eircom tv service

manutd83

Theres a page put in the sun newspaper 2day that the eircom ceo is giving an update on the examinership situation,anyway he mentions in it that eircom will be starting a tv service in the near future,anybody know anymore about this,is it in conjunction with another company,didnt realise eircom had the will or way to do this in there current state of affairs

godtabh

Fibre to home tv service like UPC. Testing the fibre to home BB in D18 now

manutd83

when will this be,what can be expected

eircom: Tony

manutd83 wrote: »

Theres a page put in the sun newspaper 2day that the eircom ceo is giving an update on the examinership situation,anyway he mentions in it that eircom will be starting a tv service in the near future,anybody know anymore about this,is it in conjunction with another company,didnt realise eircom had the will or way to do this in there current state of affairs

Hi manutd83
eircom intends to launch a range of entertainment services over fibre including television via a customer’s broadband connection (IPTV), video on demand, catch up TV and social media via TV. This is scheduled for this year. I do not have more information at this time. Eircom is profitable on a day to day basis and in the past two years have made significant advances in the way we operate. Fibre and IPtv are a part of our plans for future services and we hope to be able to post more on this soon.
Tony

neiphin

eircom: Tony wrote: »

Hi manutd83
eircom intends to launch a range of entertainment services over fibre including television via a customer’s broadband connection (IPTV), video on demand, catch up TV and social media via TV. This is scheduled for this year. I do not have more information at this time. Eircom is profitable on a day to day basis and in the past two years have made significant advances in the way we operate. Fibre and IPtv are a part of our plans for future services and we hope to be able to post more on this soon.
Tony

but not enough profit to make your repayments
who will lend to eircon to finance fibre roll out ?
will it onlyy be in the areas allready covered by upc ?

Sponge Bob

Eircom is pretty profitable from day to day. The problem is having enough profit to

1. pay the stupendous debt from the Tony O Reilly and George Soros days plus the Australian bankers topup as well as
2. Invest in the network.

If 2. is not addressed as a matter of extreme urgency then the company will be back in examinership again by 2016 latest and likely by 2015. Lack of investment has led to people abandoning eircom in droves...why pay €50 a month for dialup or 1mbit DSL when a crap mobile service will give you a better experience for €20 a month.

eircom does not need loans to invest, it generates all the cash it requires by itself.

Sadly there are no plans to invest in rural and small town areas, only in larger towns with a minimum population of 5000 persons and in cities....because that is where UPC are. These are eircoms investment targets. Meanwhile the people of Kilrickle and St Johnston and many other rural communities still don't have the basic ADSL that eircom promised them 5 years ago this week.

According to the last census there there are just over 1m households in towns, the rest....around 600.000 households....are rural or village dwellers.

Aggregate Town Area
All years
State 1,050,073 out of total 1,649,408 Households in the state.
Leinster 694,577
Carlow 10,011
Dublin City 207,847
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown 75,208
Fingal 86,723
South Dublin 88,339
Kildare 48,632
Kilkenny 13,250
Laois 13,736
Longford 4,927
Louth 29,454
Meath 35,562
Offaly 12,224
Westmeath 15,574
Wexford 21,580
Wicklow 31,510
Munster 249,153
Clare 17,599
Cork City 47,110
Cork County 73,447
Kerry 19,148
Limerick City 22,300
Limerick County 16,377
North Tipperary 11,170
South Tipperary 14,768
Waterford City 18,199
Waterford County 9,035
Connacht 74,293
Galway City 27,697
Galway County 14,827
Leitrim 1,315
Mayo 14,435
Roscommon 6,459
Sligo 9,560
Ulster (part of) 32,050
Cavan 8,182
Donegal 16,925
Monaghan 6,943

manutd83

i hope if eircom do put out a tv service that they get there head out of the clouds with their pricing,because if they dont they wont be getting many people signing up

eircom: Ant

manutd83 wrote: »

i hope if eircom do put out a tv service that they get there head out of the clouds with their pricing,because if they dont they wont be getting many people signing up

Hi manutd83,

Appreciated, and thanks for posting on the Boards Forum.

I would be optimistic and confident that eircom's pricing will be competitive and that IPTV & other services will offer tremendous benefit to customers. This is on top of all the existing value added services : eircom SportsHub, StudyHub, WiFiHub & MusicHub.

Watch this space -

Regards,
Ant....Lufc92

whitleydonal

eircom is not allowed to compete take the shackles off and see prices really fall. Phone and broadband prices in the uk are a fraction of what they cost here for instance any time calls national and 25 meg broadband 16 pounds per month. UPC and eircom have become a duopoly lets have some real competition

Sponge Bob

whitleydonal wrote: »

eircom is not allowed to compete take the shackles off and see prices really fall.

eircom CHOSE to charge the highest line rental in the WORLD for the last 10 years and lost lots of customers to crappy mobile 'broadband' services who do not charge line rental..

YOU tell me what is 'competitive' about that willya!

whitleydonal

Sponge Bob wrote: »

eircom CHOSE to charge the highest line rental in the WORLD for the last 10 years and lost lots of customers to crappy mobile 'broadband' services who do not charge line rental..

YOU tell me what is 'competitive' about that willya!

eircom is obliged to give upc access to its network for 1 cent per line remember there is only one network. eircom is not permitted to lower its prices and if it does it must offer the competition the same product at lower price. The only point I am making is that now that the network is open its time to allow competition. the esb was allowed to compete when it opened its network if you could call it competition. Just allow BT to run the irish network that would work