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Vodafone FTTH salesforce jump the gun.

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  • 27-08-2015 3:38pm
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    clohamon
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    Are Vodafone and SIRO mutually tied agents?

    SIRO is allegedly a wholesale-only service but it seems some of its retailers are more equal than others.
    One of Ireland’s leading communications providers is investigating attempts made to sell their new proposed high-speed fibre broadband in rural areas, when in fact the only place to receive the [service] is the Cavan Town urban area.
    http://www.anglocelt.ie/news/roundup/articles/2015/08/26/4047110-broadband-gaff-by-vodafone-in-cavan/

    This is the second incident of Vodafone seeming to have the inside track on SIRO deployments. Another unplanned excursion outside the published timetable involved a SIRO/Vodafone hookup in Skibbereen.

    It’s probably time for the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission to have a look at the any agreements between ESB/Vodafone/SIRO so as to ensure that all retailers have an equal chance of supplying SIRO services; after all it took an Act of the Oireachtas to allow SIRO to exist at all.

    With ComReg having decided to leave governance of the the NBP intervention area to the powerless DCENR, retailers who are not as well-connected with SIRO as Vodafone, might have a hard time competing.


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