expose my naive logic for getting ADSL on my local exchange??

Snark · 28-11-2002 05:20PM #1

maybe this has been raised before, but let's try again.

* ADSL not on my local exchange in sligo and probably not a snowballs chance in hell...

however

* if i did some free marketing for Eircom/ESAT (extolling the virtues, uses and benefits of always on) for friends and neighbours, who also use said same exchange.

* through this cunning persuasion, i manage to get 24 callers to register their interest with E/E for a connection.

Now crush my naivety if you will. the fact that i now have a full quota of possible users registered in the one exchange for ADSL, does this improve the chance of delivery in any way???

pork99 · 28-11-2002 05:55PM

yes you are naive!

Its a different business model in this country

Other developed countries:
make a profit by meeting market demands for goods & services by producing and selling these at a competitive price

Ireland:
make an obscene amount of profit by greasing the palm of some warrior of destiny who gratefully facilitates you in stitching up some market and giving you a license to gouge the consumer

so were are not talking about a normal market here, eircom could not give a Donald Duck whether theres enough demand for 20 dsl exchanges were you live

DC · 28-11-2002 06:10PM

No, you're not that naive.

Your only chance lies with Esat. They have said before that they would be launching a web-site to register interest at. No word of it yet.

If you go and get people to sign some sort of petition and give it to Esat, I feel that they would take it seriously and feed it into their calculations of exchanges to enable.

It may not produce an instant result, but it might push it ahead a bit.

Dustaz · 28-11-2002 06:46PM

This approach is the one taken in england to get BT to upgrade rural exchanges that pass a certain threshold of interested users. ( http://www.adsl4antrim.co.uk/ for example).

I somehow doubt that our beloved incumbant telco would be this forward thinking however.

expose my naive logic for getting ADSL on my local exchange??

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