Ireland - Infrastructure can't cope - 33rd on gloal scale (RTE)

crawler

Future broadband capabilities questioned
Friday, 12 September 2008 16:18

A new report has claimed Ireland's existing broadband infrastructure will not be able to cope with the arrival of the next generation of internet applications and services.

Researchers at Oxford University looked at the capability of connections in 42 countries to examine how they are equipped to benefit from services like high-definition video and other enhanced content offerings.

The survey puts Ireland's connection speeds and capacity at 33rd place on the global table.

Sweden and Holland had the best performing broadband connections in Europe but were still found to be behind the required standard for next generation services.

The report says Japan is the only country that is already equipped to handle the roll out of these services.

The authors say this bears out the Japanese commitment to investing in broadband infrastructure from an early stage.

They say there is a significant link between a nation's broadband quality and its advancement as a knowledge economy.

The study recommends that policy makers need to focus on providing enhanced connection speeds in the coming years.

It states that countries without high-quality broadband will not be able to take full advantage of the next wave of productivity, collaboration and entertainment that can be gained from the web

Sponge Bob

Amongst the worst of a bad lot we are

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080912-study-japan-set-for-broadband-future-everyone-else-screwed.html

Japan set for broadband future; everyone else screwed

The group said that over half of the 42 countries studied enjoyed connections that performed well enough to deliver a consistent experience for common web apps available today, but that Japan was the only country that is "future-ready." And the future, in this case, isn't very far away—the study looked at what Internet users are expected to be doing within the next three to five years

Again it is time to revisit the inevitable and to do something serious about the 5 big cities while also ensuring that everyone has 'something' in the 1-2mbit range .

The best we can hope for is that we are adequate in spots .

eircoms much lauded VDSL2 rollout , announced almost 2 years back by Pierre for the 5 big cities , is dead in the water from what I can see .

If you wanna be really depressed the full survey is here ( short and long versions for those on dialup or not)

http://www.sbs.ox.ac.uk/news/media/Press+Releases/New+High-Quality+Broadband+Study.htm

Currently we are a netch ahead of Poland Turkey and New Zealand but behind :eek: Greece :eek: , Estonia naturally and also behind Bulgaria Hungary Romania and the Czech Republic which is quite frightening to be honest as we are quite a distance behind them right now

I expect Eamonn Ryan presently on his hind legs in the Dáil talking platitudinous sh1te and lying fulsomely on the topic rather than doing anything useful or long termist .

Solair

Great, we're actually below the 'today's level' marker!!

Woohoo Go Fianna Fáil !!!

It's some achievement for one of the wealthiest countries in Europe!