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ALERT!!! IOFFL + Smart + eircom on Today FM 6.15pm - Send in comments

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  • 15-03-2005 5:18pm
    #1
    damien
    Registered Users Posts: 4,290 ✭✭✭


    EDIT:
    TodayFM announced IrelandOffline are on too now. That was meant to be a surprise !

    Eircom will be on the Last Word at 6.15 tonight talking about Broadband. If
    you can tune in, please do so and send your comments to: lastword@todayfm.com

    You can also text in your comments to 085 4100 102 , the more comments the
    better.

    Damien.


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    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    I'm curious as to how Eircom would handle their policy of not appearing at the same time as IrelandOffline if an IrelandOffline committee member got on the air. Would they spontaneously combust?

    adam /fingers crossed on both fronts


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    damien
    Registered Users Posts: 4,290 ✭✭✭damien


    Well, they ruined the surprise. David McRedmond from eircom is on too.


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    Jorinn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 781 ✭✭✭Jorinn


    LIve feed on this page, links to pop up window.

    http://www.todayfm.com/article.asp?id=15131


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    Sponge Bob
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    I'll give 1-10 on that there will be a no show from Eircom :)


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    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    damien.m wrote:
    Well, they ruined the surprise. David McRedmond from eircom is on too.
    Chances of a last minute no-show? :/


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    #7
    ^pt^
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭^pt^


    An ad for eircom broadband on just now :p


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    #8
    damien
    Registered Users Posts: 4,290 ✭✭✭damien


    Send in emails and txts !


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    #9
    ^pt^
    Registered Users Posts: 103 ✭✭^pt^


    How are they going to squeeze in so many topics before 7pm?

    Good luck btw, whoever's going on!


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    jwt
    Registered Users Posts: 849 ✭✭✭jwt


    Delayed for another 10 to 15 minutes

    john


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    damien
    Registered Users Posts: 4,290 ✭✭✭damien


    Good luck JWT.


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    #12
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Someone record it. I'm gonna miss it cos I have to head home now :/


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    Sarsfield
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭Sarsfield


    Same as seamus - can someone put up an mp3 later? I've got to go now.


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    sinjin_smythe
    Registered Users Posts: 995 ✭✭✭sinjin_smythe


    Hve to wait for news to finish but will be on


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    viking
    Registered Users Posts: 1,504 ✭✭✭viking


    Will record it.

    Knock 'em dead John!


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    mike65
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    You can check it out here http://www.radioireland.ie/lastword/lastword.html
    tomorrow if you miss it.

    Mike.


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    cgarvey
    Registered Users Posts: 3,886 ✭✭✭cgarvey


    McRedmond and Timmons on now :)


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    Jorinn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 781 ✭✭✭Jorinn


    Hmm, oisin fanning said 8mbit available within 4km from smart, wonder when they plan to price that.


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    #19
    sinjin_smythe
    Registered Users Posts: 995 ✭✭✭sinjin_smythe


    That was CRAP ONLY ABOUT 5 MINS LONG


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    #20
    Poz3D
    Registered Users Posts: 191 ✭✭Poz3D


    Very short indeed :(


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    #21
    cgarvey
    Registered Users Posts: 3,886 ✭✭✭cgarvey


    rip will be along shortly


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    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    Well don John, great putdown of McRedmond's usual bullsh*t!

    adam


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    #23
    damien
    Registered Users Posts: 4,290 ✭✭✭damien


    Well done to John for ripping into eircom's percentages bull****.


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    #24
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Well thats that...one day we'll get a really good oppotunity to demollish eircom, The Last Word is too tightly formatted to be much use for in-depth debate.

    Mike.


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    SantaHoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,488 ✭✭✭SantaHoe


    I'm surprised the phrase "dragged kicking and screaming" didn't enter the conversation once. :rolleyes:
    All this - we're pushing broadband forward shpeel.
    No answers, but then I wasn't expecting any... pretty weak interviewing to let the eircom rep waffle away hard questions with marketing drivel.


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    Blaster99
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,630 ✭✭✭Blaster99


    I don't think it was crap at all. The most interesting [technical] bits were the Smart 8Mbps claim and that Eircom will apparently fix problems to deliver broadband to people who order it, even if the pre-qual fails. That's what we like to hear. Mind you, I know a guy who's going through this process right now and it's not exactly going anywhere, so the jury is still out.

    Yer man McRedmond is pretty handy with the ol' spin. Interesting to notice Smart giving out about the LLU process. Not often the competitors make noise about Eircom's practices in public.


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    Mr_Man
    Registered Users Posts: 638 ✭✭✭Mr_Man


    I rang in with a comment challenging McRedmond's claims that they will do all within reason to help a customer get broadband. However no comments were read out, :(

    M.


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    cgarvey
    Registered Users Posts: 3,886 ✭✭✭cgarvey


    Rip is here in 16Kbps mp3 (~1.2MB). PM for lower quality formats if you need them.

    .cg


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    viking
    Registered Users Posts: 1,504 ✭✭✭viking


    cgarvey wrote:
    Rip is here in 16Kbps mp3 (~1.2MB). PM for lower quality formats if you need them.

    .cg

    Arggh, didn't realise you were doing it also. Ah well...

    G


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    #30
    shinzon
    Registered Users Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭shinzon


    i dont think anyone meant it was crap in that way, it was way to short for an indepth debate on it, and Irelandoffline only got a look in once during the whole thing

    Disappointed in length but not in the content, hmm wonder could people hold mcredmond to the point he made that eircom will do its best to help a person get broadband as it was said on air

    Shin

    Wish theyd bloody well read some e-mails on air though, gets annoying when you send them and they completely ignore them due to lack of time


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    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Nice one Cathal.

    Short enough, McRedmond got fairly slaughtered though. I liked Oisin Fanning's "balls-out-no-bull****" approach. Claiming on-air that he believed eircom would deliberately try to delay LLU? Nice.

    Also, McRedmond saying that "Eircom are scrapping the pre-qual and will give DSL to anyone who wants it"? Can we get this quoted exactly and use it? Next time someone rings eircom sales - "Sorry, you don't pass the pre-qual", "So?".

    :)

    [Edit: Snap shinzon. How 'bout you ring them up tomorrow and quote him - You are still having trouble getting it?]


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