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What % of consumers/households in Ireland have internet access?

xha1r · 2006-01-28 12:22:14

Hey, I cant find this information anywhere. Would someone kindly be able to offer to give me, or perhaps even link me to a website which gives the % of consumers in Ireland who have access to the internet? Or in other words, the % of households in Ireland with internet access?

28-01-2006 1:22pm

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xha1r

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Hey,

I cant find this information anywhere. Would someone kindly be able to offer to give me, or perhaps even link me to a website which gives the % of consumers in Ireland who have access to the internet? Or in other words, the % of households in Ireland with internet access?

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#2 28-01-2006 1:25pm

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http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054875027

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#3 28-01-2006 2:04pm

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Well most households have telephone line, therefore have internet access.

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#4 28-01-2006 2:47pm

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Phone lines have fallen by nearly 20% possibly due to poor service coupled with most expensive line rental in Europe.

Many phone lines don't really work for dialup.

No-one really knows what proportion of lines on aDSL enabled exchanges actually work for BB (anecdotal evidence suggests maybe 25%).

I don't think anyone has accurate figures. Comreg doesn't measure it the same way as anyone else so as to make the figures look better.

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#5 28-01-2006 5:22pm

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It appears to be below 40%; this country is quite backwards in terms of the Internet and PC penetration. It will hurts us in the long run.

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#6 28-01-2006 5:45pm

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In terms of daily use it might even be below 10%.

I know a lot of people that are on dialup. If I post a letter even in a few days time, they will read that before today's email. Maybe never read the email.

About 1/2 the people I know with Internet usage have broadband. Most of the other 1/2 want it but can't get it. One person had BB but went back to dialup as it was costing him more!

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#7 28-01-2006 5:51pm

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Well thats what you get when we were forced to pay an arm and a leg for DialUp!!!

€130 for my last dialup bill with eircom.....now I pay less than a third of that for a connection 70 times faster from BT!!!

Those DialUp charges left a nasty taste in the average potential DSL customers mouth...and the idea of "untimed internet/freeing up phone line" access is actually beyond most people.

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