Wheres the ****ing broadband Ryan ??

Sponge Bob

Read

http://www.cso.ie/releasespublications/documents/industry/2007/ictireland2007.pdf

Page 42 of 67 Table 5c , what ****ing Broadband ???

There are 1.525m households in Ireland of whom 198,000 use the Internet and have no Broadband because they cannot get it .

198k out of 1.525m is

13% of all the households in Ireland

Reasons for households not having broadband but having internet connection at Home in 2007

Not available in my area!

67.4% in the BMW Region

40.4% Southern and Eastern Region

Yes I am SHOUTING because you won't listen otherwise<.cg snip>

croo

and they continue to include the estimated 45k mobile 3g connections in that "broadband" category too!

cgarvey

Less of it Sponge.

watty

I think it's more like 100K now, also Clearwire and Ripwave (nomadic systems using similar technolgy & performance to HSDPA, but even higher (worse) frequencies etc).

crawler

I think sponge caused Bertie to resign Too many actual real facts for him to cope with!!

mike65

In before lock.

Mike.

Sponge Bob

crawler wrote: »

actual real facts

Speaking of which !!!

Care to explain that .sig of yours to us ????

oscarBravo

Whoah. On the move again, crawler?

crawler

Sponge Bob wrote: »

Speaking of which !!!

Care to explain that .sig of yours to us ????

Sorry just spotted this now - yes, I hang out there \|/ now....

BarryM

cgarvey wrote: »

Less of it Sponge.

Agreed, we won't get anywhere screaming and shouting..... data, real data, and minimum techie press releases will get the real message across.

bealtine

crawler wrote: »

Sorry just spotted this now - yes, I hang out there \|/ now....

Now that O2 have taken over (well likely to)?

jor el

BarryM wrote: »

data, real data, and minimum techie press releases will get the real message across.

Because that has worked brilliantly up until now? Ryan simply won't listen. Last time I heard him on the radio he was being pulled up on using HSDPA connections in the broadband stats and comparing these to the OECD numbers, and saying how well Ireland was doing. He refused to accept that the OECD numbers don't count HSDPA (not sure if they count Clearwire and co type connections) and refused to change his opinion that Ireland was now a world leader in broadband penetration.

Absolutely nothing will change on this in the next 4 years, especially now that government money is down. What little they had planned probably won't even happen now.

bealtine

jor el wrote: »

refused to change his opinion that Ireland was now a world leader in broadband penetration.

Absolutely nothing will change on this in the next 4 years, especially now that government money is down. What little they had planned probably won't even happen now.

That man is demented and shouldn't be left in charge of a solar powered egg
let alone a Department, hopefully he'll be promoted to somewhere useless like foreign affairs or something where he can't do anymore damage.

BarryM

bealtine wrote: »

That man is demented and shouldn't be left in charge of a solar powered egg
let alone a Department, hopefully he'll be promoted to somewhere useless like foreign affairs or something where he can't do anymore damage.

Agreed, of course, BUT, he can compare all sorts of crap data to prove his point(s) as long as that is all there is around..... The recent CSO stuff shows that the anecdotal data we have from posts on Boards.ie for example, are borne out by actual experience. So, we must collect some real data, put it in the hands of the right journos and confront Ryan/ComReg et al with it.

I think that most of the meja knows the data is not right but the subject is too techie for their audiences, or at least the information they are getting is too techie.

Bye, Barry