Dear Pat, We know you have been awfully busy with the first 100 days of government, and all that, and we are releasing this on day 93 of the 100. We are sure your civil servants have snowed you under with reams and reams of elegiac and unctuous paperwork explaining why they can do nothing and why they will do nothing for their country. They are past masters at producing sumptuous can’t do and won’t do memos. You must be awfully tired by now having to read yourself into all of them. We’d be delighted to help you understand the...

Irelandoffline Demands Immediate Restatement of Deliberate 3G Coverage Misinformation Supplied by Comreg to EU for the years 2009 and 2010. Irelandoffline has analysed the data provided by National Regulators to the EU in respect of the EU Digital Agenda ( i2010) and we will be publishing our greatly expanded BB Speedtest quarterly report in time for the 1st EU Digital Assembly meeting in less than a fortnight. The most important data is the Coverage data. We looked at three key measures which are: 1. Fixed Broadband Coverage by Population Nationally 92.7% in 2010 (1) 2. Fixed Broadband Coverage By Population...

Dear Pat, IrelandOffline has studied data on Investment By The Telecommunications Industry in Ireland as supplied by Comreg/DCENR to the OECD and as separately supplied to The EU Commission. We have found some glaring discrepancies and most particularly in the data supplied by Comreg/DCENR to the OECD over the past decade. These discrepancies deliberately overstate Investment in Telecommunications in Ireland by around $1bn or near enough 2 average years of real investment by the Irish Telecommunications industry over the period in question to 2007. It is a gross overstatement. NOW is the time to: a) Correct the dataset for the...

New government same old nonsense IrelandOffline, a leading consumer advocacy group for telecommunications, has become aware of a written answer given by the new Minster for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Pat Rabbitte(1). This answer is identical in wording and content to answers given by the previous Minister, Eamon Ryan. This calls into question any idea that the new Minister might be considering any changes in policy, at minimum, it illustrates a distinct lack of imagination amongst the staff of the Department. Myths portrayed as facts The Minister’s response to a question from FG TD Denis Naughten starts – “The...

IrelandOffline Quarterly Broadband Speed and Quality Survey Q1 2011 This is the fourth in the series of IrelandOffline quarterly survey, continuing from Q2 2011 when Ookla launched their invaluable Netindex Speed Test Site site. Between Q2 2010 and Q4 2010 the situation worsened dramatically to the extent that we in IrelandOffline commented in the Q4 2010 report that “Download speeds in Ireland are now less than HALF the EU Average which is 11.37mbits Upload speeds in Ireland are just over one third of the EU Average which is 2.82mbits Average Irish DOWNLOAD speeds have declined from 5.94mbits to 5.51mbits since...