Imagine LTE Rural Broadband

On WISP vs. MBB, mobile has its place in the hierarchy being national networks that fill the mobile and fixed wireless niche, backed by large MNOs. WISPs are always going to be limited by spectrum availability and regionality.

My brother uses a 4G router going on 2 years now, with a €10 per month SIM, and wouldn't even consider the reduced €50 per month Starlink sub.

WISP coverage has pretty much disappeared in our area bar Imagine of course, if you have decent line of sight to one of their scarce masts.

I wonder when Amazon's Project Kuiper will launch? Will there be price war between them and Starlink then?

Has there been a price increase lately? Wondering about the difference between this and last month's bill

Yes they emailed about it about 2 months ago

With NBI finally arriving I've been left with the P2P receiver from my old Imagine subscription that they chose never to pick up. Does anyone have any knowledge on what the receiver actually is and if it's able to be reset and paired with another P2P unit?

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/tipperary/news/tipperary-td-warns-of-catastrophic-broadband-blackouts-if-suppliers-withdraw-before-nbi-rollout/a624818513.html

Michael Lowey advocating for Imagine Broadband in the Dáil yesterday

Imagine are in financial dire straits by the looks of things. Starlink may be gaining some new subscribers in the coming months.

A Tipperary TD has warned of the possibility of “catastrophic” broadband blackouts across large swathes of the country if a leading supplier withdraws before the National Broadband Plan (NBI) rollout is completed.

Despite being plagued by delays, National Broadband Ireland has stated that it is confident that all areas will be completed by the beginning of 2028, said Independent TD Michael Lowry.

As a result, existing commercial suppliers of broadband, like ‘Imagine’, have an immediate and serious financial viability problem, he said.

“They are now closely examining their immediate future in the market and the outlook for them is bleak without Government support,” Deputy Lowry told the Taoiseach during Leaders Questions on Tuesday. “Imagine currently have 47,000 customers across every county in Ireland with 2,400 of these in Tipperary.

“These are predominantly rural connections. If Imagine is forced to wind down in the coming months without a planned transition to NBI there will be a broadband blackout for an unsuspecting 47,000 customers,” he said.

“The impact of this would be catastrophic. Allowing the unplanned wind-down of this commercial provider would set the impacted regions across the country back years.

The actual discussion between Michael Lowry and the Taoiseach in the Dáil yesterday https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2024-04-30/speech/31/

The Indo published an article on their financial problems back in February

What's their turnover, can't be more that 30 million per year with the current (shrinking) subscriptions base.

There is zero chance this company will survive the next 4 years, that Canadian investment company have lost their shirt on this one