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Ireland Is Bottom of the Global Pile in Telecommunications.

Ireland Is Bottom of the Global Pile in Telecommunications. Comreg have asserted recently that “broadband is working” in Ireland which demonstrates how far removed our regulator (Comreg) is from reality. The reality is that vast swathes of the country still cannot get decent broadband or are relegated to mobile midband products. This is a Map showing where DSL is currently available in Ireland. DSL1 is up to 8mbits and DSL2 up to 24mbits. Most eircom exchanges use the older technology. Clearly, the problems are attributable to a failure in decisive regulation. The endless rounds of consultations, without ever reaching a...

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Response to “Next Generation Broadband in Ireland”

We would like to observe that we find it very difficult to approach this document as it appears to proceed from the core assumption that there are no NGN assets in the state. There are a number of operational NGN networks already , particularly the ESB and eircom core . Yet no data is forthcoming on  their operation and traffic growth and on the advantages that appertain to their being operational . We have had an operational NGN in Ireland for 6 years ….surely we must have learnt something from that and from which we can push its advantages closer...

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Further Input to Consultation Document No. 09/39 on Local Loop Unbundling (‘LLU’) and Sub Loop Unbundling (‘SLU’) Monthly Rental Charges

In response to: http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/ComReg0962.pdf Comreg Note “In Consultation Document No. 09/39, ComReg expressed the preliminary view that 1,600 lines represented a highly conservative point at which to draw the boundary between those exchanges that are considered viable for unbundling during the control period (large exchanges) and those that are not (small exchanges). ComReg now believes that a threshold of exchanges containing at least 2,500 lines is appropriate because: In operator responses to Consultation Document No. 09/39, the majority of operators believed that a cut-off of 1,600 lines was inappropriately low. A number of the operators indicated that the cut-off point...

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LLU announcement – too little too late

LLU announcement “too little too late” IrelandOffline today welcomed the European Commission’s approval for a price reduction of 25% in the prices eircom can charge for LLU (local loop unbundling). IrelandOffline also agree that “Broadband competition in Ireland is currently being held up by the high access prices Eircom charges” as mentioned by EU Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding. Commenting on the announcement Ireland Offlline spokesperson Eamonn Wallace said ” The LLU process is now TEN whole years under (in)active consideration in Ireland.[1] The first consultation on LLU in Ireland was started 10 years ago”[2] This announcement may be too late...