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[UPC]UPC Slovakia launches 120mbps fibrepower for €40 per month

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  • #32
    vibe666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    weisses wrote: »
    120 mbps in Ireland ?(maybe for a small group of people in Dublin) I seriously hope I'm wrong
    yup, you are. :)

    http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/12855/business/upc-is-building-a-120mbps-next-gen-broadband-network.

    UPC broadband is available in over 500,000 homes in Ireland at this stage, they're a big player in the broadband market these days and are going to cause eircom some serious headaches come this time next year.


  • #33
    dogpile
    Registered Users Posts: 629 ✭✭✭dogpile


    vibe666 wrote: »
    yup, you are. :)

    http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/12855/business/upc-is-building-a-120mbps-next-gen-broadband-network.

    UPC broadband is available in over 500,000 homes in Ireland at this stage, they're a big player in the broadband market these days and are going to cause eircom some serious headaches come this time next year.

    "Dunn concluded: “UPC’s philosophy is simple – this amazing but often complex digital world should be for everyone. We’re not the finished article, but we promise there’s more to come"

    It's not tho is it, a major European city like Dublin and still not available to all who want it


  • #34
    Talisman
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    Presumably the 120Mb product would first be offered to businesses at a premium price.


  • #35
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,087 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Talisman wrote: »
    Presumably the 120Mb product would first be offered to businesses at a premium price.
    That doesn't seem to be how UPC have introduced it in the past.


  • #36
    vibe666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    Talisman wrote: »
    Presumably the 120Mb product would first be offered to businesses at a premium price.
    nope, based on what they have already rolled out under the "upc fibre power" banner, anyone who can get UPC broadband will be able to upgrade.

    check out their already existing fibre power enabled countries here:

    http://www.upc.nl/internet/
    http://www.upc.sk/internet/zakladne_informacie
    http://www.upc.cz/internet/
    http://www.upc.hu/kabel-internet

    available to anyone who wants it (who is in a cable broadband enabled area).

    as for not offering broadband to every house in ireland, or even in dublin, who exactly does?

    there's plenty of people posting on here living in dublin who can't even get DSL off eircom for one reason or another and they bought a fully functioning (more or less) telecoms company off the irish government with cable already laid to most of the houses in the country and they still can't offer their own broadband to absolutely everybody who wants it. :eek:

    upc have ploughed millions of euro's into delivering their services to as many homes as possible, but like the man says, they're still not done yet, but you have to give them some credit for the amount of effort they're putting in. their broadband customer base has grown a huge amount in the last couple of years and is still growing now, which is probably more than you can say for eircom just recently, i'd be surprised if they have any broadband customers left by next month the way they've been going recently.


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