This is probably the first attempt by any government in a developed country to directly tax the victims of its own policy failures for the policy failures. People paying for motor tax by post or over the counter are to face penalties as part of a bid to drive more business online proposes the Local [...]
NewSpeak in telecommunications marketing When is unlimited not unlimited? When it is offered by an Irish Telco. IrelandOffline are today calling for an end to the misleading practice of describing telecommunications packages as unlimited. We now have a plethora of “unlimited” offerings by various telcos yet they all have limits. They are now hidden behind [...]
What are the Mongolians Doing Right? Today IrelandOffline are calling on Minister Eamon Ryan to deliver concrete actions to get Irish Internet Speed and Quality up to that of Mongolia. Commenting on the results of this global survey Eamonn Wallace Chairman of IrelandOffline said: “He cannot do this from the RTÉ studios. We want him [...]
The National Broadband Scheme. A Ghost Broadband System for our Ghost Estates. 3 Ireland have silently announced that they are unilaterally changing the terms of the NBS contract. They will be dropping the data allowance for customers from 15GB a month of data down to 10GB of data. This clearly demonstrates that the 3 Ireland [...]
Price gouging comes to Dublin eircom today have announced their “Next Generation Broadband” promising speeds of up to 8MB to all subscribers, they claim to have also finally addressed the contention issue (which they call congestion). What is not in the headlines is the subtle but important change from a speed based model to a [...]
