Mediasat aka Eircom Satelllite Liquidated

Sponge Bob · 22-03-2008 10:35AM #1

http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/mediasatellite-crashes-into-liquidation-with-losses-of-e4m-1324097.html

The company's demise has prompted 18 jobs losses, while Mediasatellite's 300 direct subscribers have been without satellite broadband since Wednesday evening.

This could mean their eircom customers will be OK but I don't know.

A spokeswoman for Eircom confirmed the company was looking for "alternatives" for its 130 customers who used Mediasatellite for their satellite downloads.

Zaphod · 22-03-2008 01:29PM

Irish Independent
Mediasatellite's collapse comes just months after the firm secured a major contract from travel distribution giant Gailileo and announced plans to rise €1m through the Business Expansion Scheme (BES).

Travel distribution giant? The hack from the Indo hasn't heard of the multibillion euro European GPS system?

Although how a bunch of satellite ISP resellers in Cork ever managed to land the deal with the ESA is a mystery to me.

MickLimk · 22-03-2008 04:35PM

Galileo International is the company that maintains a booking system that most travel agents use to reserve flights, hotels and car hire etc. http://galileo.com/galileo/en-ie/?cc=y

Most useful thing they provide for ordinary individuals is their viewtrip website where you can see your entire travel itinerary in one place.

bigpaddy2004 · 22-03-2008 06:28PM

It looks like nbb are after getting 300 of Mediasat's 1-way customers back on line!

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single10571

Sponge Bob · 22-03-2008 07:48PM

I think the 1 ways were on a resold skydsl package .

bigpaddy2004 · 22-03-2008 08:49PM

Sponge Bob wrote: »

I think the 1 ways were on a resold skydsl package .

No, they definitley were not. I dont many an installation for them and they were activated through ses-astra.

watty · 23-03-2008 11:03AM

Skydsl & SES-Astra activation are not inherently mutually exclusive, but I don't know who is right.

Anyway, the "1-way" users are just dialup Internet + accellerator. They would not have lost internet. It's the "Two-Way" true Satellite Internet users that have the real problem.

bigpaddy2004 · 23-03-2008 12:33PM

I probably put that wrong, Mediasat were reselling Astra's broadband, both 1-way and 2-way. Medisat had nothing to to with Teles-skydsl.

Mediasat aka Eircom Satelllite Liquidated

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