Eircom news

knipex

Well I couldnt think of anything else to call it.

Looks like everyone in the main urban centres will now have access to DSL.

http://www.rte.ie/business/2007/0116/eircom.html?rss

1huge1

how about urban centre all get dsl (too long i guess)
only 24,000 lines in the cities failed
guess it really is limtied to the country

im still here in a town of 2000 people without broadband...

knipex

As am I.

Hacketry

So Eircom are going to offer imaginary WiMax if they can't provide DSL then?

http://www.enn.ie/frontpage/news-9868496.html

How's that gonna work? Magic?

OfflerCrocGod

Hacketry wrote:

How's that gonna work? Magic?

The Power of Positive Thinking.

lucernarian

Jesus christ... they have finally reached the stage that BT reached in 2004, if I remember correctly....

What is the decibel limit now? It was at 66 dB which is 5.5 km in eircom speak.

watty

Hacketry wrote:

So Eircom are going to offer imaginary WiMax if they can't provide DSL then?

http://www.enn.ie/frontpage/news-9868496.html

How's that gonna work? Magic?

from enn

Eircom is aiming to roll out a new Wi-Max wireless network by the third quarter of 2007, and the company admits that line-of-sight assessments may be premature at the moment, as the Wi-Max masts needed to relay the wireless signals in city centres have not yet been erected.

This is nonsense. eircom have lotsa mast in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Waterford and Galway, they may not have finished installing WiMax on the masts though.

Obviously they can't actually offer it till its working! August is a date mentioned elsewhere.

OfflerCrocGod

To_be_confirmed wrote:

Jesus christ... they have finally reached the stage that BT reached in 2004, if I remember correctly....

Ireland has always been about 3 years behind the UK - although if I remember correctly we were at one stage only 2 years behind them; but then I woke up.

Hacketry

watty wrote:

from enn


This is nonsense. eircom have lotsa mast in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Waterford and Galway, they may not have finished installing WiMax on the masts though.

My uncle has an office in Galway city in a tall building right on the Corrib. A guy from NTR(?) asked him about installing what my uncle remembers as a
"Why Mast" receiver on the roof.

Could this have been Eircom's wi-max installation? Je suis tres errr.... curious.

watty

NTR = National Troll Roads = Irish Broadband. Nothing to do with eircom.