The government has published a new map outlining in detail 700,000 rural homes and businesses which will be connected to state-subsidised broadband of at least 30 megabits per second (Mbs) from 2016.
ED E wrote: » Think I'll jog on to Iceland or somewhere, silly little country....
9726_9726 wrote: This all makes Lowry and Dinny look like a couple of altar boys.
fritzelly wrote: » managed by some Australian company .
westyIrl wrote: » fritzelly wrote: » This is so convuluted it's easy to forgive anyone not following it. The IIF started by Irish Life, backed up by the government, managed by some Australian company buys a company engaged by the state to manage state assets and who are the only remaining company in another state tender... IIF who also own Airspeed Telecom...hmmm Ohhh my mind is blown trying to follow all this. Call me cynical but this all stinks of corruption. I suppose one could summarise that the State's investment benefits from it awarding the tender to ENET, which is probably the definition of conflict of interest. Doesn't smell of dasies no matter how you look at it. Jim
fritzelly wrote: » This is so convuluted it's easy to forgive anyone not following it. The IIF started by Irish Life, backed up by the government, managed by some Australian company buys a company engaged by the state to manage state assets and who are the only remaining company in another state tender... IIF who also own Airspeed Telecom...hmmm Ohhh my mind is blown trying to follow all this. Call me cynical but this all stinks of corruption.
Marlow wrote: » No no .. State floats 25% of a company who buys the majority of a company managing state assets at a totally inflated price .. (approx 6-10x the rate of lets say fiber from Dublin to Paris), without giving the state a decent cut back. So a little bit more convoluted. But otherwise you nailed it. Now ... putting contrast on it, eNet is now indirectly a partially state-owned asset. Then go back to the FOI process and review the fight there and how that's now even more a loosing battle for government and enet under those circumstances. /M
fritzelly wrote: » That twitter link makes me confused Let me see if I've got this right... State gives tender to tiny company Tiny company sells itself to a US company (hmm down the rabbit hole) Somebody wants to know the details of the tender State fights tooth and nail against it State finds its a losing battle Naughten suddenly without any kind of tendering (is that not illegal for state contracts) extends their contracts bumping enets value considerably State now buys (majority of) company managing state assets at a probably inflated price FOI dead in the water (edit actually why does that negate the original FOI request?) And after all that not a single high speed broadband connection Who was getting these brown envelopes I would like to know.
fritzelly wrote: » State now buys (majority of) company managing state assets at a probably inflated price
Ardent wrote: » Who is Gavin referring to here I wonder?
ED E wrote: » The ministers are just signatures here. I want to know how many of the DECNR staff currently in place were there back in 2006 are still there today (job for life remember!) then decentralize the lot of them to the department of ass scratching in Ballyshannon or somewhere equally remote.
westyIrl wrote: » Not difficult to understand SIRO and OE withdrawing facing down the barrel of such nonsense. How in the world this flies with any EU oversight baffles me. Jim
9726_9726 wrote: » Enet paid the following amounts for the concession fee for use of the €200M taxpayer-funded network: 2015 - €662K 2016 - €1M
westyIrl wrote: » A convoluted company for a convoluted tender process. 44 in operations and not 1 field tech in sight I'd imagine. What manpower would GMC Sierra have on the telecoms side? Jim
9726_9726 wrote: » So Enet's last accounts show - 44 employees in operations - 12 in sales & marketing - 8 in billing Your local branch of Penny's would be more staffed. By contrast, Eir have around 3,500 employees. Suitable to build the world's first large scale universal open access residential fibre network? They split off an other company in 2014 from Enasc Eireann, Teo. (which holds the coveted MANs concession). The newco is Enet Telecommunications Networks Ltd, with no employees and the stated purpose of holding non-MAN business. Both are part of a group structure under Granahan McCourt and are therefore "related entities". These docs date from before the IIF purchase, though.
So what now? Who will fill SSEs boots in the consortium? What players in the Irish market have the capacity to build the ducts and cabling required for the broadband plan? I can think of a few. *cough*.
ED E wrote: » We can't ever fire anyone who works directly or even indirectly for the state but thats a thread for another day. We can run damage control though. The economic benefits fixing statewide telecoms outways a few salaries by a long shot.
