list of boadband and midband providers in the state

bealtine · 04-03-2010 3:14pm #1

I am trying to compile a list of all bb providers in the state, please add in replies:

fixed DSL/cable
eircom
Vodafone
Perlico
Imagine
Digiweb
UPC
Magnet
BT broadband
Smart
UTV

wireless
Imagine
Westnet
Munster broadband
Leinster broadband
ICE Broadband
Clearwire
Airwire
Ripple Communications
Digiweb

midband
vodafone
o2
Meteor
3

Satellite
Tooway

cgarvey · 04-03-2010 3:42pm

Wireless
+ Airwire - http://www.airwire.ie/
+ Ripple Communications (formerly Ammocom) - http://www.ripplecom.net/
+ Digiweb (belong in here as well as fixed, for their Metro offering)

anneboleyn · 04-03-2010 3:45pm

Don't forget Satellite
Tooway Broadband can be purchased via Digiweb

watty · 04-03-2010 4:40pm

Nomadic (no outdoor fixed aerial) Wireless should be in Midband. It's 16 times worst in spectrum/area/speed efficency ratios compared to Point to Multipoint Outdoor Fixed Wireless. So I would put Imagine in all three sections and Move Clearwire to Midband.

Of course Comreg should have list of all the Fixed and Mobile Wireless.

Homevision DSL

Crossan Cable in Longford
Cablesurf Broadband in Dungarvin

Permanet Wireless

Perlico, IOL & BT retail Broadband is Vodafone DSL now.

Smart is Digiweb's

Digiweb also have (or did have) 12 or 13 Mobile "near Broadband" bases. Finglas and 1 in Dublin Centre. 1/4 of 3G/HSPA spectrum but typically twice as good. Flash-OFDM system.

There is a Mobile WiMax at Maynooth College.

Is Tesco reselling any Data yet or only voice + SMS?

Satellite you have the actual Irish Reseller and the Actual Bird/Service provided. So different you need to list both for each local reseller.

Also of interest: is what VOIP, email servers/service, hosting, VLANS and VPNs the ISP can provide. Also if users have static IP, dynamic IP or Shared IP (3, O2, Permanet etc...). If lots of ports or services are blocked or shaped (Clearwire).

Differentiate between 3rd party VOIP provision like Blueface and Skype and NextGen Voice Network VOIP that does'nt go over the Internet (Digiweb, UPC, Magnet).

Differentiate between DSL, Cable and Fibre. There is no real point in differentiating LLU and Bitstream IMO.

clohamon · 04-03-2010 6:23pm

arden broadband cavan
http://www.ardenbrisknet.ie/

Marlow · 04-03-2010 8:50pm

A good start on providers is the list of members at INEX:

https://www.inex.ie/about/memberlist

ExWest (http://www.exwest.net) and CNIX: (http://www.cnix.ie/members.html)

But just a bunch of providers of the top of my head, you don't have in there:

- Cable/DSL
Casey Cablesurf - http://www.cablesurf.com/
Crossan - http://www.crossan.ie/
Strencom - http://www.strencom.net/

- Wireless
East Cork Broadband - http://www.eastcork.net/
Reach Broadband - http://www.reachbroadband.com/
Premier BB - http://www.premierbb.ie/
Net1 - http://www.net1.ie/
Aptus - http://www.aptus.ie/
Fast Wireless Internet - http://www.fwi.ie/
BBNet - http://www.bbnet.ie/
Fastcom - http://www.fastcom.ie/
Nova Networks - http://www.novanetworks.ie/
Rapid Broadband - http://www.rapidbroadband.ie/

And there's another two or three down in Cork, which I just can't recall the name of.

Just to mention a "few"

/M

lucernarian · 04-03-2010 9:33pm

Imagine still provide their FWA service that was formerly known as IBB's breeze service, right? Once they fixed that a couple of years ago, I've heard nothing but positive comments for it. I'm sure it still counts as broadband

http://www.imagine.ie/imagine-at-home/Broadband/Wireless-Broadband