IrelandOffline Reforms

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[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE]

Broadband lobby group, IrelandOffline, reforms

Following intensive internal discussion, a number of former members of the broadband lobby group, IrelandOffline, have opted to reform.

Interim spokesperson Eamonn Wallace explained that the group were bewildered at recent National Broadband Scheme developments, including the recent news of the national contract being awarded to a 3G mobile company with a history of poor technology and customer service. Wallace cited the lack of meaningful development in broadband availability since IrelandOffline disbanded last year. Furthermore we believe there is a looming crisis in the provision of broadband in this country and we also aim to address this issue, complacency is not an option.

"Drawing on the experience of previous committee members and chairmen, IrelandOffline aims to be a neutral body campaigning for the provision of timely and accurate information in the field of telecommunications", explained Wallace.

IrelandOffline wishes to build on the successful, hard work of previous committees and members, and hopes to have formal elections in the New Year.

ENDS

ABOUT IRELANDOFFLINE

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Campaigning For Affordable, Unmetered And Broadband Internet Access In Ireland.
IrelandOffline is a voluntary organisation consisting of home and business
Internet users. Its brief is to campaign for the development of high-speed Internet access services and to promote innovation and competition in the Irish Internet marketplace.

For more information on the organisation, please visit the
IrelandOffline website at http://www.irelandoffline.org
email: info@irelandoffline.org

Phone: +353 (0)86 2506350 (Eamonn Wallace)

barnicles

Brilliant news

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jimmycrackcorm

It might be good if someone could come up with an answer to the problem of delivering broadband cost-effectively outside urban areas.

PogMoThoin

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

It might be good if someone could come up with an answer to the problem of delivering broadband cost-effectively outside urban areas.

Well the best the man in charge Eamon Ryan came up with was 3....................need I say more

ArseBurger

Good that there'll be a lobby on this again.

However, are key members going to be made up of folk that have actually worked in the industry this time? That'd be nice...

watty

Well sometimes that can be held against people too.

Comreg has some ex-eircom people...

ArseBurger

Well - considering Comreg are effectively an Eircom subsidiary...

christophicus

lol, nice one.

Do Comreg still hold the position that they have no grounds to do anything about BB in this country ?

PogMoThoin

christophicus wrote: »

lol, nice one.

Do Comreg still hold the position that they have no grounds to do anything about BB in this country ?

But they don't, they don't regulate broadband, they regulate narrowband (ie dial up) only. This country needs a proper regulator, one that actually regulates and has power.

vibe666

PogMoThoin wrote: »

But they don't, they don't regulate broadband, they regulate narrowband (ie dial up) only. This country needs a proper regulator, one that actually regulates and has power.

comreg would be better classed as a resistor than a regulator.

ArseBurger

PogMoThoin wrote: »

But they don't, they don't regulate broadband, they regulate narrowband (ie dial up) only. This country needs a proper regulator, one that actually regulates and has power.

But they do regulate things like point to point microwave licensing. Which has been geared in a way that makes it a cost effective method of backhaul for the large Telcos only.

Paying the license fees for the small guy will buckle them. And, in Ireland at least, the unregulated bands are extremely dirty and effectively useless.