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Eircom to seek Financial assistance for USO requirement

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  • 02-02-2007 8:38pm
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    machalla
    Registered Users Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭


    This may already have been discussed at some point.. but as has been pointed out before on here what do I know, eh?

    http://www.rte.ie/aertel/109-01.html


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    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    Its now on page 111 BTW.
    http://www.rte.ie/aertel/111-01.html


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    smellslikeshoes
    Registered Users Posts: 3,354 ✭✭✭smellslikeshoes


    If we didn't have a poodle for a regulator they would give it to them under the condition that
    512k down/128k up minimum broadband was put into the USO.


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    bennyx_o
    Registered Users Posts: 4,105 ✭✭✭bennyx_o


    Could they give conditions, like if we give you €x you must provide such and such a service?


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    Liam Byrne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,163 ✭✭✭✭Liam Byrne


    Why give it to eircom ? Why not give it to a neutral third party who won't have a vested interest in obstructing those that want to use its service ?

    Mind you, even if terms and conditions are written in, what's the chances of the Government actually applying them (think contract for eVoting machines - paid for, even though they don't work, etc, etc)


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    OfflerCrocGod
    Registered Users Posts: 6,316 ✭✭✭OfflerCrocGod


    Liam Byrne wrote:
    Why give it to eircom ? Why not give it to a neutral third party who won't have a vested interest in obstructing those that want to use its service ?
    Eircom own the physical infrastructure.


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    niallb
    Registered Users Posts: 2,735 ✭✭✭niallb


    OfflerCrocGod wrote:
    Eircom own the physical infrastructure.
    That's a neat way to describe the outcome of this government's management of a network that should still be state owned.


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    tba
    Registered Users Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭tba


    Cheeky *****!

    Comreg should buy out there ****ing infrastucture and that will learn them....


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    Urban Weigl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Urban Weigl


    niallb wrote:
    That's a neat way to describe the outcome of this government's management of a network that should still be state owned.

    I see you think a lot like Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, and I don't really mean that in a negative way. That being said, do you actually think our government would manage the infrastructure properly and/or do a better job than Eircom? The best solution, in my mind, would be to fix the USO. I don't think a government owned and run network would solve any problems. Look at the roads...


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