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IBB job losses

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  • 27-05-2008 10:36pm
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    gingerGiant
    Registered Users Posts: 142 ✭✭


    Heard today that following a review of operations at IBB by their new owners, 60 members of staff were given their notice last Thursday and all other staff have been placed on 2 months protective notice.

    Now, I doubt they will go bust as Imagine would be very unlikly to purchase a sinking ship that could not be repaired and I would expect that they will continue and even make a profit, maybe not straight away but within 2-3 years. I do wonder what this will mean to levels of service, I mean they were acceptable at the moment but with that many staff been laid off surely service will have to suffer.

    I also heard that the new owners stopped the sales team from making sales until the review of operations was complete, although i suspect this is probably so they can change the contract you sign to introduce a cap (their website no longer says there is no cap) and an installation charge like the other wireless providers.

    BTW the above is from a source which has good access to a number of staff members in IBB.

    Anybody know any more about this, have to say I have been expecting something like this from them.


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    #2
    Bros123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 682 ✭✭✭Bros123


    Yes heard the new radio ads and their biggest asset to date,no cap,wasn't mentioned.
    I hope all these staff can get other jobs and as an IBB customer that their service doesn't go to hell.


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    ScouseMouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,070 ✭✭✭ScouseMouse


    I have just been on the website looking at my package - the 3mb breeze. It is still staying no caps.

    I wonder am I going to start having problems now they have been taken over. At the moment, what I have is brilliant.


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    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    gingerGiant wrote: »
    60 members of staff were given their notice last Thursday and all other staff have been placed on 2 months protective notice.

    How many staff have they, 60 seems alot? I'd never even imagine they had 60 staff.


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    penfold944
    Registered Users Posts: 28 ✭penfold944


    Try maybe 5 times that amount.....

    They have a lot of staff....


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    RuggieBear
    Registered Users Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    if they introduce caps i'm outta there


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    watty
    Registered Users Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Actually if they add a cap it will only annoy 5% to 15% of users and greatly improve the service for everyone else.

    If you are one of the 5% to 10% of heavy p2p users that eat 80% of a network, obviously you may be rather unhappy.


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