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The Broadband Question

  • 02-02-2011 11:44am
    #1
    d'Oracle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,025 ✭✭✭


    (Mods, feel free to move this to the GE11 thread, but I reckon its a bit broader than just an election issue.)

    http://digital21.ie/news/item/785

    So Eamonn Gilmore reckons that we need a new quango and a clone of the BER system for Broadband.
    Also an extra regulator/government office to encourage the uptake of a buzzword for something that is already quite well utilised.

    I'm loosing faith with this.
    This is a definitive example of the "same thinking" argument that I have been trying to argue against. A policy picked from what sort of worked for other issues in the last govt.
    This is too big an economic factor to half handle. Especially after the Digital Hub nonsense of the late 90's early 00's.

    Your thoughts?
    Anyone know what FG are planning?


Comments

  • #2
    ei.sdraob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,376 ✭✭✭ei.sdraob


    somewhat related


  • #3
    d'Oracle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,025 ✭✭✭d'Oracle


    Somewhat?

    Thanks and sorry.
    Although it does have a political element that is less technical than that.


  • #4
    ei.sdraob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,376 ✭✭✭ei.sdraob


    Yeh the thread over in infrastructure is of a more technical nature :)


  • #5
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Well it doesnt serve much point to discuss technical matters in layman or political terms. Some, but not a lot. It's a technocratic issue in just about every sense of the word.


  • #6
    d'Oracle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,025 ✭✭✭d'Oracle


    Overheal wrote: »
    Well it doesnt serve much point to discuss technical matters in layman or political terms. Some, but not a lot. It's a technocratic issue in just about every sense of the word.

    I disagree.
    Discussing the merits of rollout and the technical ins and outs of the matter are one thing.

    But Setting up a new Quango, adding the certificate are and creating a new public authority to do this are political issues.

    In fact, the fact that this is part of the manifesto of a party contesting an election, is a political issue.

    I would strongly contest that discussing the issue of creating extra governmental bodies and reapplying a fundamentally broken mechanism used in another matter (this cert is basically an attempt to clone BER, which did not serve the purpose intended) is very much of use.

    It would not serve much point to ignore something like our cripplingly poor internet quality because we don't understand the technicalities. If it did, we would have to restrict all talk of the economic breakdown to an economics forum, because most people have no clue of the technicalities of that either.


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