Blew my top.

Arboration

After reading the post below on DSL, I became very .......... upset .......... It took me a while to calm down, but in the heat of my anger I composed this e-mail:

... The price for DSL has raised again, you COMPLETE MONEY HUNGRY GITS. Ahem.

Not only do you fail to provide Ireland with flat-rate 56k Internet access, you stand atop a pyre of monopolization.

How DARE you call yourselves a Telecom company.

And NO, I do not want a reply.

Hang your head's in ****ing shame.

I dont think I should've done it lol.
Or perhaps I should have.

m1ke

you should also ask yourself why u felt it nesessary to tell us

Arboration

Lol.

It seemed everyone was rather upset with this whole DSL thing, as was I.
This seemed like the right place to put it.

mdf

You should also try to ascertain if you are dealing with reality and know the truth. You're basing your facts on someone messing round with a website rather than hard facts (i.e. official press releases etc).

dahamsta

What mdf said. We have no idea if the amended prices were right, the amended amended prices were right, or if men are from Jupiter. We should see an annoucement this week, let's just see what that says.

Sending abusive email to Eircom will resolve nothing. If you have a genuine complaint - and this isn't - you should write it when you're calm and be polite. And Eircom are hardly the ones to write to, since they don't give a toss what you think, and won't until there's genuine competition in the marketplace.

Keep an eye out for those flying pigs while you're waiting.

adam

Mountjoy Mugger

Fair point, Adam.

As an aside taking Bard's prediction into account that the Southside of Dublin will probably get the ADSL rollout first, us testing on Dublin's Northside (forgive me for not addressing those outside Dublin) might get a couple of months more as testers. Hopefully, by then, Esat will have a product available for launch at a more competive price... /Wish mode off

longword

Originally posted by mdf
basing your facts on someone messing round with a website rather than hard facts (i.e. official press releases etc).

Dunno about you but I'd tend to think (hope?) Eircom is in control of its own web site, an important information outlet for any company in this day and age.

dahamsta

I wouldn't hold out much hope for Esat Fusion at this stage. Bill Murphy was sent into the company to make it profitable in a very short time, and it'll be very hard to turn the retail section around. If he has any sense, he'll be absolutely ruthless with Fusion, he'll give them an ultimatum right to their faces -- make money by $n, or we'll shutter the section and escort the lot of you from the building. I think it's almost a given that the retail section is on the way out meself. And I think the major factor in deciding what to do with it will be PR, and the risk of ticking off business customers, because there isn't much between the losses of a sell-off or a outright closure.

All the recent press on these issues smacks of behind-the-scenes dealing, double-dealing and market control to me. Eircom and the ODTR dropping hints about a bitstream release, rumours about an Esat release, Eircom's pricing changes, Esat's new CEO, the whole lot. It stinks.

adam

dahamsta

Dunno about you but I'd tend to think (hope?) Eircom is in control of its own web site, an important information outlet for any company in this day and age.

Well, they had to get something out of the positively foolish multimedia acquisitions spree, didn't they?

For the record, Eircom's website is a sprawling, disorganised mess. Which is quite sad really, because a little tweaking here and there would fix it up quite nicely. I'd be happy to help, Eircom, feel free to give me a call.

adam

sceptre

Originally posted by dahamsta
For the record, Eircom's website is a sprawling, disorganised mess. Which is quite sad really, because a little tweaking here and there would fix it up quite nicely. I'd be happy to help, Eircom, feel free to give me a call.
adam

Esat's retail business - what does that consist of? The mobile phone shops? (would have thought that would have gone along with O2.

mdf

It's what used to be Esat Fusion - the home phone and Internet market.

Digifone is completely separate and has no links with Esat now

Tellox

fact of the matter is that nobody important is going to read it, your just going to píss off some helpdesk employee with no power over the situation..