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Forget broadband

  • 23-11-2019 10:37am
    #1
    campingcarist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭


    Forget about broadband - I haven't even got a mobile phone signal. There should be no mobile black spots in the country before broadband has been started.


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  • #2
    listermint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,216 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    campingcarist wrote: »
    Forget about broadband - I haven't even got a mobile phone signal. There should be no mobile black spots in the country before broadband has been started.

    Youd have communication back with broadband.


    I gather you know this.


  • #3
    campingcarist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭campingcarist


    listermint wrote: »
    Youd have communication back with broadband.


    I gather you know this.


    I have internet via satellite costing €45 per month so I can use Skype and what's app. However, I really need a mobile signal - I'm 73 and live alone. If I fall or have a medical emergency a mobile signal is really essential.


    My nearest neighbours are over 1 km away so no calling them and they don't have a mobile signal either.


  • #4
    listermint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,216 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    campingcarist wrote: »
    I have internet via satellite costing €45 per month so I can use Skype and what's app. However, I really need a mobile signal - I'm 73 and live alone. If I fall or have a medical emergency a mobile signal is really essential.


    My nearest neighbours are over 1 km away so no calling them and they don't have a mobile signal either.

    You can call them on WhatsApp and VoIP allows you to call anyone including the emergency services.


  • #5
    dam099
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭dam099


    campingcarist wrote: »
    I have internet via satellite costing €45 per month so I can use Skype and what's app. However, I really need a mobile signal - I'm 73 and live alone. If I fall or have a medical emergency a mobile signal is really essential.


    My nearest neighbours are over 1 km away so no calling them and they don't have a mobile signal either.

    Eir are legally obliged to provide you a landline, they may do it over a radio link if you are remote but it would be something else you could use in an emergency.


  • #6
    Gooser14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,668 ✭✭✭Gooser14


    campingcarist wrote:
    My nearest neighbours are over 1 km away so no calling them and they don't have a mobile signal either.


    Is there a mobile signal outside your house?


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  • #7
    campingcarist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭campingcarist


    Gooser14 wrote: »
    Is there a mobile signal outside your house?
    No no signal. I on Vodafone which seems to be the best operator in this area.


  • #8
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Even Finland, the home of Nokia and world leader in mobile tech, has black spots in the hinterlands. We have nearly all the pop covered but circa 95% geographic coverage. This is the nature of things, the last couple percent are massively expensive to service as they require cells in places that are very hard to reach with mains electricity and service vans.


    OP you probably live in a small depression in a very rural area or a valley in Wicklow. Not many other spots are totally black. If I lived in the Sahara I wouldnt expect snow each Christmas.


  • #9
    campingcarist
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭campingcarist


    ED E wrote: »
    Even Finland, the home of Nokia and world leader in mobile tech, has black spots in the hinterlands. We have nearly all the pop covered but circa 95% geographic coverage. This is the nature of things, the last couple percent are massively expensive to service as they require cells in places that are very hard to reach with mains electricity and service vans.


    OP you probably live in a small depression in a very rural area or a valley in Wicklow. Not many other spots are totally black. If I lived in the Sahara I wouldnt expect snow each Christmas.
    No, the forgotten county - Donegal; and north Donegal at that. Now, if there were to be a serious car accident there is no way of calling an ambulance or AGS.


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