Dialup Dempsey is Right On Track

Sponge Bob

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(better save that lads it will disappear next week)

Eircoms Analogue line dialup revenue in the last quarter was EXACTLY the same as last year at €16m. Voice traffic dropped to €100m. Noel will be so proud of them so he will.

(and not forgetting this online resource will also disappear permanently next week )

eircomtribunal

Sponge Bob wrote:

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(and not forgetting this online resource will also disappear permanently next week )

In the new SEC filing Eircom now says that 87% (up from 77% in last years) of lines connected to DSL enabled exchanges can carry the DSL signal.

ADSL network
We have also undertaken rollout of ADSL. As of 31 March 2006, we had 447 Alcatel ADSL sites commissioned (with 435 launched), covering approximately 1.78 million working paths. Approximately 87% of paths (1.55 million) connected to these sites would be capable of carrying ADSL at speeds from 1Mb/s to 4Mb/s.

The question is:
1.55 million working paths, out of how many existing working paths? Can't find that figure in the file.
And even more important. We want to know how many customers can avail of DSL. Big difference to the figure about working paths.

Would the total number of "working paths" be the number of nearly 2 million ("overall number of PSTN/IDSN channels") referred to here?

While the number of PSTN/ISDN channels provided through its retail business reduced from 1.852 million to 1.743 million in the year ending 31 March 2006, the overall number of PSTN/IDSN channels provided by eircom increased from 1.982 million to 1.992 million when account is taken of the take-up of approximately 233,000 currently active WLR lines. We believe that demand for ISDN access will slow in the future as data growth is increasingly served by other new data services; for example, as we encourage data users to migrate to ADSL. We will continue to promote ISDN access as an upgrade to PSTN, as a two-line voice/data service. We expect that PSTN access volumes in the future will be flat or decline slightly, due to migration to ISDN and as a result of voice traffic being carried on mobile lines.

ISDN is still very much on the books!
P.

Sponge Bob

It is kinda there, all PSTN access channels + half the BRI isdn access channels is the total of copper pairs ( bar a few thousand PRIs cancelled out by Rurtels and 3.5Ghz PSTN channels)

the second isdn channel or the dsl is counted as a supplementary access channel on a copper pair.

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Sponge Bob wrote:

From Here

(better save that lads it will disappear next week)

Eircoms Analogue line dialup revenue in the last quarter was EXACTLY the same as last year at €16m. Voice traffic dropped to €100m. Noel will be so proud of them so he will.

(and not forgetting this online resource will also disappear permanently next week )

Interesting to see how eircom, a monopoly enterprise whose revenues in the quarter increased from €399 to €483 million, with operations that are based on running a few dozen switches and related interconnection infrastructure (much of which is 20 or more years old) went from profit to loss compared with the same period last year.

Interest payable (ie "finance costs") went from €37 million for the quarter to €193 million – i.e. getting close to a billion for a full year. With interest rate increases in the pipeline it might reach or exceed this 10 digit number.

While this company will probably be able to pay its debts as they fall due, thanks to their comreg aided monopoly and suckers who willingly pay them on the nail every two months, they are surely bankrupt from a financial engineering point of view – i.e. access to the fresh capital required to modernise the network to fibre, etc?

Aside from the fact that they have no experience in telecommunications, the B&B holding company is smaller than eircom (annual revenues under €600 million) and substantially indebted itself (debt up from $1.8 to $4 billion between 2004 and 05). More worryingly, much of B&B’s revenue appears to be of a one-off nature (ie if the Oz economy turns negative, B&B might end up screwing large sums of monopoly cash from eircom to stay afloat itself and keep the $267 million executive bonuses flowing smoothly [their executive bonuses are over 25% their revenues!!!] – money that eircom customers will needless to say have to stump up).

Not a good position for Ireland Inc to have let itself get into.

Is it any wonder that His Lordship of the 57 varieties is readying the nation for going back to dial-up!

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http://www.babcockbrown.com/media/21102/annual%20report.pdf