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For many years Virgin Media provided broadband and TV services over coaxial cable and charged handsomely for the service. Admittedly the service was quite stable and probably worth the premium price being charged for the service in comparison to XDSL services (broadband over the phone line service) of that time. We’ve been contacted by a number of Virgin customers who are being charged up to 100€ for basic services whereas the norm for these services now is in the range of 30/40€ and they’ve been wondering why. With the advent of FIBRE to the home services that are becoming common...

https://www.analysysmason.com/research/content/articles/vmo2-fttp-upgrade-rdfi0   Virgin Media O2 is the largest cableco to announce a full FTTP upgrade 03 August 2021 | Research Rupert Wood Article | PDF (4 pages) | Fibre Infrastructure Strategies “Broadband is shifting to FTTP and disaggregated wholesale and retail; cablecos cannot afford to hang about.” Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) announced, in July 2021, that it will upgrade all 14.3 million homes that are currently passed by HFC to FTTP by 2028, adding to the 1.2 million recently built homes passed. The technology used will be XGS-PON. This is the largest HFC-to-FTTP network migration to have been announced anywhere in the world....

Please find easy access to the Comreg report on the MANs project. ComReg Report May 2020 and the covering letter: Covering letter to Minister from ComReg A number of FOIs requesting access to this document were refused, yet there seems to be nothing particularly “sensitive” in the document. Draw your own conclusions on the refusals… This document was prepared only for the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) on behalf of Department of Communications, Climate Action and the Environment (DCCAE)   This report was prepared for the purpose of determining enet progress in relation to the implementation of the recommendations as...

In light of the recent outbreak of the covid-19 (corona virus) some random thoughts on broadband are presented here: The job you were told couldn’t be done remotely can be done remotely, companies prefer to have “bums on seats” as it makes them look more important or much larger. Many disabled workers could have been working from home, but corporations and companies just didn’t want them to. The Internet is now a utility, not a luxury. Many companies have found out that their bandwidth requirements are simply not enough to meet the requirements of “remote working” and have had to...

Interesting submission written by Analysys Mason to the Oireachtas Committee that has not been published as yet…on the decision to overbuild Eir 300k (FVI) Commitment Agreement vs the other option of buying the Eir transit product to get to the Intervention Area