Interesting Article about Eircom/Smart

replytohere2004 · 12-01-2006 10:19pm #1

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PixelTrawler · 13-01-2006 10:36am

didnt realise things looked that tough for them at the moment...

Sponge Bob · 13-01-2006 10:46am

for who ??

WizZard · 13-01-2006 11:31am

Both eircom and Smart I presume...

damien · 13-01-2006 11:40am

Badly researched article.

PixelTrawler · 13-01-2006 12:04pm

why so?

-- do you mean the about the transfer process?

PixelTrawler · 13-01-2006 12:08pm

Sponge Bob wrote:

for who ??

well paints a fairly tough business outlook for eircom going forward... mind you you could prob write a similar article about incumbants in other eurozone countries too... fairly similar environment for Deutsche Telecom at the mo

paulm17781 · 13-01-2006 12:10pm

Joebloggs4817 wrote:

why so?

There is alot in it that is wrong. Smart have not signed up 100,000 customers and I think (though I stand to be corrected) they only have about 2,000 active BB connections.

PixelTrawler · 13-01-2006 12:15pm

thought that fact was wrong anyway... seeing as they are still offering the "line rental for life"

PixelTrawler · 13-01-2006 12:16pm

Sponge Bob wrote:

for who ??

SpongeBob I meant eircom.

paints a pretty decent light for yourselves

Sponge Bob · 13-01-2006 12:25pm

I thought it looked worse for Smart !

PixelTrawler · 13-01-2006 12:26pm

mad!

OfflerCrocGod · 13-01-2006 1:24pm

damien.m wrote:

Badly researched article.

If you are talking about the numbers of subscribers to Smart and their BB numbers yes they are wrong but it's the rest of the article that's interesting. Is it really such a bad situation for €ircon? If it is the goverment might have to prop up the pension scheme :mad:

Maskhadov · 13-01-2006 1:39pm

Smart only has 2,000 active BB connections ?? what a joke

paulm17781 · 13-01-2006 1:59pm

Maskhadov wrote:

Smart only has 2,000 active BB connections ?? what a joke

You can thank Ericon for much of that.

digitalninja · 13-01-2006 2:07pm

eircon is right.
it took me 2 months to get me broadband with smart because of eircoms ****ing about in december.

JackieChan · 13-01-2006 2:20pm

So Eircom pay out 109million in dividends this year and yet the government should bail out their pension plan if need be...I think not.

paulm17781 · 13-01-2006 2:46pm

digitalninja wrote:

eircon is right.
it took me 2 months to get me broadband with smart because of eircoms ****ing about in december.

5 months to port my number to Blueface! No fault of Blueface's.

damien · 13-01-2006 3:02pm

why so?

1. eircom are far from fcked
2. They think eircom are rolling out broadband to make money, dialup is still the golden calf for them.
3. Smart sign-up figures are out by about 50-70,000
4. Number of Smart LLU customers are way off
5. Meteor are a live working mobile platform, Smart 3G are years away, as is proper 3G.
6. They think Smart will do well and mentioned eircom almost shut them down before. There's a court case about this. Eircom can still win. They make a habit out of winning in the courts if you recall.
7. Smart are just as debt laden, if not more than eircom. eircom own their equipment, Smart do not.
8. eircom still have the Govt contract. That's worth a fortune.
9. The Govt are not going to force LLU through.
10. ComReg anyone?

WizZard · 13-01-2006 4:08pm

*cry*

Interesting Article about Eircom/Smart

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