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Wheres the ****ing broadband Ryan ??

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  • 31-03-2008 11:51pm
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    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭


    Read

    http://www.cso.ie/releasespublications/documents/industry/2007/ictireland2007.pdf

    Page 42 of 67 Table 5c , what ****ing Broadband ???

    There are 1.525m households in Ireland of whom 198,000 use the Internet and have no Broadband because they cannot get it .

    198k out of 1.525m is

    13% of all the households     in Ireland

    Reasons for households not having broadband but having internet connection at Home in 2007

    Not available in my area!

    67.4% in the BMW Region

    40.4% Southern and Eastern Region
    Yes I am SHOUTING because you won't listen otherwise<.cg snip>


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    croo
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    and they continue to include the estimated 45k mobile 3g connections in that "broadband" category too!


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    cgarvey
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    Less of it Sponge.


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    watty
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    I think it's more like 100K now, also Clearwire and Ripwave (nomadic systems using similar technolgy & performance to HSDPA, but even higher (worse) frequencies etc).


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    crawler
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    I think sponge caused Bertie to resign :) Too many actual real facts for him to cope with!!


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    mike65
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    In before lock.

    Mike.


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    Sponge Bob
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    crawler wrote: »
    actual real facts

    Speaking of which !!!

    Care to explain that .sig of yours to us ????


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    oscarBravo
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    Whoah. On the move again, crawler?


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    crawler
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    Sponge Bob wrote: »
    Speaking of which !!!

    Care to explain that .sig of yours to us ????

    Sorry just spotted this now - yes, I hang out there \|/ now....


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    BarryM
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    cgarvey wrote: »
    Less of it Sponge.

    Agreed, we won't get anywhere screaming and shouting..... data, real data, and minimum techie press releases will get the real message across.


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    bealtine
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    crawler wrote: »
    Sorry just spotted this now - yes, I hang out there \|/ now....

    Now that O2 have taken over (well likely to)?


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    jor el
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    BarryM wrote: »
    data, real data, and minimum techie press releases will get the real message across.

    Because that has worked brilliantly up until now? Ryan simply won't listen. Last time I heard him on the radio he was being pulled up on using HSDPA connections in the broadband stats and comparing these to the OECD numbers, and saying how well Ireland was doing. He refused to accept that the OECD numbers don't count HSDPA (not sure if they count Clearwire and co type connections) and refused to change his opinion that Ireland was now a world leader in broadband penetration.

    Absolutely nothing will change on this in the next 4 years, especially now that government money is down. What little they had planned probably won't even happen now.


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    bealtine
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    jor el wrote: »
    refused to change his opinion that Ireland was now a world leader in broadband penetration.

    Absolutely nothing will change on this in the next 4 years, especially now that government money is down. What little they had planned probably won't even happen now.

    That man is demented and shouldn't be left in charge of a solar powered egg
    let alone a Department, hopefully he'll be promoted to somewhere useless like foreign affairs or something where he can't do anymore damage.


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    BarryM
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    bealtine wrote: »
    That man is demented and shouldn't be left in charge of a solar powered egg
    let alone a Department, hopefully he'll be promoted to somewhere useless like foreign affairs or something where he can't do anymore damage.

    Agreed, of course, BUT, he can compare all sorts of crap data to prove his point(s) as long as that is all there is around..... The recent CSO stuff shows that the anecdotal data we have from posts on Boards.ie for example, are borne out by actual experience. So, we must collect some real data, put it in the hands of the right journos and confront Ryan/ComReg et al with it.

    I think that most of the meja knows the data is not right but the subject is too techie for their audiences, or at least the information they are getting is too techie.

    Bye, Barry


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