IoffL gets plug in Dail

bealtine

Yeah famous at last<g> IrelandOffline gets a mention in the Dail in relation to "cloud computing"

http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2011-11-22.61.0#g73.2

clohamon

Very good piece from Conor Brophy on today's Drivetime (about 16:40). IoffL Quarterly report and $/Mb/s statistics given coverage.

http://irelandoffline.org/2012/03/irelandoffline-quarterly-report-q1-2012/
http://irelandoffline.org/2012/03/irelandoffline-quarterly-report-q1-2012-pr/

clohamon

You can hear this on the 'RTE Radio Player'

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/ (player is on top right)

search on 'Drivetime' and look for Wednesday's show.

The report starts at 17:15

bealtine

clohamon wrote: »

You can hear this on the 'RTE Radio Player'

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/ (player is on top right)

search on 'Drivetime' and look for Wednesday's show.

The report starts at 17:15

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/comms/item/26237-ireland-has-second-highest/

watty

"The urban-rural divide continues to expand exponentially, rural dwellers are being left behind with no action being taken to address this divide, and where recent regulatory decisions are unlikely to address the matter," Wallace said.

“The reliance on 3G as a solution is clearly flawed. Any potential LTE solution is being mis-regulated out to the margins. Bandwidth (spectrum) is like a pipe, the more bandwidth the higher the speeds can be delivered over the 'pipe'.

“The norm in most jurisdictions is for 20Mhz wide channels through allocation and sharing, however, ComReg want minuscule 5Mhz channels for LTE and will not permit RAN Sharing.

“This fragmented spectrum will only allow LTE to deliver similar performance to 3G today, without the worst of the the cell sector disappearing (shrinking) effect at night. The only solution, in rural areas, is to mandate one provider to build the infrastructure and all other mobile providers can then use this infrastructure.

“This policy should deliver something akin to a modern broadband service for rural dwellers. This sharing solution is known as RAN Sharing and is an urgent requirement in most of Ireland right now," Wallace said.

Well, not akin to UPC 20Mbps to 100Mbps. But Akin to DSL if there are enough masts. But only with 20MHz channels and RAN.

Sadly the Government doesn't decide Policy on this but "Sir Humphrey". We are practically wasting our time doing stuff for Ioffl. Instead of managing Spectrum Ofcom (UK), FCC (USA) and Comreg (IRL) are only interested in short term once off "revenue" income from selling the most licences at highest price.

bealtine

watty wrote: »

Well, not akin to UPC 20Mbps to 100Mbps. But Akin to DSL if there are enough masts. But only with 20MHz channels and RAN.

Sadly the Government doesn't decide Policy on this but "Sir Humphrey". We are practically wasting our time doing stuff for Ioffl. Instead of managing Spectrum Ofcom (UK), FCC (USA) and Comreg (IRL) are only interested in short term once off "revenue" income from selling the most licences at highest price.

The infrastructure point is a given we'd need masts on just about every hill to provide anything akin to UPC speeds even with RAN sharing.
IoffL is up against the vast marketing promises and resources of the mobile telcos with their wild unverifiable claims. It may seem that IoffL are Luddites and arguing against the future growth of "broadband" but nothing could be further from the truth. IoffL are just pointing out the truth.

It does seem rather pointless to be making good technical arguments and pointing out the fallacies of the mobile industry. The decisions seem to have been made before the consultations were even issued or talks entered into. The marketing bs seems to have persuaded the "Sir Humphreys" already and the Taskforce members have been stacked to make sure the solution is mobile midband and not the solution Ireland needs which is ubiquitous fibre.

The arguments still need to be made though and hopefully IoffL can continue to make them with their limited budget.

clohamon

bealtine wrote: »

with their limited budget.

Money????....you never told us you had money!!!

IrelandOffline_

clohamon wrote: »

Money????....you never told us you had money!!!

We spent the years budget on a pint, a packet of straws and a bag of crisps, We also bought a stamp...