Comreg go on a 4 week long Jolly to Geneva

spongebob

Most long conferences go on for a week. Comreg have found one that takes 4 weeks. Great sez Comreg , we'll have some of that.

They made sure nobody asked them about Chorus licences and things and stuff by Announcing they were away for 4 weeks.......Here On Their Website . Whos left to deal with the High Court case against Eircom next week?

M

SkepticOne

Bet they won't even send us a postcard.

zz03

Originally posted by Muck
Most long conferences go on for a week. Comreg have found one that takes 4 weeks. Great sez Comreg , we'll have some of that.

They made sure nobody asked them about Chorus licences and things and stuff by Announcing they were away for 4 weeks.......Here On Their Website . Whos left to deal with the High Court case against Eircom next week?

Perhaps it also explains the early publication of the Apr-June 2003 ComReg Quarterly Report?

One wonders what the cut-off date was for the rather unimpressive (but not unexpected given the pricing and dysfunctional marketing) DSL figures in this report?

If these people were in the accounting business, we'd be seeing annual reports for the y/e 31 Dec in mid Nov?

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andrew163

i bet they'll have access to a good broadband connection in geneva :rolleyes:

SkepticOne

Originally posted by zz03
Perhaps it also explains the early publication of the Apr-June 2003 ComReg Quarterly Report?

I see once again, they have included ISDN in their broadband figures in the commentary section of the report. Well done ComReg.

Xian

In 2003 the key issues under discussion include:
...
Achieving global frequency allocations for Radio Local Area Network (RLAN) systems in frequency bands around 5 GHz that are becoming popular in Europe and which are already being used to provide broadband access in Ireland;

spongebob

Around 5.4Ghz (ISTR)

Europe has a standard called Hiperlan
The US has 802.11g

They overlap but not perfectly.

Essentially Hiperlan should be put to bed in favour of 802.11g

The 5.8Ghz band is another that does not overlap. In the US it is also known as the U-NII band.

While 802.11g will not be licenced, the power output allowed in the 5.8Ghz band is betwen 6 and 20 times more, only the base statoins need be licenced here. Again some standardisaton will help to create and develop standards such as Wimax(802.16) from which we will get enormous economies of scale over the next 3-4 years.

Still dunno why it takes 4 weeks when the issues were asubstantively agreed 2 years ago.

M

Xian

Just because there are emu farms here, doesn't mean the Minister for Agriculture can go to CAP negotiations saying we're an emu-based economy :rolleyes:

zz03

Originally posted by andrew163
i bet they'll have access to a good broadband connection in geneva :rolleyes:

No doubt they will.

To be fair we can't blame ComReg for the 4 week duration of the event in GVA. It is run by a UN organization. The UN is controlled by 190 governments. Surely the ultimate in state control and political xyzery.

If they didn't turn up and some unfavourable to Ireland decision was taken, we'd be screaming and shouting!

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spongebob

450Mhz (out of a total 1000Mhz) allocated to BB in the 5Ghz band

move over 802.11b