms that
"there is no demand for braodband in this state"

Thankfully the dimwits that run the company have "finally seen the light".
Now if we could only get WLL type wireless from eircom instead of that
abonination that is satellite...

(At the time it was pointed out that there couln't be a demand for a service
that did not exist. But that's another story)

uteotw

IBB started the 3.5gz roll-out in May in Cork... right now the 3Rock transamitter has been acting dodgy for the past 2 weeks and other transmitters too... they must be working on them.

Velcrow

slight bit of topic but - how do you find irish broadband I been with them for 4 months and the past 2 weeks the pings have been drastic - ( 200ms 50ms 500ms 30ms ) thankfully things seem to settling down. What type of connection are you on?


Will the Breeze gear be compatible with 3.5 ??