Latest ComReg Business Survey

damien

Briefing document from IrelandOffline in regards to the ComReg survey
of businesses located here: http://comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/ComReg0634.pdf

Facts:

* Half of all Corporates have complained at least once to their phone service provider in the past year
(Page 19)

* 1/3 of all SMEs have complained at least once to their phone service provider in the past year. (Page 19)

* 48% of SMEs do not have broadband. 52.5% of SMEs are on broadband. 73% of SMEs use the Internet. Of them 72% use broadband products. (Page 39) The rest are still on antiquated Internet products which are not broadband - 19% on dialup, 9% on ISDN and 2% on Satellite

* 1/3 of SMEs who tried to get broadband could not not. (pg 46) This reflects a survey from the Chambers of Commerce of Ireland from 2005 which stated 30% of SMEs who tried to get broadband could not: http://www.chambers.ie/news/article.php?newsid=356

eircomtribunal

ComReg says that stupid companies sticking with narrowband are not aware that broadband is available everywhere now:

One in three (32%) of narrowband users claim that
no broadband service is available to them. However,
this could reflect lack of awareness more so than lack
of access. This may be particularly true for satellite
broadband which is available at any location nationally.

P.

damien

"ComReg survey shows there isn't a demand issue"

Cheers for backing us up lads.

eircomtribunal

damien.m wrote:

"ComReg survey shows there isn't a demand issue"

Cheers for backing us up lads.

You mean for example page 48, where businesses still on narrowband were asked: "Has your business attempted to upgrade to broadband?":

Almost half of all SME dial-up users claim to have attempted to connect to broadband. Regionally, those in Connaught/Ulster and Leinster (excluding Dublin) are more likely to have tried to upgrade.
• Three quarters have attempted to upgrade within the past 6 months
with half trying in the last month.

P.

probe

eircomtribunal wrote:

ComReg says that stupid companies sticking with narrowband are not aware that broadband is available everywhere now:

This may be particularly true for satellite
broadband which is available at any location nationally.

Satellite BB = BB on valium, with a bottle of vodka thrown in for good measure.

Of course ComReg won't know this because they are based in downtown Dublin. Furthermore they can suck as much cash out of the industry as they need in license fees to pay for their OC-3* or whatever sized pipe they have...

probe


*FYI real broadband speeds:

OC-1 = 51.85 Mbps
OC-3 = 155.52 Mbps
OC-12 = 622.08 Mbps
OC-24 = 1.244 Gbps
OC-48 = 2.488 Gbps
OC-192 = 9.952 Gbps
OC-255 = 13.21 Gbps

eircomtribunal

probe wrote:

Of course ComReg won't know this because they are based in downtown Dublin. Furthermore they can suck as much cash out of the industry as they need in license fees to pay for their OC-3* or whatever sized pipe they have...
...
OC-1 = 51.85 Mbps
OC-3 = 155.52 Mbps
OC-12 = 622.08 Mbps
OC-24 = 1.244 Gbps
OC-48 = 2.488 Gbps
OC-192 = 9.952 Gbps
OC-255 = 13.21 Gbps

ComReg then tendered for a 1-2 Mb/s line. Never heard what and from whom they got the connection in the end.
I think they pay, where necessary, for satellite "broadband" connectivity for their staff to work from home.
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damien

Some of their staff have failed the line test for broadband. Staff in very ironic positions.

whateveryoulike

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Sponge Bob

I will personally organise the "Consultation" on that (but go ahead anyway while I organise the 25 page guff fest)

probe

eircomtribunal wrote:

ComReg then tendered for a 1-2 Mb/s line. Never heard what and from whom they got the connection in the end.
I think they pay, where necessary, for satellite "broadband" connectivity for their staff to work from home.
P.

Amazed to hear of comreg’s own internet connectivity problems.

One would have thought that all government agencies would centrally purchase their internet connectivity to get the best speed and prices…

The smart guys up in Leinster House have a 1 Gbits/sec internet connection via heanet.ie. Which is far faster than most Irish universities enjoy!

As you may know, heanet bulk-buys BB connectivity for educational establishments and others. Why is this not used by all state organisations?


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TimTim

probe wrote:

Amazed to hear of comreg’s own internet connectivity problems.

One would have thought that all government agencies would centrally purchase their internet connectivity to get the best speed and prices…

The smart guys up in Leinster House have a 1 Gbits/sec internet connection via heanet.ie. Which is far faster than most Irish universities enjoy!

As you may know, heanet bulk-buys BB connectivity for educational establishments and others. Why is this not used by all state organisations?


probe

HEAnet == Higher Education Authority net

Plus I'm not sure if they use it for actual internet, maybe just to stream those dail sessions and etc.

probe

TimTim wrote:

HEAnet == Higher Education Authority net

Plus I'm not sure if they use it for actual internet, maybe just to stream those dail sessions and etc.

I think most people are aware that “heanet” is the “higher education authority network”. Do a re-branding job. "govnet" or whatever?

In addition to Leinster House, heanet’s clients include(ed):

Media Lab Europe (rip)
National Cancer Registry
The National Library
The Royal Irish Academy
Sligo General Hospital
The EPA
The Health Research Board

If the EPA why not comreg?

Why do individual government services put themselves in a mom and pop fragmented broadband buyer mode with all the additional administrative costs of tendering etc? Not to mention the security issues of foreign state sponsored suppliers putting in a cheap tender to grab the business, and hoover up intelligence for themselves from internal government communications.

Every bit that enters and leaves comreg.ie will be recorded and analysed (together with related traffic data) because every commercial telecommunications provider would love to be able to open and photocopy comreg’s mail every day (and will do this for their electronic equivalent (ie IP traffic) flowing across their network.

Comreg’s website is not secure. And they provide no secure (https) e-mail service to the public so that they can contact them without the supplier they are probably complaining about reading the e-mail even before comreg get it!

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damien

Do you lot have allergies to the "New Thread" button?