Decoda wrote: » Update Crazy stuff really...... So a technician called last Wednesday and refused installation due to the location of the existing copper wire duct. He recommended overhead from the pole to a new pole in the garden. Another technician called that evening and marked out where the pole was to go and said that the pole installation crew would be back Fri or Sat morning. They never turned up so called Eir yesterday and was given a pole installation date of the 28th of April!! Come home from work last night and there's a pole installation crew erecting the pole. No phone calls.....no warning...just 4 lads in high vis and a massive truck parked in the driveway.....fair dues as they were out there until 20:00....I'm not complaining...far from it but you really have to wonder at the lack of communication between KN and Eir. Going to call this morning to see if I can get the rest of the installation completed now. D.
overtime wrote: » @grumpypants @banjopeter In Kinvara also, box is installed about 8 weeks ago - ordered on Mar 23rd and down for installation on Apr19th; they said possibly sooner but we'll see!
Grumpypants wrote: » Despite the website showing that it is available at my house (both by number and Address) and Kinvarra being littered with signs saying it is available right now, when I talk to Eir and try to order I am told that is is not available until May 3rd and I will need to wait until then, call back and arrange an appointment (which going on track record could be 3-4 weeks). So we are really looking at June.@banjopeter: I've one of those boxes on the pole right outside my house. It went up last week.
mikeecho wrote: » Back in the early 80s, even if there was a telegraph pole in your garden, you could still be left 2 to 3 years for a connection. Telephone rollout happened at only a slightly faster speed than a glacial retreat.
plodder wrote: » Short term, there might be a role for LTE in some places, but it's not a given that it will work at all in all remote places. And I keep coming back to the point that if the state could build a phone network with pretty much 100% coverage, why can't it build a passive fibre network with simpler components, to the same places? It may take time, but it should be easier.
BlinkingLights wrote: » There's nothing wrong with using well planned wireless technology for the last mile. LTE Advanced backed up with plenty of fibre to mast can deliver huge speeds quite comparable to what being offered on cable and fibre. What's happened here in the past was wireless on a shoestring budget without proper spectrum allocation and without enough back haul. So many people have had a bad experience. Done right, it works well and could replace a lot of the physical lines in scattered housing in rural areas. We also have to be realistic about return on investment. These companies can't do a project that they're never going to make a profit on. They aren't state services anymore.
zerks wrote: » Eir were installing fibre on Sunday in parts of the outskirts of Enniscorthy.Never heard of them working on a Sunday before.
damienirel wrote: » Hate is too strong a word - I'm indifferent to them - I think they are fairly useless at providing a service and that their main focus is shareholders not customers. They seem to have held onto the public profile/perception of a company that is state/semi state even though they are completely private. They owe us the Irish people nothing - and we owe them even less. So yeah hate is way too stong of a word. I just think they publish a lot of misinformation and give a lot of people false hope of improved broadband. But I do think the 300k stroke is very sneaky, and below the belt.
rob808 wrote: » Im not I never really believe they could ever hit the march 2017 or even the late 2018 date.It seem to me you really hate eir what did they do to you that you hate them so much.
damienirel wrote: » Rob is a "believer" no amount of rational logic will convince him of anything else. :D:D So they announce 100k for march 2017 and reality is they reach 21890 of them at a generous estimate. Yeah they really are keeping their word. This thread can be hilarious at times.
Johnboy1951 wrote: » You have no idea what is in the contract yet you say that as if you have some real basis for it! Wait for the contract details before deciding whether the contract will do what we hope or not.
damienirel wrote: » Nobody is better - they all are bidders outside of wireless(btw they are irrelevant). They all should be handled equally, none to them taken at their word or trusted. They should be tied to very strict well thought out legally binding contract that would mean if they didn't deliver(on time) that the state could recoup any cost that would be associated with having to complete the project.But this I'm afraid is not going to happen ever!
plodder wrote: » The problem is though - who can you point to that's "better" than Eir? Siro, who decided not to bother with rural customers at all, until the NBP came along? Or the crowd who think dead-end wireless is a long term solution?
KOR101 wrote: » I wonder whether the sudden push in the past few weeks was an attempt by EIR to make this announcement look less ridiculous than it does.
KOR101 wrote: » I really wish people would stop treating what are just announcements as something real. How much evidence of actual performance do people need?
rob808 wrote: » They were never gona hit that target do you think siro could dont think so, at least there given 300,000 rural homes FTTH that would be still waiting on nbp to start and by the look of it be late 2018.
damienirel wrote: » Weren't Eir supposed to have 100K connected by last month??? OMFG what a disgrace, looks like a leopard doesn't indeed change it's spots.
Bored Accountant wrote: » Just heard on the radio this morning there is due to be a press conference about the 300,000 & the NBP from Minister Nachtan. They said to date, Eir have made FTTH available to 12,000 households. Does that match figure that were being counted last week no the thread?
In reality the true number is somewhere between 16770 and 21890 and I would err on the lower of the two numbers.
