IrelandOffline Briefing Documents

We prepare briefing documentation to support our claims and press releases. The documents serve, generally, as technical background reading to topics in the news, and are listed below.

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• NBS briefing document
  IrelandOffline evaluates the decisions behind the awarding of the National Broadband Scheme to 3 Ireland, a 3G operator, with a detailed analysis of the technology involved and why it is Midband, rather than Broadband, and why many users will experience no better than poor dial up speeds. Download.
• Irish Rural Link NBS Analysis
  Irish Rural Link is a non-profit organisation, which represents rural community groups and associations at a national and international level. Download.