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This in The Sunday Tribune!

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  • 29-06-2003 10:38pm
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    mike65
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    On page 11 in the business section
    Internet Lobby Groups Efforts Pay Off

    Minister Dermot Ahern and UTV may have been grabbing the headlines last week for the long awaited introduction of flat rate internet access, but there were other more important players
    in the battle to force eircom to allow flat-rate products to be sold. Step foward Ireland Offline, a pressure group formed two years ago that has made itself into a proffesional, credible
    lobbying force in almost no time at all. It was meeting with
    ministers almost as soon as it was formed and is the only group with the users interests at heart.

    The volenteer organisation has made a real difference to the internet in Ireland, and last week its efforts finally bore fruit. Flat rate access is long, long overdue and the government, eircom and the regulators should all be ashamed that it took so long, and Ireland Offline should be justly proud that it happened at all.

    Can't say fairer... :)

    Mike.


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    Paddy20
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    Well done, The Sunday Tribune. Lets have more of the same from the rest of the media!, Magazines, Radio, TV Channels, Local Papers etc etc.

    Paddy20;)


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    bk
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    Here, here, IOFFL finally gets its well deserved recognition.

    It takes a newspaper to say what we all here on boards should be saying. Thanks to all the IOFFL members, supporters and the committee for all your hard work.

    I don't think any pressure group has ever formed and become so influential in such a short time in Ireland. And all of it done over the internet, in a completely open and accountable manner and with a geographically dispersed membership.

    I believe in the future IOFFL will be held up as a model for many future pressure groups.

    In fact the whole IOFFL story deserves at least a half page article all to its self, it is an amazing story of people power.


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