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.

The documents are in PDF format. To view them, you can use Adobe Reader which you can download for free at: .

• 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.
• IrelandOffline Quarterly Report Q2 2011 Details of the quarter 2 2001 state of the internet document. Download
• A guide to the Internet for policy makers  How the internet works. A useful guide to the internet for policy makers, politicians and others. (EDRI)