Why is Noel Dempsey Blatantly Selling Eircom Broadband

Sponge Bob

Ok

Go to the appalingly badly maintained http://broadband.gov.ie/

search for a town with ADSL , Mountbellew County Galway

a fine list of VSAT Providers only appears. But Mountbellew has ADSL and Lastmile on the eastern fringe too.

On top is A Line Tester for DSL

Click on it. Enter a sampler of the following numbers

090 9679100
090 9679101
090 9679102
090 9679103
090 9679104
090 9679105
090 9679106
090 9679107
090 9679108
090 9679109
090 9679110
090 9679200
090 9679201
090 9679202
090 9679203
090 9679204
090 9679205
090 9679206
090 9679207
090 9679208
090 9679209
090 9679250
090 9679300

Hey presto. Eircom want to sell you DSL Broadband...but what of the other Bitstream Operators who would equally be happy to sell you Broadband and why does the site not clarify this equality of access and why is the technology choice presented as simply??


Satellite or Eircom !!!!!

We can't have this what with the government spending loads of money pimping their site, can we ???

kaizersoze

Sure it uses the Eircom line checker. :eek:

Sponge Bob

kaizersoze wrote:

It uses the Eircom line checker. :eek:

Which immediately leads to the eircom 'sign up here' link :eek:

Why does the government not have a line 'meta checker' in place which gets the results and presents every BITSTREAM operators sign up page as a series of links, randomly rotated or alphabetically listed I care not ???

damien

Is it National Tinfoil Hat Wearing Day today or what?

Sponge Bob

damien.m wrote:

Is it National Tinfoil Hat Wearing Day today or what?

Its 'clean up your crappy websites Noel ' day

kaizersoze

damien.m wrote:

Is it National Tinfoil Hat Wearing Day today or what?

I have mine on but stuff is still comming through.:)

jwt

Jam the signals by sticking your head inside a microwave and switching it on.

Absolute guarantee that you won't be bothered by anything anymore.


John

Solair

I think the Government regularly forgets that eircom plc is NOT Bord Telecom Eireann and thus shouldn't be treated any differently from any other commerical telco.

They seem to often rely on eircom to act in the public interest as it would have had to do when it was the state telco in the olden days.

Hotwheels

The service extends out (based on the numbers I checked) as far as Marless (hmm note to self, check sign for speiling next time ya pass) at the Roscommon turnoff (N63 Galway side) Just about 750ish Mtrs from me....

The online checker tells me that they can't pre-qualify me at this time and to please call our BB team...I've never tried numbers from the other side...

On the upside of things I was getting loads of calls wanting to know if I was happy with my provider Soooo I tells them you gimmy me BB and I'll swop...they never call back...So all's not too bad....Well apart from the fact I have to post in IT assignments...Coz I sure as well can't email/upload them..
Ahh well..Time to wind up da telly again...Jim Kirk is on....@ 7

paulm17781

I think you've all forgotten it is an awful website! You can't expect those poor folk in the department to pu up evey bitstream operator can you? :rolleyes:

Mr. Presentable

Noel Dempsey is a miserable, short******, vote seeking *****, with a penchant for *****, ****** and **&^&*&. That's why

cgarvey

Wow, compelling argument there nipplenuts.. not.

Blaster99

It's difficult to disagree with him, though.

jrey1981

the idiot spent half a million advertising broadband, knowing full well loads of us who are offline cannot get it and have no hope of getting it any time soon.

Why not spend that money subsidising Vodafone 3G rollout to a few rural areas.

The stupid little ****ing $&%£ - completely agree with nipplenuts.