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  • 23-02-2005 12:31pm
    #1
    mike65
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    Just a heads up for there monthly 14 page publication in association with siliconrepublic.com. The front page is "Broadband At the Crossroads" Input from Dempsey and McRedmond and a certain Peter Weigl of Mayo also gets his two cents in! :)

    Mike.


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  • #2
    eircomtribunal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭eircomtribunal


    mike65 wrote:
    Just a heads up for there monthly 14 page publication in association with siliconrepublic.com. The front page is "Broadband At the Crossroads" Input from Dempsey and McRedmond and a certain Peter Weigl of Mayo also gets his two cents in! :)

    Mike.

    Anything accessible online?
    P.


  • #3
    eircomtribunal
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    eircomtribunal wrote:
    Anything accessible online?
    P.
    The extensive article by John Kennedy is here

    (David McRedmond) “This announcement to extend broadband to 200 of these communities will see broadband available to 90pc of Eircom lines...)
    Again the old masterly misinformation, which is technically not a lie: Enabling the extra 200 exchanges might eventually make "broadband available to 90pc of Eircom lines", but with the high line failure rate the availability of broadband will end at the wrong side of the last mile piece of copper for 20% of customers. We are only interested to know which percentage of users can avail of broadband or what percentage of lines are real broadband enabled lines.
    P.


  • #4
    SkepticOne
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    Probably higher than 20% in expanding towns where Eircom routinely install pair gains.


  • #5
    jwt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 849 ✭✭✭jwt


    And the more rural the exchange, the higher the percentage of lines longer than 3.5km.

    John


  • #6
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    and remote fibre connected concentrator units in towns where they ran out of copper, also with no DSL despite being on remotely on a BB exchange and having their own pair to the concentrator.


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  • #7
    eircomtribunal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭eircomtribunal


    SkepticOne wrote:
    Probably higher than 20%

    So the situation is: By March 2006 Irish dsl coverage will be (0.8 x 0.9 =) 72% of lines, most likely lower.

    We have to keep making this known, as Eircom is really pushing that misleading 90% figure. And everybody is falling for it.

    The UK has "broadband now available to 96% of households"( http://www.gnn.gov.uk/content/detail.asp?NewsAreaID=2&ReleaseID=146915 ), NI has 100% of population covered.

    P.


  • #8
    SkepticOne
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    eircomtribunal wrote:
    So the situation is: By March 2006 Irish dsl coverage will be (0.8 x 0.9 =) 72% of lines, most likely lower.

    We have to keep making this known, as Eircom is really pushing that misleading 90% figure. And everybody is falling for it.
    Of course they are. Eircom just needs to keep repeating it enough and it will sink in. It lessens the case for alternative approaches such as the GBS schemes, bandaids that they are, and buys time for Eircom to extend their monopoly and prevent competition from developing.


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