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eircom Announces Plans to Extend its Fibre Broadband Footprint to 1.4 million Homes

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#32 18-01-2014 10:05pm
watty

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There is no Mobile BB. Only Mobile Internet. There is unlikely to ever be Mobile BB, as that would be at least 4x the cost if not x10 the cost of fibre to everyone personally.

1000m is the "break even" compared to ADSL2+ about 8Mbps to 15Mbps depending on line quality. You need to be < 500m for a noticeable improvement and <200m for fast Broadband and <100m for close to FTTP speeds.

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#33 18-01-2014 10:41pm
JohnC.

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My exchange doesn't even have 2+, so presumably it'll still be a noticeable upgrade at about 750m from it.

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