UPC Broadband in Bray "by Christmas"

tomk

Just in case anyone's interested..

Made my usual monthly call to UPC to try and get broadband, expecting the usual "no it's not in your area, and we've no idea when it will be". but this time they changed the second part of the response to ".. but it will be there by Christmas."

Sounds good - anyone know if I should get excited, and actually believe it?

My crappy DSL (wont go faster than 3Mbps) contract is up in November, so if this happens, I might actually start believing in Santa again.

wicklow eoin

I wouldnt hold your breath, i live in Wicklow Town and have been promised digital here for the past 5 years.............still waiting.......evry time i ring they say before christmas.

I even asked the General Manager of upc on the right hook on news talk when? the answer before christmas...........that was summer 2008.

Just after ringing them again, in fairness to the girl i was talking too, she said they might be starting sometime next year

Sponge Bob

ondafly

Spongebob - hard to make out from your map - but is strawberry beds/chapelizod getting NTL BB anytime soon ?

Sponge Bob

That general area is a white island like Bray , so that is no! If they crack on at the 2009 rate ye should all be done ( in Dublin) by end 2011 or early 2012 .

UPC have upgraded about 60% of their customers to Broadband capable although some of those were done before UPC bought NTL and Chorus.

I reckon they will have upgraded the lot in about 4 years time, end 2013.

BlackWizard

Told me that Palmerstown will be done before x-mas too.

Lying basterds.

bullpost

They're doing the Dun Laoghaire area at the moment. Lots of roadworks and chorus signs.

MackQ

tomk wrote: »

Just in case anyone's interested..

Sounds good - anyone know if I should get excited, and actually believe it?

They told me 6 months (5 years ago)

Sponge Bob

bullpost wrote: »

They're doing the Dun Laoghaire area at the moment. Lots of roadworks and chorus signs.

Much of Dun Laoghaire is marked yellow on that map so they are SUPPOSED to be digging and fibring around there in order to launch in 2009 sometime like the map says.

In fairness to UPC they do what they announce in public but their call centre in Limerick will say anything to get the punters off the phone . UPC never announced they were upgrading Bray , did they ??

Has anyone seen any digging around Palmerstown/Bray/Chapelizod and new green boxes at street corners , bet not

tomk

Thanks for the clarification, Sponge Bob. I wasn't aware they had published a roadmap, and I got the idea from somewhere that they didn't announce in any particular area until the upgrade was actually complete.

TODO - remove monthly UPC phone call from todo list.

ondafly

Sponge Bob wrote: »

Has anyone seen any digging around Palmerstown/Bray/Chapelizod and new green boxes at street corners , bet not

well there was 3 NTL/UPC vans in the village of Chapelizod last week all day, and they were focusing on the house at the corner opposite the old bookies, but other than that nothing. Like the above poster I was told a year ago that BB would be available by 1st Quarter 2009

I'll be on the look out for green boxes for the next 4 years so :pac:

Sponge Bob

tomk wrote: »

Thanks for the clarification, Sponge Bob. I wasn't aware they had published a roadmap, and I got the idea from somewhere that they didn't announce in any particular area until the upgrade was actually complete.

This is the first one they ever published and you are totally correct about their announcment policy in the past .

The reason why they have changed their minds is threefold.

1. They know eircom cannot compete at the high end. eircom is rolling out ADSL2+ which will mean most CITY exchanges will support up to 24mbits by end 2009 which means widespread availability of around 10-15mbits in the wild on DSL

UPC are comfortably at 20mbits and heading for 40-50 in the next 6 months . eircom announced VDSL rollouts in 2006 to flummox UPC but that project is dead in the water .

2. Eircom are aggressively pushing bundles. These have 12 month contracts so UPC are trying to ensure that eircom do not send their salesmen door to door in areas where vans are spotted ( eg Dun Laoghaire) with 'deals' to lock these customers up for a year.

3. UPC are gaining customers on price, they are still growing ( at less than 10% a quarter) whereas eircom have been losing DSL customers this year . UPC base 1mbit is only around the cost of eircom line rental even without a TV package and cheaper than line rental if you take TV . That is why they push 'including line rental' in theie ads...they never had line rental

BigMoose

wicklow eoin wrote:

i live in Wicklow Town and have been promised digital here for the past 5 years

I assume they were just teasing you?! Although I would be very pleased to see it come that way, I cant imagine it likely any time soon. Mind you, someone was digging trenches in the road from Ashford to Rathnew fairly recently, wont get my hopes up that it was UPC though! That said, by digital I assume they didn't mean MMDS which is available....

brophis

The lower most yellow area is Shankill which they're digging at the moment. Bray will be after that 'd imagine