ComReg Quarterly Report is out

damien

http://www.comreg.ie/whats_new/default.asp?ctype=5&nid=101986

All fabtastic news as usual.

cgarvey

Comreg have released their quarterly report.. http://url.ie/5i .. and on page 22 they deal with ADSL.

Ireland is 2nd last for "Lowest Monthly Rental ADSL Basket" (lowest per mega-bit pricing). Ireland is 10th (of 14) for DSL rental rates.

Interestingly, Ireland has slipped another place since the last quarter, which would support the argument that eircom's under-investment in it's network is causing us to fall further behind, and not play catch up, like McRedmond suggests.

Also of interest is that they've left out Greece altogether because of their "excessive" pricing.

Only 2 other countries offer 512kbps/128kbps or lower as an entry level product.

Of course Smart's entry and ericom's recent speed upgrade announcement will alter those figures next quarter.

damien

I think our own research will be way off compared to ComReg. Spain appears cheaper according to our investigations and it didn't cost us 10k either.

eircomtribunal

For the first time in history ComReg gives straight "Home Internet Penetration" figures as "percentage of all households", as the OECD orders.
No more misleading claims like this:


Our Home Internet Penetration is now stated as 38.2% of all households.
Comreg says it's now the Central Statistics Office's task to publish these figures. In he end 2004 Quarterly report Comreg only gave a (useless unspecified) link to the CSO website, this time ComReg publishes the CSO figures in a graph, showing a 4.7% increase to 38.2% since in 2003.
What ComReg is not telling us in its report: The CSO figures are the June figures. ComReg's own Amarach research showed a decline during last year (green columns are the only correct ones):

While I find it myself hard to believe that we had a decline, it is still worth to keep a close eye on the development of the "Home Internet Penetration" figures, as this is the basis for a continued broadband growth.

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eircomtribunal

eircomtribunal wrote:

From Comregs latest Quarterly 2005 report "Our Home Internet Penetration is now stated as 38.2% of all households."

Have to add another gem from Comreg's history of deception. Here's how they mislead us in 2002 into believing all was well with Internet progress and regulation, when all the signs would have been here to ring the alarm bells.




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dahamsta

This Just In: Comreg Liars. Film at 11.

Praetorian

ComReg are pathetic liars, and the minister doesn't seem to give a dámn. So are we fúcked?