Smart now available in Churchfield and Quaker Road

GarfieldConnoll

Hi,

Smart and eircom have signed off the Smart installations in the Churchfield and Quaker Road exchanges in Cork.

Orders will be processed from next week some time.

If you registered for the service, we'll be contacting you in the next few days.

Garfield.

JNive

holy monkeyballs, those exchanges are almost on time lol. unfortunately me & my girlfriend are on the other 2 exchanges lol, dennehys cross and wellington road.

Any progress on those 2 yet, you would have 2 very happy customers if they are ready soon, the girlfriends 12-month contract with eircom ends about august 5th lol

GarfieldConnoll

JNive wrote:

holy monkeyballs, those exchanges are almost on time lol. unfortunately me & my girlfriend are on the other 2 exchanges lol, dennehys cross and wellington road.

Any progress on those 2 yet, you would have 2 very happy customers if they are ready soon, the girlfriends 12-month contract with eircom ends about august 5th lol

I'd say 6-8 weeks on both. Maybe earlier on Denneheys.

Garfield.

Stephen

Any word on Kilkenny exchange, Garfield? I was corresponding with someone in smart about this via email but they had no information besides "this year".

Sponge Bob

Stephen wrote:

Any word on Kilkenny exchange, Garfield? I was corresponding with someone in smart about this via email but they had no information besides "this year".

Kilkenny is in Waterford is it not ? He answered your and everyones question last week, see this list Here

Stephen

Eh, no, Kilkenny is in Kilkenny.

kmb

Any news of carrigaline in cork going on line?

Would be really interested in this!!!

regards kieran

JNive

anything not in garfields signature is likely to be 3 months or more i would estimate

skywalker

Is there any guesstimate on when the number porting thing will be sorted? Im on the coolock exchange & ready for smart, but wont be giving up my phone number.

zuma

skywalker wrote:

Is there any guesstimate on when the number porting thing will be sorted? Im on the coolock exchange & ready for smart, but wont be giving up my phone number.

End of the Summer at the earliest...depends on the holiday times for the high court and other things!
eircom are some brats!!!

digitaldr

Garfield I'm with Digiweb on the Whitehall exchange and Smart got my direct debit ages ago. Digiweb have recently lowered their monthly price by €10 but I'll have to enter into a 6 month cotract in order to benifit. My question is will Smart be ready to go on the Whitehall exchange in less than 6 months - I want to keep my landline number too.

Thanks

WillieFlynn

zuma wrote:

End of the Summer at the earliest...depends on the holiday times for the high court and other things!
eircom are some brats!!!

The next instalment of Eircom Vs Smart is due in the court on 21th July (List of court cases and dates), does anyone know what happened to day in court between them?

GarfieldConnoll

Stephen wrote:

Any word on Kilkenny exchange, Garfield? I was corresponding with someone in smart about this via email but they had no information besides "this year".

No, sorry.

Garfield.

GarfieldConnoll

kmb wrote:

Any news of carrigaline in cork going on line?

Would be really interested in this!!!

regards kieran

No,

Sorry.

Garfield.

GarfieldConnoll

JNive wrote:

anything not in garfields signature is likely to be 3 months or more i would estimate

That is a reasonable assumption. There are more exchanges 'in play' in the background, but the dates for availability could be euphemistically described as 'fluid'.

Garfield.

zuma

GarfieldConnoll wrote:

That is a reasonable assumption. There are more exchanges 'in play' in the background, but the dates for availability could be euphemistically described as 'fluid'.

Garfield.

or until eircom stop acting like $%%&"£...if you know what I mean!!!

GarfieldConnoll

digitaldr wrote:

Garfield I'm with Digiweb on the Whitehall exchange and Smart got my direct debit ages ago. Digiweb have recently lowered their monthly price by €10 but I'll have to enter into a 6 month cotract in order to benifit. My question is will Smart be ready to go on the Whitehall exchange in less than 6 months - I want to keep my landline number too.

Thanks

Service will be available in less that 6 months, though I can't say when. As of right now, you will have to accept a new number to avail of the service.

