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Boadband for rural area

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  • 19-04-2015 12:55am
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    Cass
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    Is there any plans for Eircom to bring broadband to rural areas.

    I live in a fairly remote area outside of a small town. By outside i mean 12 miles outside going partially up a mountain. There a few houses in the surrounding area and a tiny village 2 miles away. Possibly no more than 3 per mile for a bit then 1 every 2-3 miles.

    None of the houses, and not even this tiny village (2 pubs and five houses), has broadband from cable/ADSL. It's all dongle this and wirelss that. Signal strength with the latest gear, and at the lowest usage (usually 2am) is 700 kb/s. During peak hours it's between 24kb/s to a high of 90kb/s (between 10am - 9pm)

    12 miles up the road is the town, and they have their options of high speed broadband providers with speeds of up to 24mb/s. Will it ever be rolled out to areas such as the one i live in? I've been asking Eircom (we get reps around from time to time) and i'm told in 12 months, another 18 months, another 12 months, etc. For over 8 years i'm getting this, but it never appears. Instead the towns with high speed get faster speeds, 4g, etc. 

    I understand there is a cost to running these lines, but will i ever see decent broadband in the near future?

    Thanks.
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    eircom: Alan
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    Cass wrote: »
    Is there any plans for Eircom to bring broadband to rural areas.

    I live in a fairly remote area outside of a small town. By outside i mean 12 miles outside going partially up a mountain. There a few houses in the surrounding area and a tiny village 2 miles away. Possibly no more than 3 per mile for a bit then 1 every 2-3 miles.

    None of the houses, and not even this tiny village (2 pubs and five houses), has broadband from cable/ADSL. It's all dongle this and wirelss that. Signal strength with the latest gear, and at the lowest usage (usually 2am) is 700 kb/s. During peak hours it's between 24kb/s to a high of 90kb/s (between 10am - 9pm)

    12 miles up the road is the town, and they have their options of high speed broadband providers with speeds of up to 24mb/s. Will it ever be rolled out to areas such as the one i live in? I've been asking Eircom (we get reps around from time to time) and i'm told in 12 months, another 18 months, another 12 months, etc. For over 8 years i'm getting this, but it never appears. Instead the towns with high speed get faster speeds, 4g, etc. 

    I understand there is a cost to running these lines, but will i ever see decent broadband in the near future?

    Thanks.
    Hi Cass

    If you would like to PM me your specific address I can look in to this for you and check plans for network expansion.

    Also, I suggest checking out these link for details on the national broadband plan

    http://www.dcenr.gov.ie/Communications/National+Broadband+Plan/ & http://www.broadband.gov.ie/

    Thanks

    Al


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