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Comreg Review Squatted 2.3Ghz Rurtel Band and 3.5Ghz band to see if it actually used

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  • 09-06-2006 9:30pm
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    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭


    The confirmation is in an article in the irish Times business section , page 7 , by Eamonn McGrane.

    Jim Connolly , senior Comreg spectrum person said to the Times that Comreg would

    1. "see what eircom is using that spectrum for "

    and

    2. "Taking some of it back with a view to making it available"

    Jim, we told you a long time ago and pretty often since that it was unused but the coverage target is to be met by the end of this month . Hopefully the poodle will not only take it back and recycle it (50Mhz or more even) but will fine eircom for taking the piss as well.

    Then again Comreg could do what they did when they last reviewed eircoms glaring non performance and squatting , adjust the target down and not fine them at all.

    I live in hope....but not very much of it :(


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    eircomtribunal
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    Sponge Bob wrote:
    I live in hope....but not very much of it :(
    Just look what ComReg did, when Eircom – after having cranked up the line rental by over 25%, which it was allowed under the condition that the limiting lower quartile rule (the lower quarter of bills must not rise more than inflation) would be scrapped, but had to be replaced by Eircom offering a vulnerable user scheme, so that the lower bill payers would not get screwed immensely by the line rental increase (which in those cased makes the bigger part of the overall bill, and thus a line rental increase would crank up the bills of those users mightily) – introduced but cleverly hid the vulnerable user scheme and a red-faced John Doherty had to admit to the Oireachtas Committee that only a few hundred of the quarter of lower bill payers had signed up with the vulnerable user scheme: ComReg did absolutely nothing, despite making promises to the Oireachtas Committee. And the Oireachtas Committee, to my knowledge and to their shame did also not follow up.

    So Eircom will say that it offers wireless to 70% of population. End of story. Only a few takers? Well, no wonder when we cover 90% of phone lines with DSL.
    P.


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