The Country Is F***ed , Lets Emigrate Now (Part Dix Neuf)

Sponge Bob

Brian Cowen decides to launch economic recovery today .

http://193.178.1.117/attached_files/Pdf%20files/Building%20Ireland%E2%80%99s%20Smart%20Economy.pdf

103 pages .

Page 19 , written by Eamonn Ryan

We will support the continued investment of some €700 million each year by the private sector in the upgrading of our broadband network via a telecoms regulatory framework which has the promotion of competition as a core objective;
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There will be a requirement for open access fibre to be installed, where practicable, in new premises;
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We will roll out the National Broadband Scheme, which will ensure that every part of the country has full access to broadband coverage;
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We will support investment of €70 million in international connectivity through Project Kelvin;
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We will establish a new ‘one stop shop’ to allow better access for telecom operators to fibre optic ducting contained within public infrastructure and mandate the provision of such ‘open access’ ducting in new state projects;
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We will promote Ireland as a world leader in the flexible use of the wireless spectrum including the creation of new ‘ubiquitous’ broadband connectivity zones;
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We will introduce a new terrestrial digital television service in 2009 and secure a digital dividend in 2012 with the switch off of the analogue transmission service;
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We will continue to develop the Digital Hub and the National Digital Research Centre;

Nothing of use there They even reprinted the utterly delusional Ireland is a ' world leader in use of spectrum' rubbish

Sponge Bob

In order to get this turkey over the magic 100 pages they also state the following on pages 94 and 95 :eek:

4.2 Investment in Communications and the Knowledge Society
Broadband is a key enabling infrastructure for the knowledge-intensive services activities on which future prosperity will increasingly depend. We now have over 1 million broadband subscribers, giving penetration levels approximating to EU and OECD averages.

The National Broadband Scheme will ensure 100% national coverage, with full roll out of services by 2010 to areas of the country not currently served by the market.

While investment is mainly a matter for the private sector, there are a number of areas where the State will incentivise or facilitate investment in line with the Consultation Paper on Next Generation Networks published in July 2008 and thereby support the vision in this Action Plan.

Action Points:

The Government will pursue the following approach to ensure continued upgrading of our broadband quality and coverage:
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We will support the continued investment of some €700 million each year by the private sector in upgrading our broadband network via a telecoms regulatory framework which has the promotion of competition as a core objective;
•
There will be a requirement for open access fibre to be installed, where practicable, in new premises;
•
We will roll out the National Broadband Scheme, which will ensure that every part of the country has full access to broadband coverage;
•
We will support investment of €70 million in international connectivity through Project Kelvin;
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We will establish a new ‘one stop shop’ to allow better access for telecom operators to fibre optic ducting contained within public infrastructure and mandate the provision of such ‘open access’ ducting in new state projects;
•
We will promote Ireland as a world leader in the flexible use of the wireless spectrum including the creation of new ‘ubiquitous’ broadband connectivity zones;
•
We will introduce a new terrestrial digital television service in 2009 and secure a digital dividend in 2012 with the switch off of the analogue transmission service;
• We will continue to develop the Digital Hub and the National Digital Research Centre.

one whole page of copy and paste, thanks for obviously caring and understanding Eamonn

Sponge Bob

On page 16 Eamonn equates cycling to National Recovery , Jesus wept:(

We are pursuing national cycling and walking strategies and a cycling package for Dublin

On page 84 we hear , surprisingly, that

We are pursuing national cycling and walking strategies and a cycling package for Dublin

On page 87

Introduction of a flat rate levy on parking and tax incentives for promoting cycling to work

In fact cycling is mentioned 7 times where national fibre networks are not mentioned at all

watty

I'd need a trailer for my laptop and 30 years off to be able to cycle work.

Better buses and train frequencies and routes and late at night for reducing Drink Driving.

We arn't Dutch.

Sponge Bob

More sh1te .

Page 14

We will pursue the objective of equipping second-level schools with 100Mb per second broadband connectivity

Note that primary schools are dropped and that there is no guarantee that secondary schools will get 100mbits ....they are "pursuing" an "objective" instead of installing it .

Page 75

We will pursue the objective of equipping second-level schools with 100Mb per second broadband connectivity

We will publish a new Knowledge Society Strategy by mid-2009 with an action plan for the use of new high speed broadband networks to further our enterprise, educational and environmental objectives.

What NEW high speed broadband networks ??

The only one in the country is the ESB network finished in 2002/2003 and some stranded MAN fibre rings lying nationwide, unlit , together with some desultory franments like the BT Western Digital Fibre....installed in 2000

What "Knowledge Society Strategy" , who is behind this bar Eamon Ryan and some official jobsworths ...who will do nothing about anything .

Page 94

While investment is mainly a matter for the private sector, there are a number of areas where the State will incentivise or facilitate investment in line with the Consultation Paper on Next Generation Networks published in July 2008 and thereby support the vision in this Action Plan.

They must mean THIS consultation surely .

In there are 5 approaches of which one or more are supposed to be selected These 'approaches' are completely unfunded, they were unfunded before this document and remain unfunded .

Meanwhile eircon is smelling around for €500m for VDSL2 rollout in the big cities

watty

This from March 2004 is worth reading to show how much Government thinking has changed.
http://broadband.oireachtas.ie/

I presume you have a saved copy, Sponge Bob?

bealtine

watty wrote: »

Government thinking

Surely that's an oxymoron ?

Sponge Bob

That Oireachtas Report in 2004 ( thanks Watty) and the Civil Service Report released in the preparation for New Connections in March 2002 said all of this , step by step .

Yesterdays thing is a watered down version of the 2002 document .

Ryan was even on that Oireachtas Committee the useless thooleramawn !

sceptre

Sponge Bob quoting them in power wrote: »

The National Broadband Scheme will ensure 100% national coverage, with full roll out of services by 2010 to areas of the country not currently served by the market.

That isn't all that different to what they said in the 2002 manifesto. Except it was to be done by 2005 then.

(oh, you pretty much already said that just one post above)