Major Irish Times Coverage of BB failures.

mike65

Pretty good summary of the the collective failure so far.

and a special report featuring lots of Damian which I can't find online.

Mike.

damien

And again a picture of TJ McIntyre instead of me. Still, he'll attract the ComReg snipers, not me.

The Oireachtas Report is coming out at 4 and judging from the leaks in the past few days/weeks, it will slam the MANs and GBSs. I'm worried it will give the GBS projects a bad name and say they took too long when in reality Dempsey froze the whole thing in April 2005. Group Broadband Schemes worked, if for nothing more than it has made eircom go into every area where a GBS was.

Blaster99

If I'm not mistaken, these reports have said the same thing for years. Very little has changed. Are these reports of any use?

damien

This "new" report suggests a nationwide broadband tender. Dempsey has already announced this. This "new" report says the GBS is a failure, Dempsey has said the same but as usual blamed the consumers. If only I could discern a pattern...

damien

Press release:

http://www.oireachtas.ie/viewdoc.asp?DocID=7595&&CatID=36

54 page report:

http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/committees29thdail/committeereports2007/Broadband.pdf

1huge1

Blaster99 wrote:

If I'm not mistaken, these reports have said the same thing for years. Very little has changed. Are these reports of any use?

the main difference is that theres an election coming up
a time when things get done

Blaster99

A time when promises are made, you mean. This stuff isn't going to feature as an issue in the election in any event.