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National Broadband Scheme costing govt more than expected

  • 19-09-2011 05:13PM
    #1
    breathn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 483 ✭✭


    I was just watching the TV3 news at 5:30 and on it they said:
    "The National Broadband Scheme is going to cost more than expected because of a lack of subscribers"

    Does anyone have ANY information about this at all?


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  • #2
    funnyname
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,815 ✭✭✭funnyname


    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0919/breaking39.html


  • #3
    ToadVine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 659 ✭✭✭ToadVine


    funnyname wrote: »
    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0919/breaking39.html

    From the article ...

    "The report shows that almost all scheme locations tested by 3 Ireland have download speeds over the required minimum of 1.6 Mbps. The overall average speed was 3.5 Mbps with 11 per cent of the locations tested having download speeds greater than 5 Mbps."

    What a surprise!! That testing by 3 themselves shows that almost all schemes reach minimum speed. All those people complaining on here, the talk to 3 forum and IrelandOffline must be imagining they have crappy dial-up speeds and woeful customer service from 3.

    The NBS continues to be a total and absolute joke.


  • #4
    clohamon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,831 ✭✭✭clohamon


    AFAIK virtually all the money has been paid out already and the division of the subsidy by the number of connections is just an accounting exercise.


  • #5
    William Powell
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,479 ✭✭✭William Powell


    However, while it was envisaged that as many as 126,000 subscribers would sign up for the scheme, just 35,500 consumers have availed of it.

    I just can't get my head around how a really crap network could have been even worse? Its bad enough with 35,500 nbs consumers so what would it have been like if over 3 times that number signed up?


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