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Eircom Broadband Available on 71% of lines in Cork

  • 23-07-2004 10:52AM
    #1
    damien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭


    Ad in the Money And Jobs section of the Irish Examiner claims this:

    "Eircom Broadband is now Available on 71% of lines in Cork"

    Can anyone tell me if this is true or false ? I'm thinking it's false so how do I go about disproving it and talking to the Advertising Standards People ?


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  • #2
    damien
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,291 ✭✭✭damien


    And in today's ENN:

    The paper also reports that just 3 percent of Irish homes use broadband services, according to a study by Amarach. Almost one-quarter of respondents in a survey of 1,000 people said that broadband was still too expensive, or that they would not use the Internet frequently enough to justify signing up for the service.

    Thirty-six percent of all Irish homes now have access to the Internet, said Amarach, an increase of 4 percent in the past 12 months.


  • #3
    Ripwave
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,188 ✭✭✭Ripwave


    Originally posted by damien.m
    Ad in the Money And Jobs section of the Irish Examiner claims this:

    "Eircom Broadband is now Available on 71% of lines in Cork"

    Can anyone tell me if this is true or false ? I'm thinking it's false so how do I go about disproving it and talking to the Advertising Standards People ?
    It probably means that the exchanges that have been DSL enabled in Cork cover 71% of the lines in Cork.

    But when it comes down to it, the only people who know how many lines pass or fail the test are Eircom, and they are not required to release that information to the public, so there is no way to disprove it, unfortunately.


  • #4
    DonegalMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 477 ✭✭DonegalMan


    BT already have broadband available to 78% of households across Northern Ireland.

    Eircom boast about reaching an availability of 71% of our second largest city (and they are probably exaggerating)

    Jaysus wept, that says it all.


  • #5
    eircomtribunal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭eircomtribunal


    Originally posted by damien.m
    Ad in the Money And Jobs section of the Irish Examiner claims this:

    "Eircom Broadband is now Available on 71% of lines in Cork"

    Can anyone tell me if this is true or false ? I'm thinking it's false so how do I go about disproving it and talking to the Advertising Standards People ?

    Damien, I've made a complaint on the 7th July about an Eircom ad with a similar context, where they boast about now having 1 million broadband lines, and thus offering bb to the vast majority of their customers.

    I complained that the ad was misleading by exaggeration, as Eircom should not have claimed that the 1 million lines they have on bb enabled exchanges are bb enabled lines.

    ASAI informed me they were following up the complaint. In theory Eircom would now have to state to the ASAI how the story with their figures really is.

    While the ASAI are generally a lame duck, we should still use them whenever possible. It is easy enough to make a short complaint from the form on there website: http://www.asai.ie

    P.


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