Gonzo wrote: » This game that Eir is playing is a win for the customer hopefully, if it wasn't for this game everyone of us would be waiting till sometime 2018 for a start and the NBP would take at least 2 years longer to complete. 302,000 out of 700,000+ rural premises passable by end of 2018 is a very sizable chunk of the rural/urban divide fixed. It's possible that many people on the blue lines could be seeing FTTH at least 5 years earlier than waiting sometime between 2018-2023. Theres another 150,000 approx premises in urban areas which will now be covered by the NBP, pity those areas should have had decent broadband at this stage, hopefully those areas will get seen to as soon as possible.
Johnboy1951 wrote: » Those Urban premises must be a better option for commercial roll out than one-off housing on the outskirts of villages. I expect if anyone wished to properly compete (commercially) with eir they could have chosen those urban clusters for a roll out.
Jpmarn wrote: » Has there be any activity relating to the rollout of FTTH any where in co. Limerick? Don't see anything happening in my exchange area of Inch St. Lawernce. We are due a rollout by mid 2017.
Radio_Man wrote: » However they have been doing tree cutting in Murroe, Locals say it was for the placement of the fiber cables.
Grumpypants wrote: » Been out and about in Kinvara over the Christmas and saw a lot of the the prep work all over the town, which looks more or less done. Lots of new manholes with rolls of ducting/cable sticking out of them at the base of poles and all the hedges cut. Even a few new poles have been installed. Lots of new cabling and weird boxes on the way into town where the main fiber cable will run along. It needs to come from two towns over to get here. It is good to see so much got done in around two-three weeks of work. Hopefully the keep this momentum up and get the fiber rolled out in the next few months. Fingers crossed they are not too far off the March deadline.
Gonzo wrote: » serious effort was put in the 6 weeks leading upto Christmas, a continuation of that sort of momentum would see Open Eir back on track and on schedule within 3-6 months, maybe less.
digiman wrote: » Sorry, but please back up these claims with some numbers. As you can't say that they will be back on track and on schedule otherwise from your view of being a customer in just one town. Either you have inside knowledge on it or else I sometimes wonder if I'm the one missing something really obvious here or are people so easily manipulated by Eir and their propaganda machine? Some basics at least... How many crews worked in your town? How long did it take to complete the town? How many FTTH eligible premises in the town and how many of these were completed? How many km of cable overhead and ducted in the town? How long from first works to being able to order a service. How may towns/villages are they working on concurrently? Now let's put try and put a small bit of science on it and figure out what would be required to do the 100k by March and the 300k by Dec 2018. Otherwise you are just talking nonsense (saying that in nicest possible way) :D
Deleted User wrote: » You do realise that the only people who could provide any of those answers are the contractor's project management team, information from any other source would be speculative at best.
digiman wrote: » To be honest, it's my exact point. How can people on here say that the rollout will be back on track and on schedule without knowing this information? It's pure nonsense otherwise to say this and it's said multiple times in this thread in last few weeks.
pegasus1 wrote: » Like any cabling job. 1st stage - planning... 2nd stage - making routes... 3rd stage - running the cable... 3th stage - terminating customer end of cable ... 4th stage - terminating other end of cable... 5th stage - testing... longest stages are 1st and 2nd.
pegasus1 wrote: » Like any cabling job. 1st stage - planning... 2nd stage - making routes... 3rd stage - running the cable...3th stage - terminating customer end of cable ... 4th stage - terminating other end of cable... 5th stage - testing...
Gonzo wrote: » Quigleys Point goes live for FTTH today. Carnmore also goes live today but I think that is FTTC only.
KeRbDoG wrote: » How do you get this info? Is it on the OpenEir/Eir site?
Allison Puny Appetite wrote: » It all points to the fact that they cannot be trusted. 66 towns were to get FTTH, they didn't. 100K premises were to get FTTH by March 2017. It is highly unlikely that will happen. Now we are to take them at face value about 300K by 2018.
knipex wrote: » I am on a blue line and on the first 100K. Was showing as fall 2016, then winter 2016 \ 2017 and now early to mid 2017. Not going to happen by March and I would be shocked if they get 50% done by March.
Gonzo wrote: » They have dropped all mentions of first 100k and March. Their end goal is now all 300k completed by end of December 2018 at a rate of approx 36,000 every quarter. Most exchanges originally to be completed by March 2017 are planned to be finished by mid 2017, some were moved to end of 2017. Some exchanges are at least a year behind schedule due to the very slow start during 2016. We are all hoping that progress this will year will be much faster and on time, it kinda has to be if they are to reach their target Dec 2018.
marno21 wrote: » Have they said themselves they will be doing 36,000 per quarter? With a rollout like this, and all the factors invovled, they won't be doing it steadily. It'll come in bursts, especially towards the end when half the forum is giving out about them not meeting their targets.
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