Ireland Makes it to Number One In The World

Sponge Bob

http://irelandoffline.org/

We are now officially the Most Expensive Country in the World in which to rent a telephone line and make a few local calls. We are the 17th most expensive country in the World for prepaid mobile phone calls. 150 countries were surveyed in all.

Thanks to Thraktor for digging this beauty up.

As Ireland has the Worlds Most Expensive telephone lines .....over 10% higher than the second most expensive which is Norway .....we are unsurprisingly scoring quite highly on Mobile Internet where we are 7th in the world as people dump their landlines en masse .

Fixed telephony Ireland $42.20 . Next highest is Norway on $37.60 , over 10% less than Irish costs .

Norway, however, is over 5 times bigger than Ireland and with a similar population .

They will supply you, no problem , with ADSL broadband even if you live north of the Artic Circle whereas you cannot get it reliably within 20 miles of Dublin ...even now.

IrelandOffline_

Full url to the PR http://url.ie/1b4j

Rattlehead_ie

Interesting news seeing as earlier this week Eircom announced to a Joint Oireachtas Communications Committee that they didn't have the funds to roll out the next stage of their broadband scheme and also that their owners Babcock & Brown and in to administration

Babcock and Brown in Voluntary Administration

Eircom report to Committee

d22ontour

Sponge Bob wrote: »

They will supply you, no problem , with ADSL broadband even if you live north of the Artic Circle whereas you cannot get it reliably within 20 miles of Dublin ...even now.

That tells us how badly our countries infrastructure is and that won't change anytime soon.

3g broadband is the future ....

watty

... of Mobile Access. Not Broadband.

d22ontour

Indeed but apparently around 80% of the landmass of Ireland can't get proper broadband are stuck with the mobile alternative which isn't actual broadband as we all know.

3g is about all they can get if they have line of sight.

:eek:

DeepBlue

Shocking but, alas, not surprising :mad:.

The story was also in Saturday's Examiner: Ireland most costly nation for telephone line rental.

However ComReg don't seem to see much of a problem :rolleyes:.

A spokesman for ComReg, the telecommunications regulator, said line rental is only one part of telephone costs.
He said he would dispute the figures and believed Ireland was not the most expensive country in the world for line rental. “The costs of telephone calls have been falling for the last 10 years,” he said.

Xcellor

Erm but we are talking about line rental not the cost of calls... Excellent that our call costs have come down but even before you pick up a phone you're already paying

Isaac702

Considering Comreg themselves have tried repeatedly to lower line rental several times I find that comment ridiculous. They need to get themselves in gear and actually make changes. The providers will always dispute changes they will take a cut off there profit margins.

sexmag

line rental here 25.47 euro,dont confuse people wit doller signs and the reason we still pay that is 4 technicians to go around and constantly update and repair lines so people can rexieve broadband and things of such nature so until the country is wireless like tokyo we will still have to pay it and im not botherd

Isaac702

sexmag wrote: »

line rental here 25.47 euro,dont confuse people wit doller signs

That's great would you like me to convert the figures to euro and still show that we are the most expensive country in the world for line rental.

sexmag wrote: »

and the reason we still pay that is 4 technicians to go around and constantly update and repair lines so people can rexieve broadband and things of such nature

I am not disputing that the money does go to paying for technicians and "upgrades" to the network however for our money the service that is being provided is not adequate. Our government is marketing Ireland as a SMART economy and businesses establishing here needs low cost telecommunications to be able to operate in the global marketplace. This goes for large multinationals (Who can afford dedicated lines) and smaller entrepreneurs (Who can not). The high cost of telecommunications is stifling innovation and development in this country.

glic83

why is it upc arent allowed to do broadband over their mmds system

watty

It's only got spectrum for the TV delivery. It's like asking why isn't RTE allowed to do Broadband via Spur hill UHF TV.

Broadband needs a different kind of wireless system to TV broadcast. It's not a question of the band. MMDS is just like UHF TV, except at 2600MHz instead of 600MHz (UHF group A/B).

watty

sexmag wrote: »

line rental here 25.47 euro,dont confuse people wit doller signs and the reason we still pay that is 4 technicians to go around and constantly update and repair lines so people can rexieve broadband and things of such nature so until the country is wireless like tokyo we will still have to pay it and im not botherd

Our lines are 10 times worse than in countries where they pay less. The money doesn't go on maintenance, but paying of debt the purchasers took out to buy eircom.

Kenno90

I can't say I'm surprised to hear that

glic83

watty wrote: »

It's only got spectrum for the TV delivery. It's like asking why isn't RTE allowed to do Broadband via Spur hill UHF TV.

Broadband needs a different kind of wireless system to TV broadcast. It's not a question of the band. MMDS is just like UHF TV, except at 2600MHz instead of 600MHz (UHF group A/B).

i though upc/chorus had tested bb over their mmds system and worked grand but got turned down for the license