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Eircom eFibre VDSL/FTTC rollout – plans to reach 1.6m premises by mid 2016
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Praetorian wrote: »People know about that "showcase". It was a best case scenario test. Those sort of speeds will not be widely distributed ever, over cable
Fibre is a different beast altogether. It can do virtually limitless speed.
What do you call "best scenario"?
People said the same a couple of years ago. Cable can never run 100 Meg etc. Yet - here we are...... 0 -
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I don't understand why they're not just selling services on any phase that's complete already!
Every week they wait, it's more and more customers gone to UPC in areas where it's available.
It just seems a bit nuts to sit on the infrastructure that's in place.
What exactly are they waiting for?!
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Apparently Eircom signed a deal with Amazon AWS to sell Cloud services to Irish businesses. The technology churnalists all recycled the press release without ever thinking to find out what it means.
Cockbox I suppose they'll call it.
The Launch of the VDSL network also slipped, it is now a 'hope' in H1 2013 according to the CEO, I believe it was early 2013 not so long ago.
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/item/30622-eircom-says-300k-more-homes/
"it is hoped that the network, which is available to all operators, will deliver services to customers in the first half of next year"
Nobod believes their numbers. Phase 2 is largely built cabs deployed the lot.
http://siliconrepublic.com/comms/item/29365-eircom-names-locations-forEircom said once Phase 2 is completed, fibre will pass 250,000 homes and businesses within the 27 selected areas.
But the press releae last week said.
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/item/30622-eircom-says-300k-more-homes/Eircom has already reached more than 150,000 premises
With mixed message like that even I am confused. It probably means that the areas where eircom did not roll out VDSL units have 100k premises and the more urban areas where they did roll them out contain 150,000 premises. Most of the complete Letterkenny exchange areas is RURAL and has no cabinets at all. Same with Douglas, Shantalla, Mervue , Castlebar Ballina etc.0 -
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I have seen the eircom GIS system output and it is frankly dismal. But how could they lose 100k D-Sides out of 250k D-Sides, in effect. ???
Anyway they always knew they were not doing the rural hinterlands of these suburban exchanges. If eircom 'lost' 100k out of 250k so far then the much vaunted 1m figure will end up at 750k lines and that is before the cutbacks kick in ( or delays or however they explain it) which will put the 750k back into 2015 or 2016.
750k premises is around 1/3 of all the premises in the state, 2.15m comprised of 2m homes ( inc empties) and at a push 150k business premises.
That will leave them huffing and wuffing to catch up with UPC who will probably reach 750k addressable premises for NGB some time in 2014 ( around when MMDS is switched off) . They can already reach 600k premises with minimum 25-50mbits of which around 500k ( they claim) can get 100mbits.
And then eircom will be off into Pat Rabbitte looking for a subsidy to cover the other 1.5m premises, as ever.
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