Garfield.

daveyjoe

Another shout for Carrigaline, I know at least 6 other people in Carrigaline who would sign-up with smart, so assuming that KMB would sign up that would give you 8 potential customers already. Come on Smart! add Carrigaline to your upgrade list.

damien

daveyjoe wrote:

I know at least 6 other people in Carrigaline who would sign-up with smart, so assuming that KMB would sign up that would give you 8 potential customers already. Come on Smart! add Carrigaline to your upgrade list.

Yeah Garfield, that's well worth the €125k investment isn't it?

TimTim

damien.m wrote:

Yeah Garfield, that's well worth the €125k investment isn't it?

With my brilliant math skills.... 37.2 years to break even in upgrading the exchange. Assuming Smart get the full 35 euro.....

If I'm thinking right, with Smart actually only receiving 11 euro, thats comes to about.... 118.37 years assuming the 8 people are still alive and paying their bills in full

I wonder where Smart want to go today?

daveyjoe

TimTim wrote:

With my brilliant math skills.... 37.2 years to break even in upgrading the exchange. Assuming Smart get the full 35 euro.....

If I'm thinking right, with Smart actually only receiving 11 euro, thats comes to about.... 118.37 years assuming the 8 people are still alive and paying their bills in full

I wonder where Smart want to go today?

It was only a tongue in cheek remark. There are also another 15,000+ people in Carrigaline beside us 8.

Does it really cost smart €125,000 to open up an exchange? Jaysus! Wouldn't it make more sense for them to try operating the service with wireless networks instead?

TimTim

daveyjoe wrote:

It was only a tongue in cheek remark. There are also another 15,000+ people in Carrigaline beside us 8.

Does it really cost smart €125,000 to open up an exchange? Jaysus! Wouldn't it make more sense for them to try operating the service with wireless networks instead?

I know.

Depends I'd say. Digging roads and laying fiber is a expensive thing to do. Then again wireless gear to provide the same bandwith to the exchange would cost too. Which brings me to my next question.

Is it even possible to provide fiber speeds with wireless gear unless you cover a very large wall with microwave dishes?

The Fool

WillieFlynn wrote:

The next instalment of Eircom Vs Smart is due in the court on 21th July (List of court cases and dates), does anyone know what happened to day in court between them?

Anyone heading into the High Court to watch the case on thursday? Not exactly OJ Simpson but might be ok with a bit of popcorn

Cuauhtemoc

Anyone heading into the High Court to watch the case on thursday? Not exactly OJ Simpson but might be ok with a bit of popcorn

Would the Gentleman in the third row please refrain from throwing popcorn at the nice gentleman from Eircom

damien

Cuauhtemoc wrote:

Would the Gentleman in the third row please refrain from throwing popcorn at the nice gentleman from Eircom

They wouldn't be allowed use the word nice.

damien

daveyjoe wrote:

Does it really cost smart €125,000 to open up an exchange?

If not more. To enable your line Smart has to pay eircom €14.67 a month for the line, plus they have to pay €120 for eircom to connect your line to their equipment. So, they are only making €20.33 a month from you.

They have to pay for air-conditioning, electricity and floorspace on a monthly/yearly basis. Then they have to dig from the exchange to the fibre ring. Digging costs a lot. Luckily most MANs were meant to pass the eircom exchanges. They then have to buy the equipment for the exchange which isn't cheap, despite adsl equipment being very popular.

Perhaps Garfield could go through the costs of enabling one exchange?

crawler

damien.m wrote:

If not more. To enable your line Smart has to pay eircom €14.67 a month for the line, plus they have to pay €120 for eircom to connect your line to their equipment. So, they are only making €20.33 a month from you.

They have to pay for air-conditioning, electricity and floorspace on a monthly/yearly basis. Then they have to dig from the exchange to the fibre ring. Digging costs a lot. Luckily most MANs were meant to pass the eircom exchanges. They then have to buy the equipment for the exchange which isn't cheap, despite adsl equipment being very popular.

Perhaps Garfield could go through the costs of enabling one exchange?

Rough guide (varies depending on exactly what eircom surveys you do and size of exchange)

eircom costs €25k - €30k
Fibre devleopment €20k to €100k depending on civils
Ports costs €14.67 each
Activiation €120 each
DSLAM - depends what you use and the technology
Eircom service charges - per service call, regardless of fault
Co-Lo space - per footprint, per annum

SimonMaher

Hi Garfield,

Moving to Marlfield Green, Tallaght in the first week in September. Any idea when Tallaght exchange might be online? Dont want to sign up to 12 months with another provider if Smart is on the way shortly!

