Damien on Prime Time again?

oscarBravo

With Rex Combs, Matt Cooper and Dermot Jewell. Missed most of it, will have to catch it on the website later.

damien

It was really like a game of where's wally? I was seen for about 30 seconds. Still, someone gave them good notes as they took a few swipes at ComReg as well as eircom.

jwt

Damien (Mr Offline) Mulley from The Offline Company Inc

:rolleyes:


John

Mountjoy Mugger

Comreg a no-show again. Quelle suprise.

Sully

I never watched Prime Time before, but I found the discussion pathetic. It was short and only a few points were raised and not properly discussed.

Rex just kept saying they are working on it.

Damien barley got a word in.

That ICA guy spoke very little.

Matt Coper the Today FM DJ was the only one who spoke the most sense, to the point and brought up great issues.

Very disapointed. Having the CEO of Eircom there, and nothing much said.

damien

Despite me making noise in the Cork studio, I was not let back into the debate. Jewell as usual talked the crap that ComReg feeds him but then they pay the CAI to attend presentations where they show them slides that says everything is fine. Combs deflected everything and was left to do so as well but eircom did look quite bad. This is the 5th month that Combs has used the "new kid in town, leave me alone" excuse. How long can he milk it?

skywalker

jwt wrote:

Damien (Mr Offline) Mulley from The Offline Company Inc

:rolleyes:


John

That got a smile from me. You did well to ignore that one Damien, seeing as you got so little time.

Matt Cooper was doing a lot less sitting on the fence than he does on his radio show. Also felt Rex Combs explained the position on the exchanges fairly clearly, and Dermot Jewell kept harping on about it unnecessarily, eircom aren't a state run organisation any more, if its not economically viable to upgrade an exchange, its naive to assume they'll to it "in the national interest".

damien

State run or not, eircom have Significant Market Power and so have a Universal Service Obligation and as such have obligations they must meet, the problem is they are not meeting them. Doesn't matter if they are state owned or not. They need to be made accountable and of course the enforcer of them (ComReg) was nowhere to be seen last night.

damien

Sully04 wrote:

Rex just kept saying they are working on it.... Having the CEO of Eircom there, and nothing much said.

http://www.achgohairithe.com/?p=196

RangeR

http://www.rte.ie/news/primetime/

Top middle, 3 links. The below links won't work but just for reference so you know where to look on the link above.

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[*][URL="javascript:showPlayer('/news/2007/0130/primetime_av.html?2214495,null,230')"][IMG]http://www.rte.ie/news/images/video_icon_black.gif[/IMG]Eithne O'Brien looks at problems suffered by Eircom customers
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[*][URL="javascript:showPlayer('/news/2007/0130/primetime_av.html?2214496,null,230')"][IMG]http://www.rte.ie/news/images/video_icon_black.gif[/IMG]John Madden talks about the difficulties he faced trying to acquire a phone line for his house
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[*][URL="javascript:showPlayer('/news/2007/0130/primetime_av.html?2214497,null,230')"][IMG]http://www.rte.ie/news/images/video_icon_black.gif[/IMG]Dermott Jewell, Consumers' Association of Ireland, Rex Combs, Eircom, Matt Cooper, Today FM, and Damien Mulley, Ireland Off-line, discuss the service provided by Eircom
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Altreab

damien.m wrote:

Combs deflected everything and was left to do so as well but eircom did look quite bad. This is the 5th month that Combs has used the "new kid in town, leave me alone" excuse. How long can he milk it?

He kept saying im the "new guy dont blame me" and that the consumer was his main priority and how they were going to spend $1 Billion (yes DOLLARS) on the next generation network over the next 3 years. Why quote dollars in a eurozone country?
He also forgot to mention that €450 Million (US$565 Million) was paid to shareholders within weeks of him arriving. Of course that was never mentioned!!!

thebman

I thought the fact that Comreg didn't even care enough to show up said a lot about our regulator and I hope people picked up on that.

bealtine

brim4brim wrote:

I thought the fact that Comreg didn't even care enough to show up said a lot about our regulator and I hope people picked up on that.

Comreg care so much about Irish consumers that they couldn't even be bothered to show up to a program called "Eithne O'Brien looks at problems suffered by Eircom customers".

Abolish them, useless shower of parasites.

Blaster99

I didn't see this programme, but it has occurred to me for a while that the format of bringing eircom into these debates is essentially pointless. Unless we want to yet again hear about people texting in who can't get broadband, complain about this and that aspect of eircom's service, followed by some promises from eircom to close the whole thing off nicely. Even if ComReg is in these debates, they can just sit back and let eircom do the talking and they don't have to take ownership of the problem in any shape or form because people's perception is that eircom is to blame for it all. The format should really be ComReg in one corner and Damien in the other.