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Consumer Association calls for BB overhaul

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  • 23-09-2006 3:31pm
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    cgarvey
    Registered Users Posts: 3,886 ✭✭✭


    The Consumer Association has finally opened its mouth on the BB fiasco. However, it probably shouldn't have!

    http://url.ie/241
    It has called on the Government to deregulate the market and put an end to the eircom monopoly on telephone, satellite and wireless connections.

    Unless, of course, they mean the national FWA license.. but it doesn't sound like they'd know what that was. Shouldn't IrelandOffline be working with the CA? Have/should we sent an official offer of field knowledge share, and joined thinking? Press relesaes like that only damage the work done by IO, IMO.


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    eircomtribunal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭eircomtribunal


    cgarvey wrote:
    Shouldn't IrelandOffline be working with the CA? Have/should we sent an official offer of field knowledge share, and joined thinking? Press relesaes like that only damage the work done by IO, IMO.
    They should. And I wish them more luck than I had with alerting them and asking for assistance to some obvious and serious consumer related issues, like ComReg's/Eircom's Directory Enquiry thingy and the mobile companies' Meteor and O2 undertakings of stealing our kids' pocket money by selling their ring-tones in breach of the Consumer Information Act. (Meteor was successfully forced by the ODCA to put an end to this since; O2 is still at it. Shame on Danuta.)
    P.


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    damien
    Registered Users Posts: 4,290 ✭✭✭damien


    The CA take money from ComReg three times a year and yet ignore the fact that one of the main problems with broadband provision is ComReg themselves. Funny that.


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    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    The CA of all people should be aware of the ongoing failure of Comreg to represent the interests of the end users of telecoms products sold by licencees , contrary to the communications act 2002.

    One of the CA is on the famous Comreg Consumer Panel and has been for years.


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