Broadband lures surfers

pork99

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2562289.stm

In the week following Thanksgiving, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas spending frenzy in America, online spend totalled $1.5bn, up 41% on the same period last year.

Has anyone got figures for;

1) How much does ecommerce contribute to the Irish economy

2) How fast is ecommerce growing here

3) What impact is lack of affordable broadband having on 1 and 2 above

4) What contribution could sensibly priced broadband make to the economy here?

Might make an even stronger case if things like this could be quantified e.g. our economy is losing X billion euro per year due to eircom's dicking about

Richard Barry

Originally posted by pork99
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2562289.stm



Has anyone got figures for;

1) How much does ecommerce contribute to the Irish economy

2) How fast is ecommerce growing here

Aside from the fact that almost all of the “new economy” in Ireland statistically speaking is dumped under the quaint and irrelevant headings of either “chemicals” and “office equipment” -

I suspect that statisticians will get away with ignoring e-commerce completely. About 90% of Ryanair’s revenues come via their website. Statisticians will forget about airline e-commerce and call it travel.*. Same for someone selling flowers on a website or anything else. E-commerce is statistically invisible in the scheme of things. (Which doesn't mean they can ignore it. Far from it.)

R.

topgold

The Beeb story documents how broadband keeps consumers in front of their screens longer than dialup connections.

Most 21st century companies would expect to have some face time with the Internet. The study shows their face time with a broadband connection is time better spent or less time spent. Either way, it's a competitive advantage to have an affordable broadband connection.

That's the message. We need to parrot that message.

Fergus

The story also highlights the fact that online content is constantly evolving more towards broadband access as such users increase.

This means content is becoming increasing unusable on dial-up connections. And this will thus make it harder for the uninitiated public in Ireland to appreciate the power of the net over their ancient dial-up connection technology.

Meanwhile, in the US we are seeing new businesses like http://movielink.com being launched. This sort of thing is only a dream for an Internet-based business in Ireland.

ednwireland

I love the mesage you get from movielink


"Thank you for your interest in Movielink. We want you to take part in the powerful Internet movie rental experience that Movielink delivers; however, you currently do not meet our minimum system requirements. You will need to adjust the following:

It's like you live somewhere crap with no broadband go away until you've got some bandwidth

ednwireland

I love the mesage you get from movielink


"Thank you for your interest in Movielink. We want you to take part in the powerful Internet movie rental experience that Movielink delivers; however, you currently do not meet our minimum system requirements. You will need to adjust the following:
You need a Connection Speed of 128 kbps or higher"

It's like you live somewhere crap with no broadband go away until you've got some bandwidth

this is going to become much more common i guess on streaming media sites

pork99

Here we go again;

The study said that consumer demand for shopping online was "broad based and evolving", and November's sales figure represented a jump of 10.1% on the previous month.

The take-up of high-speed broadband internet links is thought to be one factor behind the speedy growth.

"Broadband's rapid take-up is already having a profound impact on online shopping, setting exciting new expectations for consumers," said IMRG chief executive James Roper.

"Its fast connectivity enables consumers to nip to the stores online and enjoy a hassle-free rich online shopping experience."


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2571695.stm

It looks like we're heading for a future where we're the digital "shut outs" of Europe.

Still at least we are building a digital hub which should sort everything out. We have MediaLab Europe and the Brits don't. Doesn't that give you a warm special feeling?

eth0_

Originally posted by ednwireland
I love the mesage you get from movielink


"Thank you for your interest in Movielink. We want you to take part in the powerful Internet movie rental experience that Movielink delivers; however, you currently do not meet our minimum system requirements. You will need to adjust the following:
You need a Connection Speed of 128 kbps or higher"

What choo talkin' about? I get "Thank you for your interest in Movielink. We want you to take part in the powerful Internet movie rental experience that Movielink delivers, but it is presently unavailable to users outside of the United States. " and i'm on a really fast connection in work.

I'm sure it's more the copyright issues that stop you using the service! Sure you could be (legally) viewing movies online before they even come out here in the cinema.

pork99

What would be very interesting, if anyone has the stats, would be to make a graph which plots the % of business through ecommerce in developed countries' economies against the DSL pricing data in eircomtribunal's excellent graph here;

http://www.eircomtribunal.com/rat_poison/news3.html