Thanks in advance,

Pete

GarfieldConnoll

Pete Reed wrote:

Hi Garfield,

Moving to Marlfield Green, Tallaght in the first week in September. Any idea when Tallaght exchange might be online? Dont want to sign up to 12 months with another provider if Smart is on the way shortly!

Thanks in advance,

Pete

Pete,

I don't have any dates for Tallaght. We will go there, but I don't have a date.

Garfield.

zuma

In other words 2006???

Skud

Garfield, I received an email in regards to Quaker road broadband mentioning a problem with Eircom etc, saying I have to get a new phone line. I want a new one as the house owner doesnt want to convert, I dont have a problem with this. But can you clarify this is true and also that my line rental free for life applies to me as a customer and not just my other number. Also how much more charges will this incur in regards to installation and equipment and all that?

tman

So the Shantalla exchange is live?
I (re)ordered again recently and posted the dd form off yesterday.
any estimates of when i can expect to be online by?
i've been 6 months without bb ffs

zuma

Shantalla appears to be in the "next to be enabled" list and as such is not live yet.

Pighead

Any news for Berkely Road Dublin 7?
Would have thought being so close to the City Centre we would have been up and running by now.

Skud

well is there any news on the questions regarding this post?

PiE

Pighead wrote:

Any news for Berkely Road Dublin 7?
Would have thought being so close to the City Centre we would have been up and running by now.

That's probably on the North Main... as you can see from Garfield's sig, it's one of the next exchanges up.

Probably been asked a million times, but any news as to when Smart will be able to offer BB without needing a new phone number?

Solair

I'd say Wellington road would be pretty fast to come online as it's pretty much in Cork City Centre thus covers a lot of businesses and it's sitting close enough to the MAN.

GarfieldConnoll

Skud wrote:

Garfield, I received an email in regards to Quaker road broadband mentioning a problem with Eircom etc, saying I have to get a new phone line. I want a new one as the house owner doesnt want to convert, I dont have a problem with this. But can you clarify this is true and also that my line rental free for life applies to me as a customer and not just my other number. Also how much more charges will this incur in regards to installation and equipment and all that?

Skud,

At present, to avail of Smart BB you must accept a new telephone number on the line. The mail you would/ should have received would have refered to taking a new number, not a new line. If there is a 'spare path' available in the house, we could unbundle that, provide a new line on that, with a new number. The line rental on that new line would be included in the €35 monthly fee.

There would be an additional charge for providing the service on a spare path and would be conditional on a spare path being available. I can't think of the charges off the top of my head, but I imagine they would be sub €100. As with existing lines, the service would be self install.

Garfield.

GarfieldConnoll

PiE wrote:

Probably been asked a million times, but any news as to when Smart will be able to offer BB without needing a new phone number?

No.

Garfield.

mossieh

Hi Garfield,

any idea what exactly is happening with the Whitehall exchange? the cs rep I spoke to before (Alan Saunders) mentioned a physical problem with the building, can you clarify?

Thanks

GarfieldConnoll

mossieh wrote:

Hi Garfield,

any idea what exactly is happening with the Whitehall exchange? the cs rep I spoke to before (Alan Saunders) mentioned a physical problem with the building, can you clarify?

Thanks

Can't clarify, it's not my building, so not my place to say. That issue is resolved and we are working on civils at present. No date though.

Garfield.

Skud

cheers

Anarchist

Why have I still not being contacted and I am in Summerhill?

gibbon75

Hi Garfield!

Do u know an approx. date for Cork city Cork Central?

Cheers!

GarfieldConnoll

gibbon75 wrote:

Hi Garfield!

Do u know an approx. date for Cork city Cork Central?

Cheers!

Some time in September probably.

Garfield.

GarfieldConnoll

Anarchist wrote:

Why have I still not being contacted and I am in Summerhill?

Don't know. PM me your CLI and I'll look into it.

Garfield.

gibbon75

Thanks a million!

RonanH

Garfield,

any idea when you'll be in Shannon Town exchange roughly??? Will it be about 3, 6 or 9 months? (I won't hold you to it )

RonanH