ndex ranks Ireland near bottom for broadband value in new survey from the EU

bealtine

Ireland is 23rd of 28 in new survey from the EU for value

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/index-ranks-ireland-near-bottom-for-broadband-value-682735.html

Probably much worse as it's likely many package are below spec and statistics of availability inflated.

So no surprises there then, all this is down to the idiots in Comreg that can't understand that their regulatory regime is a total failure and the very same regime keeps costs astronomically high and creates a massive barrier to broadband takeup

watty

You misunderstand the purpose of Regulation

1) The concept is that competition some how automatically always benefits Consumer.
This isn't always true.

2) Achievement of (1) is purely by ensuring a level playing field for large companies. Nothing else is important to competiton in this view.
This is nonsense.

So instead of stopping Anglo Irish or Irish Nationwide, the others encouraged to copy them.
Instead of excluding Anglo Irish & Nationwide from bank Guarantee scheme they only excluded foreign owned institutions, such as RBS owned Ulster Bank.

So Mobile operators are allowed to miss-sell and cross subsidise data to detriment of fixed services and over charge for voice as they all do it. (Competition is thus working to give really cheap mobile data).

Nothing was done 2008 to present day about mis-selling of incompatible TVs.

GSM is allowed to be turned off with only 6 months notice to regulator. Nothing will be done about GSM only phones (e.g. big button phones for partially sighted or rhumatic people) in use or still in shops.

It's a pure civil service mentality.

Soft Touch Regulation which is why 29 of 30 biggest Internet companies have EU or EMEA HQ here and why many moving ALL non-USA operations to be in technically in Ireland. The Data Commissioner, Consumer, Financial Regulator, Comreg etc won't interfere unless they are unfair to each other.