When was bb introduced?

dub45

In what year did Eircom introduce bb?

bigpaddy2004

dub45 wrote: »

In what year did Eircom introduce bb?

They began trials with it in Dublin in 1997/8 amongst Eircom engineers if thats what you would like to call "the beginning"?

dub45

Sorry I meant for the householder.

godskitchen

dub45 wrote: »

Sorry I meant for the householder.

Some time around 2014 with a bit of luck............

It was called Eircom i-stream wasn't it?

watty

2.048Mbps Primary ISDN was the "original" broadband, as per ITU defintion. Only large companies and Universities could afford it. If you were very rich you could have that for data rather than 31 "phone lines" on a PABX in mid 1980s.

DSL made Broadband affordable to small business and home user. The first public deployments in Ireland was Eircom Dublin & Cork and Esat in Raheen, Limerick. Can't remember exact year, around 2002 anyway, before that was trials.

Much later than other Countries Compare 2000 in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and Orange County, Calif. http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/332981

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As DSL has only recently been rolled out in
the Irish arena the service is not currently
available to everyone and it will be many
months before the rollout is complete.The
first areas to be rolled out are parts of
Dublin where Eircom is offering this service.
Eircom will also offer ADSL services
throughout Ireland in the coming months.
Following on from Dublin will be Cork,
Limerick,Northwest,Galway and Kerry.

EsatBT also launched a DSL service in
Limerick in April with the Roches Street
exchange being the first to offer DSL.

EsatBT will continue to rollout this service on an
exchange by exchange basis throughout
the country over the coming months and by
December 2002 plans to have unbundled
40 exchanges which can potentially serve
400,000 lines.
In summary DSL has arrived on Irish
shores.

from http://www.commsonline.ie/pdfs/8-9.pdf

The company I was working in got DSL in 2002, outside Limerick City. I could not get Broadband at home till November 2005, and then it was Wireless (Digiweb Metro).

Many eircom exchanges had "trigger levels" that exceeded the number of customers unlike the real trigger scheme in UK

lucernarian

Cablelink were offering broadband in the late 1990s. I think cable broadband was available in Malahide (but I'm not sure if Cablelink, Chorus or CMI were responsible for that network). I've seen some threads mentioning these services before the purchase by NTL stopped it dead in its tracks for years. I know 1999 definitely had cable broadband.

Casey cablevision have been offering broadband for a decade or so now I think. Sorry, I've no dates on that.

Bummer1234

dub45 wrote: »

In what year did Eircom introduce bb?

In what year will Eircom introduce decent bb?

ShevY

I think it was around march or april 2004 for a lot of people with eircom. And I have to say whatever about the price, the service was perfect, always full speed at any time until late last year WHEN IT TURNED TO UTTER ****E! :mad:

measurement

I know this will make me seem like a complete accountant (I'm not one) but I've just found a scanned copy of my changeover of the PSTN account to DSL, dated 5th August 2003. (Dublin).
Its been working fine ever since, but I now use the OpenDNS settings described elsewhere to avoid server problems in Eircom, :rolleyes: and with one brief exception recently, I have gone for the cheapest option available. I'm watching to see when the promised 8MB will arrive (supposed to be ready for this area - Terenure - but yet to materialise).:mad:

lucernarian

To actually answer dub45's question, I believe it was in 2002 in 40 exchanges in Dublin. At the princely sum of €108 per month.

This document mentions that it was May 2002. Forfas are a reliable and reasonably unbiased source from my experience.
www.forfas.ie/media/forfas040129_broadband_benchmarking.pdf

Also: www.encom.ie/client_images/FAQs_on_ADSL.pdf

It mentions that i-stream launched in May 2002 with a price of €89 ex vat for residential customers.

Another document I found (but I misplaced the link) said that there were 3,400 eircom DSL customers by the end of March 2003 so that would point to sometime in 2002 being the launch date.