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IrelandOffline, a leading consumer advocacy group in telecommunications warmly welcomes the announcement that a major transatlantic fibre will be landing at Belmullet in County Mayo. The cable is low latency (sub 60ms) and is a huge increase in the inter-connectivity into Ireland. The route this cable takes is only 5200Kms which is the shortest route across the Atlantic. The fibre consists of 100 x 100 Gbps per Fiber Pair (60Tbit Total Design Capacity and is Future Proofed) Eamonn Wallace, Chairman of IrelandOffline said : “This is a great day for Ireland as this fibre cable will bring much needed international...

IrelandOffline, a leading consumer advocacy group for telecommunications, have to question the commitment of our new Minister to his brief in telecommunications. We looked forward to a notably intelligent Minister engaging with and changing the  “do nothing” culture that has ruined  his Department and his Country, however we just see a continuation of the old tired nonsense coming out of his Department. Recycling may be good but the continual recycling of tired old excuses is wearing very thin after 6 months.. Eamonn Wallace,chairman of IrelandOffline, stated “Thus far the new Minister has been parroting word for word the same old...

What The Ghanaians Can Teach The Irish! Eamonn Wallace Chairman of IrelandOffline wishes to remind Pat Rabbitte that under Section 13 of the Communications Regulation Act 2002(1)  it is possible for a minister to give a policy direction to Comreg. No other Minister since Dermot Ahern has given such a statutory direction. We sincerely hope that Minister Rabbitte will prove to be a different and decisive Minister? One  that looks after the interests of Irish consumers, the forgotten voice in the NewERA planning. Information recently received by IrelandOffline suggests that eircom is finally switching all its Fixed Wireless Access (FWA)...

IrelandOffline Quarterly Report Q3 2011 The latest Irelandoffline Quarterly report, based as always on Ookla Netindex Data shows Broadband Speeds in Ireland are improving but only at a glacial rate in the last quarter and with a marginal relative drop in download speeds against our EU competitor countries. In Q3 2011 Ireland’s Position is as follows. Ireland is 72nd in the World for Upload Speeds and 24th out of 27 in the EU (79th in Q2 2011) Ireland is 45th in the World for Download Speeds and 23rd out of 27 in the EU (49th in Q2 2011) Ireland is...

IrelandOffline has performed a technical capacity analysis on total satellite broadband throughput metrics in recent weeks. This analysis was conducted once Hylas-1 and Ka-Sat went live. Hylas-1 and Ka-Sat between them more than quadrupled satellite “broadband” capacity in Ireland. IrelandOffline has come to the inescapable conclusion that the total capacity of all satellite broadband providers operating in Ireland is less than the backhaul available to the rather small Roscahill exchange in County Galway and indeed that of many small rural exchanges. Satellite is an ideal broadcast mechanism for television but owing to natural constraints it is not suitable for large...