Noel Dempsey slurs commentators

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What have these two men in common?

Read how Noel's slurring of critical commentators at the latest broadband conferences brings him into proximity to certain other politicians.

As always we offer help and guidance.

May I suggest to anybody to have a look into the latest citigroup report on eircom (and on the Irish Broadband/Internet/Telco/Regulation situation), linked to at the end of this ComWreck article.

P.

Sponge Bob

The most unpatriotic thing that any politician could do is to pretend that all is well when it is obviously not so.

Telling us that 80% of lines are connected to exchanges that are enabled is a bad joke. We know that at most 75% of households are connected to these exchanges and thats before line failures are taken into account. Comreg told the Tribune its 75% of households last weekend.

Now This is what eircom said to the SEC , from August 2005 Filing

Approximately 77% of paths (1.17 million) connected to these sites would be capable of carrying ADSL at speeds from 256 kbit/s to512 kbit/s

The number of households in Ireland that can therefore avail of 256k DSL today is 75%-(23% failures or distance limited households) = 57.75%.

Interestingly, Comwreck pointed out the effective results of the (then non functional) amber program in August last year. Thats because while eircom were passing lines capable of 1Mbit minimum they were reporting lines capable of 256k, the amber program floor, to the SEC in their filing. Eircom hinted to the SEC in August 2005 that they were marketing to households capable of 256k when they only started to do so properly in April 2006 because its only recently that those lines that are sub 1mbit but above 256k can order through the amber program .

The situation today is simple. 75% of households are connected to an exchange with DSL and at most 77% of them can get 256k DSL BB or higher from eircom .

Thats 57.75% Of Households Noel .

In an advanced informatic economy such as Estonia or Slovenia that would be 80% , its your job as minister to effectively close that gap not to peddle bull**** to the Irish people at conferences.

damien

Noel wrote:

It is fully anticipated that we will reach our target of 400,000 broadband subscribers by the end of this year.

We too can spin. Should we respin this as the "Target to be 2nd last in the EU"?

damien

http://www.enn.ie/frontpage/news-9685673.html

Meanwhile, communications lobby group ComWreck criticised Minister Dempsey on Tuesday for remarks he made in a recent address to the Galway Broadband Conference. ComWreck likened the minister to North Korean premier Kim Jong Il because of a comment Dempsey reportedly made about criticism hurting the country's international reputation -- a common theme in North Korea.

Sponge Bob

would that not be Kim Jong NoIL ??? aka KJN aka the Dear Leader .