Broadband penetration map of Ireland by county

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Amas has recently published a broadband penetration map of Ireland. While a mediocre (by European standards) 39.9% of households in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown have broadband, this drops to 22.1% in Cork city and Limerick is even worse at 19.3%. Galway city is 31.6%. More rural counties are typically in the 10 to 20% range.

Amas's chart of fastest broadband speeds is very out of date, and seems to be relying on info from the dozy OECD bureaucrats.

Examples: Amas shows Portugal max speed of 8 Mbits/sec - The real figure is 24 Mbits/sec http://adsl.sapo.pt/prodtarif.html
France has 28 Mbits/sec on DSL http://adsl.free.fr/ and 50 Mbits/sec on fibre http://offres.neuf.fr/fibre_optique/home-fibre-optique.html FT's Orange fibre 100 Mbits/sec in Paris
Sweden - a 75 year old woman has 40 Gbps fibre internet access in her home! http://www.thelocal.se/7869/20070712/
27% of Swedes have fibre to the home broadband : http://www.imnewswatch.com/archives/2007/03/27_of_swedish_b.html?visitFrom=2 (364,000 households)
Switzerland - Swisscom Bluewin offers 15 Mbits/sec : http://www.dsl.bluewin.ch/de/
Netherlands - Tele2 offer 10 Mbits/sec : http://www.tele2.nl/shop/Internet/index.htm Some people have fibre to the home.
Iceland - FTTH is available from the electricity company (www.or.is) 100 Mbits/sec - capped at 30 Mbits/sec currently http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_to_the_premises#Iceland
(You will find others FTTH projects on the same page)
Monaco - 15 Mbits/sec DSL - 83% of households in Monaco have broadband the highest in Europe http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0704/
http://www.monaco.mc/offreDescriptif.do?idRubrique=9&idArticle=3
Italy - 255,000 households have fibre to the home.

Of course nothing compares with the super-slow (3 Mbits/sec max) overpriced broadband sold by the eircom monopoly - who managed to increase its DSL market share by 1% from 95 to 96% of the market according to the latest comreg report (fig 3.2.1 of ComReg0767).

http://www.amas.ie/documents/AMAS_state_of_the_net_No6_sep07_web.pdf

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Joanamo

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Monaco - 15 Mbits/sec DSL - 83% of households in Monaco have broadband the highest in Europe

83% of households in Monaco are millionaire expats.


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mike65

Fupp when you see the map you realise just how awful things are - Wexford 10% thats criminal. Is not like its beyond the back of beyond.

Mike.

Sponge Bob

Did ye see this bit

Broadband availability is increasing, but gaps
remain and sometimes not just in rural Ireland.
Despite a Dublin city centre location, and
sharing the same street as the
Department of Communications,
Energy and Natural Resources,
AMAS has been turned down
again for a DSL connection.

Lovely .

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Sponge Bob wrote:

Did ye see this bit

AMAS's office seems to be about 900m from the eircom "exchange".

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Dublin&ie=UTF8&ll=53.334884,-6.247852&spn=0.010904,0.033817&t=h&z=16&om=1

One wonders how many other companies can't get DSL in Ireland's city/town centre locations?

Eircom - what an incompetent shower of rip-off merchants!

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