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UPC and Eircom's Fibre roll-out?

  • 01-02-2013 6:21pm
    #1
    Stinicker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,102 ✭✭✭


    OK so Eircom are rolling out fibre to the cabinet and from what I had read this is happening in mainly urban areas?

    Will Eircom be effectively building their Fibre network in areas already served by UPC? If so this represents a massive waste of money as it is duplicating a service.

    As Eircom's new FTTX service will be open to competition then so accordingly should UPC be opened to competition. Are they even already?

    Money spent on Fibre is always good but there should be a single network serving areas and not waste money running new fibre to compete with old fibre when Eircom should be allowed to compete on UPC's service like Vodafone and Sky already do with their DSL service. Spending money duplicating a service is a waste when large chunks of the country haven't even got basic DSL already.


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  • #2
    boardzz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 861 ✭✭✭boardzz


    They will not spend huge amounts of money in low populated areas because they won't make money. They want to get back customers they lost to UPC.


  • #3
    bealtine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,051 ✭✭✭bealtine


    Stinicker wrote: »
    . Spending money duplicating a service is a waste when large chunks of the country haven't even got basic DSL already.

    eircom wanted to only compete in urban areas and ignore the country exchanges, country people don't need broadband!


  • #4
    aramush
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    How much roughly is the price of upgrading a rural exchange to fibre?


  • #5
    Sponge Bob
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    aramush wrote: »
    How much roughly is the price of upgrading a rural exchange to fibre?

    Depends on distance from existing fibre. It is much cheaper than it was since the deployment of overhead fibre slung pole to pole in the last 5 years or so.

    Howver many rural exchanges use crummy ancient wireless backhaul, even ones with ADSL services.


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