UK-based Irish tech company cannot move to Arranmore

clohamon

"An Irish learning and entertainment company currently based in London cannot move the business to their hometown as there is no internet broadband connection in the area."

"Co-founders Conor Murphy, from Glanmire in Cork, and Neil Gallagher, from Arranmore in Donegal, said they cannot provide employment in the area because there is no broadband connection on the island."

"The island is still connected to the mainland with an old telephone exchange that is incompatible with a broadband connection," Conor Murphy told independent.ie.

http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/web-summit/lack-of-broadband-means-ukbased-irish-tech-company-cannot-move-operations-home-30726516.html

Mayo Yid

It's an island, there are plenty if parts of the mainland that have no real broadband either

hfallada

They are hardly going to be the new Facebook through. What young person will happily move to an island in an already remote part of the country? Are clients going to trek to the island?

I have a feeling a lot of business stories like thisin the papers are mainly free advertising

watty

Irish learning and entertainment company

Facebook OTH is a self exposure and Internet Parasite Walled Garden abusing users with Adverts. Doesn't sound to me like they want to be Facebook.

darth_maul

clohamon wrote: »

"An Irish learning and entertainment company currently based in London cannot move the business to their hometown as there is no internet broadband connection in the area."

"Co-founders Conor Murphy, from Glanmire in Cork, and Neil Gallagher, from Arranmore in Donegal, said they cannot provide employment in the area because there is no broadband connection on the island."

"The island is still connected to the mainland with an old telephone exchange that is incompatible with a broadband connection," Conor Murphy told independent.ie.

http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/web-summit/lack-of-broadband-means-ukbased-irish-tech-company-cannot-move-operations-home-30726516.html

This is bull, they could easily get a wireless 150mb connection from NWEWN, the school on the island has 100mb connection.
The is even a mast on the island that can supply 20/5 mb connection.

Slutmonkey57b

So, the company was founded in London, is based in London, the two owners have families which are established in London (possibly even with children born in London), and it's ... "Irish"?

Their gripe is that people from rural Ireland can't get an opportunity to work for them, eh? If only there were somewhere they could have based their company that wasn't a) in another country entirely, and b) the most expensive city in the world to live in for anyone who isn't an oligarch or a corrupt banker.

I suppose they'll just have to continue basing their company in one of the world's largest talent pools, instead of the huge mine of gaelgoirs from Donegal who are burning up the classrooms of MIT and Cambridge, eh?

This is an absolute nonsense story. If either of these people really believed Donegal was a viable place to start a business they'd have done it there in the first place.