Broadband in Ireland ...The Lies!

spongebob

How bout a promises and lies thread.
This thread is here in order that the various members may post the (sometimes hilarious) lies that thye have been told about Broadband 'coming soon to their area'

Rules

1. A promise or a lie has to come from a telco in respect of a product of 200kbps or higher thats twice ISDN.
ISDN stories would not normally qualify although there are some funnies around from people who could not even get ISDN....but were offered something else instead!

2. It has to be in the form of an email from staff to the poster, not hearsay.

3. alternatively it has to be in the form of a statement reported in the national or local press stating that Cable/DSL/Broadband wireless WILL be LIVE in LOCATION by DATE with link to story...harder now Ireland.Com is subscriber only. If you cannot link to the story you must publish PAPER JOURNALIST DATE

4. It has to be overdue by 6 months, meaning that the promise was in respect of a product that should have been available in a location by the 31/12/2001

5. Verbal promises (the technician told me BLAH) do not count, regrettably. Nor do the witterings of customer service droids on the phone. You have to have it in writing.

Start searching Now.

Dustaz

I like this idea

Im going to sticky this for a while and give it a chance. Please observe the rules of the thread and no spam of any kind pls

ando

not exactly broadband, but a promise non the less:

Telecom Eireann has announced that it will introduce its own version of "Flat Rate" access in January 1999

http://www.iol.ie/~kooltek/flatrate.html

and here, cablelink's plans for cable internet.... ahhhhh £25 a month .. ah man, we were so on target... what went wrong ???

Dateline 0330 Hrs 29 July 1998:

Cablelink, Ireland's biggest cable operator, announced at a press conference on Wednesday 22nd that it will offer internet access via the its cable networks. The service will cost £25 per month for a 256K connection, the equivalent of nearly ten combined phonelines

http://www.iol.ie/~kooltek/cablelink_internet_delivery.html

stormkeeper

There is a terrible irony about the whole flat rate internet access situation. Most ISPs in Ireland have a local call rate POP in each area. This means that a call to a POP is a local call rate. Of course the one thing that Telecom Eireann did away with a few years ago was the unlimited local call. It was possible to stay on a local call, regardless of call duration, then for the price of a single unit. At the time that Telecom Eireann changed the charging model, the Bulletin Board System (BBS) scene was vibrant and the internet was about to take off. If one thing had to be selected as a major cause of the poor uptake of the internet it is the group of people who decided to implement a timed local call. These narrow-minded characters very nearly killed the early growth of the internet in Ireland.

Well, looks like we found out where the problem of there being supposedly no market for flat-rate internet... Eircom/Telecom Eireann caused the entire thing, and they're trying to pass the blame to someone else! :mad:

PiE

But it costs too much to stay online searching!

seamus

Oh ffs, now you've given me another reason to do no study in work . I have access to 5 years of archived jpgs of newspaper cuttings. I could be weeks at this

Great idea though Muck, not only for the humour content, but also because we can build a small archive of, as you said, false promises. These we can use to counter any "Look! We're giving you broadband, aren't we great?" claims, along the lines of, "You've been promising %$&^ing broadband since 199X!! What took so $£%@ing long!!?"

(I will be back with tonnes of material )

Dustaz

Thats exactly the idea seamus.
Its a little along the lines of Dahamstas personal 'omg look at this' thread (think its called 'Attn: Eircom, Esat, NTL etc')

So for the purposes of easy access to any info posted, could we refrain from commenting, unless its directly related to one of the articles.

Thanks lads

spongebob

Hi.

Dahamsta started this .Thread today based on a story on ENN, duly linked in his port.

At the bottom of the ENN story he would have found
This Lie from last summer.

Why did ENN not point out the obvious lie from Chorus (re Dublin and Cork) while publicising their latest press release....or did they?

M

Dustaz

Im unstickying this, but feel free to search and post to it if anyone finds any more.