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Eircom's strangulation of broadband is bad for the environment

  • 15-06-2007 5:34am
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    Eircom’s pathetically slow broadband speeds make well functioning multi-media applications over broadband impractical.

    Key among these is telecommuting, good quality VoIP, high speed corporate VPN access, and video conferencing. Everything one needs to work from home for a few days of the week or permanently – rather than commuting to the office or travelling to a meeting in your car, helicopter, aeroplane or whatever one might use to maximise Ireland’s already high greenhouse gas emissions (which are twice as high as France or Switzerland).

    Large scale use of wireless is really not an option – because multi-media is bandwidth intensive, and there isn’t enough wireless spectrum, particularly in urban areas, to support this. On top of this are the potential health risks of greatly increased levels of radiation smog.

    This leaves one with the local telephone loop or cable TV. With FTTC, VDSL and MSANs one can deliver 50 to 60 Mbits/sec broadband over a regular phone line from an FTTC box. This will deliver a good quality video conferencing image to/from the home using MPEG4 compression, as well as supporting other applications at the same time. Good enough so you don’t have to jump in the car so see the “white of their eyes”.

    The Irish cable TV monopoly is currently “upgrading” to DOCSIS II systems – which is incapable of supporting high speed broadband with intensive deployment – DOCSIS III being the only standard that might be able to provide the necessary bandwidth.

    Eircom still controls about 95% of the DSL broadband market in Ireland – their “competitors” are just re-selling the eircom broadband service in most cases. This ensures that multi-media suitable broadband services will remain unavailable in Ireland for the foreseeable future – except for a Bill Gates type who can afford an STM-16 broadband connection to their home. The only house with that an internet connection approaching that speed is Leinster House – and nobody lives there.

    One may as well forget any vision of tele-working from one’s environmentally friendly house while the EIRcomREG mafia remain in power and free to do as they wish. Unless you move your home to France or another country where telecommunications market regulation really works.

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