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Eircom Broadband Network

  • 06-03-2006 1:45pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 48


    Should the Government buy the Network side of Eircom from Babcock and Brown and let its fibre Management Company Enet Manage the network for it

    What do you think :)


Comments

  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,848 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    Yes, the gov should buy back the network. They should have never sold it in the first place. They have learned that lesson, they are keeping the ESB network while selling off the retail arm.

    However it should be on the condition that they:

    1) Invest heavily in fixing the network.
    2) Support and fix the LLU process.
    3) don't give any favourable access to Eircom.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭zuma


    Damn right....but not before a detailed report is completed costing tens of millions :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 919 ✭✭✭jbkenn


    madboggar wrote:
    Should the Government buy the Network side of Eircom from Babcock and Brown and let its fibre Management Company Enet Manage the network for it

    What do you think :)

    The Government can't, and won't, buy back Eircom, or any part thereof.

    jbkenn


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,087 ✭✭✭Duiske


    madboggar wrote:
    Should the Government buy the Network side of Eircom from Babcock and Brown and let its fibre Management Company Enet Manage the network for it

    What do you think :)

    Would be the ideal solution, but could not see it happening. Bertie Ahern knows only to well that, rightly or wrongly, the majority of those stung in the Eircom flotation blame the gov for mis-leading them. So for him to suggest buying the network back for millions of euros of tax-payers money would be nothing short of political suicide.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Blaster99


    Yes, let's bring back Telecom Eireann, that shining light of forward thinking telcos. There is a thing called regulation, perhaps we can try that route first.


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