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    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    watty wrote: »
    I think 4Mbps is optimistic...

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/14/kip_meek_report/

    Also noted in that article
    Mr. Meek would like to see a pair of 10MHz bands in 800MHz sold off with a Universal Service requirement, forcing the owner to deploy a nationwide network with a required minimum speed. This would obviously reduce the value of that band, but could meet the government's 2Mb/sec-for-all aspirations.

    That would not happen in dear old ireland, the Dept of Finance does not give a sh1te about the 30% of the country that would benefit from a USO. Comreg will simply sound off on consultations and then do what finance tells them anyway.


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    bealtine
    Registered Users Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭bealtine


    Sponge Bob wrote: »
    Also noted in that article



    That would not happen in dear old ireland, the Dept of Finance does not give a sh1te about the 30% of the country that would benefit from a USO. Comreg will simply sound off on consultations and then do what finance tells them anyway.


    The labyrinthine Irish consultation procedure seems to be designed to annoy people, in the hope that they will just go away and Comreg can get on with their stupid ideological process and utterly ignore all "consultations".


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    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,804 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    ComReg ignore consultations? Unpossible!


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    watty
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    In case anyone has any strange idea that Ofcom is a better model than Comreg.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/15/eu_satellite/

    Ofcom are "differently" broken. IMO over spectrum management, charges, Digital Dividend, Mobile Roaming Charges, Sky Encryption charges etc, they side with the incumbents and Treasury and not the consumer or better interests of UK or Europe as a whole.
    Based on previous performance Ofcom is marginally more likely to upset the EU Commission than existing broadcasters, but it will likely try to find a third way that can upset everyone involved equally.

    I wonder have Comreg noticed this one yet.


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


    Throwing 900Mhz to the Wolves.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/28/eu_refarming/

    It makes no sense simply leaving this to the "Market" and individual regulators.

    4G would need the entire 900MHz with one Operator, or there is no point to it (too much wasted capacity).

    3G will give poorer and less reliable voice coverage on 900MHz than GSM. W-CDMA is simply inferior. It has the illusion of high speed due to 5MHz +5MHz channels rather than 200kHz + 200kHz of GSM mixed FDMA/TDMA.


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