Dempseys Department and their Third World Satellite Tech Fixation

Sponge Bob

I fail to see the humour in this useless broadband.gov.ie site which is supposed to tell you whats available to you. A new nationwide fixed wireless operator has ' appeared' on the bloody thing. Dempsey is now selling Zonebroadband, another VSAT operator, as a nationwide Fixed Wireless operator.

Some dope working for Dempsey looked at the misleading zonebroadband home page and saw "Focused Wireless Satellite" written on it and decided OH!! that must be wireless

as for zonebroadband they are a rebrand as follows

"Today signals the launch of the Zonebroadband brand in Ireland and the UK. This follows the recent acquisition of wireless broadband suppliers ehotspot and Ildana and with Fastnet becomes one ‘umbrella’ brand to give the company a fresh new identity."

their old component parts (minus ildana) are still correctly listed in the VSAT bit of Dempseys site. I suppose the addition of Ildana bent the laws of physics as it tended to

lucernarian

How interesting you say Zone Broadband sponge.

It suffices to say they are the current favourites in ComReg aswell. I have been told that Zone Broadband is ComReg's answer to all bb availability questions.

1huge1

i for one fell for it until i read that you need a satellite dish and then i was thinking is this some new type of broadband that uses a dish that aint satellite sadly i was mistaken

eircomtribunal

To_be_confirmed wrote:

It suffices to say they are the current favourites in ComReg aswell. I have been told that Zone Broadband is ComReg's answer to all bb availability questions.

And we should not be astonished either.
After working 9 years for the incumbent, she specialised in Satellites for the EU.

She worked for nine years with Telecom Éireann (now Eircom), initially in a variety of engineering areas and later in the commercial area in the International Division. From 1989 to 1991 she worked in DGXIII (now DG Information Society) of the European Commission where she acted as an expert consultant to the Satellite Policy Unit.

Thanks to the idiotically heavy reliance on satellite for the schools broadband project, the "final" deadline to have all schools connected had to be pushed to March of this year, and, while most schools are now connected, the "final, final" deadline to have all of them covered, is now September.
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lucernarian

That's a revealation. Isolde worked in TÉ for 9 years...

What a narrowminded person, to continue recommending an outdated and limited technology. There are only 2 adequate uses for satellite IMO, one being digital TV and the other, the communications needs of Antartica stations and ocean and desert travel.

Is it that hard to use wireless backhaul to an ESB point of presence? It probaly is, what with all the spectrum eircom have for "testing purposes" and rurtel.

watty

It doesn't work too well in Antartica, except at the very edge.

1huge1

watty wrote:

It doesn't work too well in Antartica, except at the very edge.

whys that?

damien

1huge1 wrote:

whys that?

Bottom of the world, sats are around the equator generally.