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27% of Irish homes only have 1mb to 3mb broadband

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    Gonzo
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    going by that over 50% of Irish broadband connections are between 1 and 7meg. Most of that is to do with the urban vs rural digital divide and rural makes up a large part of Ireland in general. Hopefully that will start to change over the next year because those results are just embarrassing.


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    tsue921i8wljb3
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    That is a pretty terrible article. No mention of the method or numbers polled in their "survey". What "big towns" have eir ignored in their FTTC rollout, which is widely seen as one of the fastest rollouts of it's type globally?

    Then the facile dig with the "haven't the Brits got it much better than us". This despite the fact that in the latest Akamai report the UK is in 14th place globally (Avg 13 Mbps) with Ireland in 18th (Avg 12.4 Mbps). Hardly a massive discrepancy.

    It also ignores the fact that there are advanced plans to tender for a probable nationwide fibre network, something that the UK have no such plans for.

    Lazy, uninformed journalism.


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    Gonzo
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    Eva Microscopic Significant wrote: »
    That is a pretty terrible article. No mention of the method or numbers polled in their "survey". What "big towns" have eir ignored in their FTTC rollout, which is widely seen as one of the fastest rollouts of it's type globally?

    Then the facile dig with the "haven't the Brits got it much better than us". This despite the fact that in the latest Akamai report the UK is in 14th place globally (Avg 13 Mbps) with Ireland in 18th (Avg 12.4 Mbps). Hardly a massive discrepancy.

    It also ignores the fact that there are advanced plans to tender for a probable nationwide fibre network, something that the UK have no such plans for.

    Lazy, uninformed journalism.

    all very true, every town in Ireland and many villages have FTTC at this point. While internet speeds outside of our towns and cities are really bad they are about to be improved very soon.


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    damienirel
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    Gonzo wrote: »
    all very true, every town in Ireland and many villages have FTTC at this point. While internet speeds outside of our towns and cities are really bad they are about to be improved very soon.

    We suck at internet... 20th outta 28 - and we sell ourselves as a tech nation such BS!
    This is down to some severe lack of foresight by any of our governments.

    http://www.independent.ie/business/t...-34550542.html

    Really hope something is done we're starting to look like a third world country on this.


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    Fogmatic
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    And that's the percentage of Irish homes in towns, villages and cities...


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    ED E
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    damienirel wrote: »
    We suck at internet... 20th outta 28 - and we sell ourselves as a tech nation such BS!
    This is down to some severe lack of foresight by any of our governments.

    Totally bloody wrong. If you take avg speed/population density we're leading the charge. Our 12.4 is like 40Mb in the UK when balanced.

    If it weren't for ribbon development we'd be way better off too.


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    Charles Babbage
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    ED E wrote: »
    Totally bloody wrong. If you take avg speed/population density we're leading the charge. Our 12.4 is like 40Mb in the UK when balanced.

    That's an excuse, it doesn't change the speeds.


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    Gonzo
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    It's sad to admit this but if you take away Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and most provincial towns from the equation we have over 1.5 million people left sitting on overpriced, under performing mobile dongles, satellite broadband with download limits tighter than Donald's brainwaves and 20 year old DSL technology.

    We have a long way to go before we can be proud of a nation at delivering usable internet solutions outside of our towns and cities.

    Ireland is unique in that a large percentage of the population lives outside of towns and cities and they can't just be all forced to live in cities to avail of proper internet, we have to bring the internet to the people, bit late trying to fix the planning laws at this stage. Ireland is what it is and that's it.

    The NBP has been delayed yet again for god knows how long, its time to hang our heads in shame.

    Eir plans to rollout FTTH to 300,000 homes/premises in areas starving for usable internet, right now that is our only hope. Even if that works out there are still another 500,000 homes/premises left unaccounted for till 2019 and beyond. We can't be compared to any other European country, we have to accept it and deal with it.


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    ED E
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    Charles Babbage wrote: »
    That's an excuse, it doesn't change the speeds.

    Its not, its reality. Fragmented populations cost N x as much to service than clustered ones. South Korea has amazing broadband, 1Gb for €25/mo, but thats because they all live in big cities. Ireland has chosen to live in the back arse of beyond.

    If you were commercially viable you'd have been serviced long ago, thats why the NBP requires so much funding (and it still doesn't have enough).


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