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Ireland Has the Highest Percentage of Slow Internet Connections in Europe.
The quarterly speed survey released today by Akamai1, the company that actually delivers windows patches to your computer every month, has found that Ireland has:
1. The Highest percentage of SLOW connections in Europe at 3.4%2.
2. The 4th lowest percentage of FAST connections over 5mbits in [...]
IrelandOffline question the commitment of the Minister to Irish broadband consumers
IrelandOffline recently did some research on the Irish governments website http://www.broadband.gov.ie and particularly on the supplier list.(1)
We ask Minister Ryan to explain the grossly inaccurate and out of date website his department runs. This shows how low Broadband Provision to Irish [...]
Introduction
We hear a lot of advertising for mobile “broadband” in the media these days, so with that in mind we in IrelandOffline did some research into this new and wondrous type of internet access.
Frankly we were shocked by what we found out…
It’s patently obvious that this method of internet access is really only “dialup with [...]
Opinion columns from IrelandOffline members and guest writers.
IrelandOffline have been informed that Comreg and the National Consumer Agency are now actively supporting the efforts of the Advertising Standards Authority to accurately inform the Irish consumer of the standards that ISPs should adhere too when advertising broadband to consumers. This is in response to a profusion of ‘up to ‘ offers in the [...]
What is the problem?
There is an explosion in products claiming to be “broadband”, in fact many of these are mobile “midband” products.
IrelandOffline examine some of the consequences of this explosion in these products.
The term midband is used to describe these products as opposed to broadband as these products are
really dial up substitutes and the speeds [...]
In this piece we examine the most common excuses trotted out as to why Ireland is not a world leader in the Broadband stakes. We are constantly reminded that Ireland is an e-knowledge economy, the e-hub of Europe. We examine these issues from the perspective of broadband.
Facts
Throughout the last last few years, we have had [...]
