IrelandOffline Quarterly Report Q4 2011

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IrelandOffline Quarterly Report Q4 2011

http://irelandoffline.org/2011/12/irelandoffline-quarterly-report-q4-2011/

Press Release:
http://irelandoffline.org/2011/12/ireland%E2%80%99s-broadband-performance-slumps/

bealtine

http://www.businessworld.ie/livenews.htm?a=2841797
'Irish broadband worse than Vietnam'

Thursday, December 08 12:21:12

Ireland's broadband performance is worse than Vietnam, Moldova and Mongolia with this country slipping to 53rd place in the world with an average download speed of 7.86 Mbps, according to consumer pressure group, IrelandOffLine.

Ireland has plunged a catastrophic eight places in the download world rankings in this quarter alone, it said, citing statistics from global independent compiler, Ookla Netindex.

Ireland is the fifth worst in Europe for under-performance against service promise and the third most expensive in Europe in the service cost per Megabit per second.

In Quarter 4 2011 Ireland was 53rd in the World for Download Speeds and 24th out of 27 in the EU. It was 71st in the World for Upload Speed and 24th out of 27 in the EU. Ireland is 23rd in the World up for Quality and 18th of 25 in the EU and was 53rd in the World for Promise and 23 out of 27 in the EU. Ireland rates 43rd in the World in cost per Mbps and 25 out of 27 in the EU.

"IrelandOffline notes that since our new Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte assumed office in late Q1 2011 the improvements to Ireland's Broadband Performance rapidly levelled off and our performance has now gone into full reverse with a drop of eight places in download speeds during the past quarter. We feel that Minister Rabbitte has had quite long enough, nine months in fact, to learn his Departmental 'Excuse Book' off by heart and now the necessity for strong action is required to stem our inevitable slide," the group said.

"The Urban Rural divide as implied by the gap between UPC and eircom continues to grow. The average UPC customer enjoyed three times the speed of the average eircom customer in Q4 2010 and the performance gap in Q4 2011 now shows UPC is on average over four times faster than eircom.. This improvement in cable broadband speeds kept Ireland largely static in the international tables over much of the year but can no longer deliver a sufficient performance to keep us static in international comparison tables," IrelandOffLine said.

bealtine

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/comms/item/24903-ireland-53rd-in-the-world/

The latest Ookla Net Index shows that Irish broadband speeds in terms of downloads are 53rd in the world, leaving the country trailing developing nations like Mongolia, Moldova and Vietnam for digital performance.

Results were obtained by analysing test data between Nov 8, 2011 and Dec 7, 2011. Tests from 1,261,944 unique IPs have been taken in Ireland and of 8,134,094 total tests, 242,754 were used for the current Index.

The results show that Ireland is 71st in the world for upload speeds and 24th in the EU.

One of the main features of Q4 report is the yawning gap between broadband performance in urban areas versus performance in rural areas. Interestingly, main towns in Ireland are getting better speeds than major cities.

Towns with between 10,000 and 30,000 are now vastly outperforming cities, which are the main employment centres.

The fastest speeds in Ireland were recorded in Dungarvan, County Waterford, where average speeds of 23Mbps are being delivered, followed by Athlone with 17.4Mbps and Swords with 15.2Mbps.

Dublin city is in 13th place with 9.4Mbps on average while Cork has 20.3Mbps on average.

IrelandOffline chairman Eamon Wallace says this performance plunge puts Ireland below Moldova,Vietnam, Mongolia since 2010,Papua New Guinea, Ghanaand Kyrgyzstan.

“These are countries in transition or developing economies, unlike Ireland which aspires to be in the top tier of countries for internet access. Patently this will not be the case as our performance is falling quarter by quarter.”

Ireland’s top ten cities/towns and download speeds

1. Athlone 17.48 Mbps

2. Swords 15.12 Mbps

3. Celbridge 14.12 Mbps

4. Waterford 13.60 Mbps

5. Clonmel 12.35 Mbps

6. Lucan 12.24 Mbps

7. Greystones 11.89 Mbps

8. Maynooth 11.78 Mbps

9. Tallaght 11.62 Mbps

10. Mullingar 11.11 Mbps

John Kennedy

bealtine

http://csrireland.com/2011/12/ireland-53rd-in-the-world-for-download-speeds-new-report

Results were obtained by analysing test data between 8 November, 2011 and 7 December 2011. Tests from 1,261,944 unique IPs have been taken in Ireland and of 8,134,094 total tests, 242,754 were used for the current Index.

The results show that Ireland is 71st in the world for upload speeds and 24th in the EU.

One of the main features of the Q4 report is the yawning gap between broadband performance in urban areas versus performance in rural areas. interestingly, main towns in Ireland are getting better speeds than major cities.

Towns with between 10,000 and 30,000 people are now vastly outperforming cities, which are the main employment centres.

The fastest speeds in Ireland were recorded in Dungarvan, co Waterford, where average speeds of 23Mbps are being delivered, followed by Athlone, co Westmeath, with 17.4Mbps and Swords, co Dublin, with 15.2Mbps.

Dublin City is in 13th place, with 9.4Mbps on average, while Cork has 20.3Mbps, on average.

IrelandOffline chairman Eamon Wallace says this performance plunge puts Ireland below Moldova, Vietnam, Mongolia since 2010, Papua, new Guinea, Ghana and Kyrgyzstan.

“These are countries in transition or developing economies, unlike Ireland, which aspires to be in the top tier of countries for internet access. Patently, this will not be the case as our performance is falling quarter by quarter.”

Ireland’s top 10 cities/towns and download speeds

1. Athlone 17.48 Mbps

2. Swords 15.12 Mbps

3. Celbridge 14.12 Mbps

4. Waterford 13.60 Mbps

5. Clonmel 12.35 Mbps

6. Lucan 12.24 Mbps

7. Greystones 11.89 Mbps

8. Maynooth 11.78 Mbps

9. Tallaght 11.62 Mbps

10. Mullingar 11.11 Mbps