Goverment Broadband site - to signpost all offerings

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THE Department of Communications has launched a new consumer information website designed to direct consumers and small businesses to the most cost-effective broadband in their locality.

At www.broadband.gov.ie the public can also check on broadband delivery by DSL, cable-modem, fixed wireless or satellite, with information on more than 800 localities in the country.

Minister for Communications, Dermot Ahern said: "It is a one-stop shop for broadband buyers, offering details on suppliers and prices.

"It also gathers information about various broadband products and prices into one place so that people can make comparisons easily."

Meanwhile, Eircom has introduced a wholesale broadband trigger programme which is designed to allow consumers directly influence the rollout of the high-speed internet services in their areas.

A trigger level represents the requisite number of customers needed to enable broadband in an area and trigger numbers have been set for the first 150 communities with a population of less than 1,500.

Once a site hits the requisite trigger, the company said it will automatically add this site to its broadband infrastructure build programme, and it will take between six and nine months to install broadband thereafter.

sprogman

Not a bad site - and seems to be pretty up to date.... Though should have been like this 3 years ago - but hey things can only get better