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UPC/Virgin media no longer available in parts of North Kildare

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  • 18-01-2016 12:27am
    #1
    Stealthirl
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    Anyone see the bit in the Liffey Champion about this ?
    From May they cant supply tv to some people.


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    Joe Public
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    They are dropping the MMDS service which is currently carrying the UPC/Virgin service via the air to many homes across the country, it's not just a Kildare problem. April 18th is the cut off date.,

    See https://www.virginmedia.ie/mmds/

    Sky is an alternative for those who will be cut off.

    Many places using MMDS probably don't have a good enough speed/quality on broadband over the telephone line to do TV over the internet.

    Just another set back for rural Ireland.


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    Ken.
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    It's sooner than that. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057546919

    April 18th according to that. My father lives in the Curragh and he got a letter last week saying it'll be gone there by 19th of February.


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    Kristopherus
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    Well, the number of MMDS customers has been dropping over the last few years. Despite that, and say there are still 40,000 of them, Virgin Media see fit to dump that number of customers, while offering no alternative. I cannot imagine any other telco/media provider doing that to its customers.Daft imho.


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    L1011
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    Kristopherus wrote: »
    Well, the number of MMDS customers has been dropping over the last few years. Despite that, and say there are still 40,000 of them, Virgin Media see fit to dump that number of customers, while offering no alternative. I cannot imagine any other telco/media provider doing that to its customers.Daft imho.

    They have no other choice - the spectrum licence is expiring. They would have to continue to operate as a pirate otherwise


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    Kristopherus
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    L1011 wrote: »
    They have no other choice - the spectrum licence is expiring. They would have to continue to operate as a pirate otherwise

    They had a choice. They could have applied for an extension of the licence, for, say 5/6 years. At the rate telecom communications are expanding around the country, there would be a good chance that iptv woud be workable. After all that is what Virgin & Eir are doing with their current fibre customers.


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    L1011
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    Kristopherus wrote: »
    They had a choice. They could have applied for an extension of the licence, for, say 5/6 years. At the rate telecom communications are expanding around the country, there would be a good chance that iptv woud be workable. After all that is what Virgin & Eir are doing with their current fibre customers.

    No, they couldn't - the decision by Comreg was absolutely final; no further extensions were ever going to be granted. The expiry this year *is* the final extension of a number issued over the years.

    MMDS had to close, end of.


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    Ken.
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    It's a bitch for my old man. He can barely work a remote so the only option is Sky because to get tv through Eir you have to get broadband. I cannot get it in to his head that having it and not using it is ok. Might as well be trying to explain quantum theory to a mouse.


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    Stheno
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    L1011 wrote: »
    No, they couldn't - the decision by Comreg was absolutely final; no further extensions were ever going to be granted. The expiry this year *is* the final extension of a number issued over the years.

    MMDS had to close, end of.

    Exactly, this is out of the control of Virgin, there is nothing they can do about the Comreg decision


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    Orion
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    L1011 wrote: »
    No, they couldn't - the decision by Comreg was absolutely final; no further extensions were ever going to be granted. The expiry this year *is* the final extension of a number issued over the years.

    MMDS had to close, end of.

    But the Champion in their extensive investigation of this said:
    "Virgin Media are discontinuing the provision of MMDS services to home across the country". There then is an extensive quote from VM which to anyone who understands it reads they have no choice in this but don't let the truth get in the way of the headline "frustration for residents over TV provider".

    You're absolutely right that they have no choice. But rather than the rag point at Comreg they blame Virgin.


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    Stheno
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    Orion wrote: »
    But the Champion in their extensive investigation of this said:
    "Virgin Media are discontinuing the provision of MMDS services to home across the country". There then is an extensive quote from VM which to anyone who understands it reads they have no choice in this but don't let the truth get in the way of the headline "frustration for residents over TV provider".

    You're absolutely right that they have no choice. But rather than the rag point at Comreg they blame Virgin.

    Virgin are actually in a terrible position with this as a provider, there appear to be some sort of regulations in place where they are only allowed to announce they can no longer provide it, but cannot suggest alternatives etc.

    Regulation is the crippler for them here.


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