Another Week Another Survey . Ireland (naturally) sh1te

Sponge Bob

Here is an interesting one.

In Europe

1. Ireland has well BELOW AVERAGE BB penetration

2. But Ireland has ABOVE AVERAGE Internet penetration according to this survey from Comscore

therefore we must be using dialup instead ....or some secret access technology we never told nobody about , eh!

The number of page impressions seems to bear this out and to confirm that despite having ABOVE AVERAGE internet penetration we sort of do less with it when online.

The number of page impressions per internet user in Ireland is 66% of the european average .

The number of days in the month when we use the Internet is , however , 75% of the european average

There are 5 possible explanations for this

1. Because we are forced to use dialup these pages come in slower.

2. We are very slow readers , we only read at 66% the speed of the average european .

3. We watch pr0n and do not actually read 'pages' so there is nothing to impress.

4. We actually spend our time playing poker and not reading .

5. We read longer pages than the average european when we do read a page and this explains why it takes us 50% longer .......but the number of words read is the same as the rest of europe and in only 75% of the time it takes a normal european to read them .

Personally I feel that for a country with NO DEMAND we have done fabulously well to exceeed average European Internet Penetration .

Can we have an explanation from dempsey and comreg please ?????

Avns1s

Sponge Bob wrote:

Can we have an explanation from dempsey and comreg please ?????

Thankfully, Dempsey won't be explaining anything in this area from now on. Hopefully his successor won't be at the same level of muppetry as he was.

Sponge Bob

Nothing that FF were likely to appoint to the job could match Dempsey for hard core muppetry except probably Cullen

Every other possible candidate for the job displays signs of sentience !

The department could be reconfigured in the coming months leaving Eamonn Ryan with Energy and Natural Resources but not comms.

How does Transport and Communications sound to ye ????

PixelTrawler

Sponge Bob wrote:

Nothing that FF were likely to appoint to the job could match Dempsey for hard core muppetry except probably Cullen

Not Dick Roche then:eek:

Sponge Bob

Dick reads and answers his own emails . dempsey never even got to stage one

watty

Sweden $10.79
Denmark $11.11
Switzerland $12.53
US $15.93
France $16.36
Netherlands $16.85
New Zealand $16.86
Italy $17.63
Ireland $18.18
Finland $19.49
*Source: OECD. Figures for October 2006


$18.18 for Ireland? Not including Line Rental on DSL.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6900697.stm

I wonder to the others include Line Rental. Do we think this was RipWave?

Liam Byrne

That table is from the list of "cheapest entry level broadband".......hardly comparing like-with-like when you see the figures from other countries.

And if it was RipWave "broadband", then I doubt that any other country considers sub-512K as "broadband".

Even if it was eircom or one of their resellers, other countries would laugh at the 1Meg/48:1.....

Sponge Bob

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6900697.stm

also note the following

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report says 60% of its member countries net users are now on broadband.

Its about 25-30% here. Less than half the level of a developed country .

I suppose that the knowledge economy in Ireland relies on pigeons , txts and dialup .

watty

Don't underestimate a pair of micro SD cards tied to pigeons legs. The Mb/s between Dublin & Limerick can easily beat broadband, though latency is very high.

Unless you deploy a backup sytem like "Stromkreis mit zweiTauben", the packet loss can be 100% in presence of raptors.

BendiBus

When comparing the Irish figures with the foreign figures, is it not possible that the foreigners figures are bollox too? Therefore, in relative terms, the results are correct?

thebman

BendiBus wrote:

When comparing the Irish figures with the foreign figures, is it not possible that the foreigners figures are bollox too? Therefore, in relative terms, the results are correct?

No, how would that be the case?

We know the score in other European countries and although they have their problems, they are nowhere near as bad as us. This paints a very rosy picture of Irish Broadband.

Given we pay the second highest line rental in the world and that does not appear to have been factored in to the cost of broadband then how would the results be correct in relative terms.

We are one of the most expensive and getting one of the worst services, its that simple. Why do people want to ignore this fact, it won't make it go away.