ComReg Quarterly Report Sept 2006

damien

http://comreg.ie/whats_new/default.asp?ctype=5&nid=102445

Lies, damned lies and SPIN.

yop

What utter crap, ComReg and Eircom have to be the same thing with spew like this been produced!!

Foxwood

Perhaps someone can help me figure out Comregs maths.

On Page 15, there's a chart showing the "OECD National Residential Basket - May '06". The chart shows a "fixed" portion of about $330, and a "Usage" portion of about $100. The explanation says that the "Fixed" portion isn't just Line Rental, it can include a "fixed charge bundled service". In Irelands case, that the "eircom Talktime Basic". There is no "eircom Talktime Basic" listed on eircoms website any more, but even line rental alone cost at least $360 (at a generous $1.25 per euro).

Or does "Purchasing Power Parity" mean that Irish euros don't count as much as other peoples euros, because we'vegot more money than we know what to do with?

Foxwood

There are more interesting numbers when it comes to ADSL pricing. Apparently we beat the EU Average for the "Minimum Monthly Cost per 1Mbits/s US$/PPP", coming in at about $12 per 1Mbit/s for a 3.1Mbit service. I was under the impression that Smarts 3Mbit service, at €35, (about $43.50) was the cheapest ADSL service available, and that works out at $14 per 1Mbit/s.

We also do well on the "Lowest Monthly Rental Minimum" at a shade under $20, even though the cheapest package available from the operator with 75% of the market is €30, or $37.50, almost twice the headline figure.

(In fairness, BT's bundle of line rental plus 1MB DSL for €35 is a good deal, and makes basic broadband affordable for just about anyone who can available of the offer. Perhaps Noel should be spending his "Broadband Awareness" advertising money advertising BT's package ).

vito

From reading some of this I reckon they could probably claim that we have the cheapest house prices in Europe (per 100 bricks used).

Complete lack of absolute comparisons and what seems to be shameless adjustment/manipulation of a dataset to produce pretty graphs.

cgarvey

IrelandOffline Press Release issued earlier

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Foxwood wrote:

Perhaps someone can help me figure out Comregs maths.

Or does "Purchasing Power Parity" mean that Irish euros don't count as much as other peoples euros, because we'vegot more money than we know what to do with?

PPP is a fiddle, (introducing an “exchange rate” when none is called for) particularly when it comes to disguising inflated prices for technology based products and services. Ideal if your goal is to distort numbers when you are based in a country with an overheated economy and where “economic” output per capita numbers are grossly inflated by global sales of Viagra and other drugs, Microsoft Windows, and other high margin, high IP content, cheap to produce in large volumes products. Not to mention public planning incompetence and the astronomical property prices arising therefrom.

ComReg, please stop trying to pull the wool, we have a common currency with most of the rest of Europe – let’s call a spade a spade. We compete in the same market. Keep things simple and let’s compare the price of broadband and other telecom services in Italy, France, Germany, wherever else in Europe with Irish prices in Euros, using a €1 = €1 exchange rate.

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ps: For people who subscribe to ComReg’s new publication notification service, is it too much to expect to receive an e-mail notification the minute/half-hour/hour the new document appears on your website, every time, please?

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pps ComReg:

There is no "<a href ...> in your html code for the Irish Communications Market: Quarterly Key Data - September 2006: Explanatory Memorandum download - as a result it is impossible to download at the moment!

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The nation owes a debt of gratitude to ComReg for putting us on top of the “Eurovision” mobile phone expense league, yet again. Average revenue per user in Ireland €47.06 (with a nice green line at the top of the graph). Makes one feel a proud Irish sucker! Pity those Svenska lot at the bottom who only pay €24.68 a month for their mobile phone service.

Thank you ComReg for doing everything possible to kill Smart Telecom’s entry into the mobile market. The nation owes you one!

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Source: p 29 – www.comreg.ie > publications 06/52