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Major Announcement by ESAT/BT

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  • 12-04-2005 8:37pm
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    De Rebel
    Registered Users Posts: 1,109 ✭✭✭


    Yawn :o

    From Breaking News on Ireland.com
    Esat BT announces significant domestic investment
    Last updated: 12-04-05, 18:08

    Esat BT is being renamed BT Ireland and investing €100 million in its business in the country, the company announced today.

    The money is aimed at providing communications services, including broadband, across the country, the company said.

    Bill Murphy, chief executive of BT Ireland, said: "Our transition to BT Ireland signifies our intention to continue competing vigorously across Ireland and around the world and raise the standard of products and services available to both corporate and consumers, enabling Ireland to better compete on a global stage."

    Mr Murphy said that the company was committed to broadband roll-out and had plans to extend the company's reach beyond the 40 Eircom exchanges currently "unbundled" for other companies to use.

    "Broadband is at the very heart of the Government's agenda to create a world-class knowledge economy, and we will play our part in support of this imperative through further investment in local loop unbundling," he said.

    BT acquired the Esat Group in 2000 and now works with 60 per cent of the top 1000 Business and Finance companies.

    The company offers networked IT services to businesses as well as providing phone and internet access for residential properties.

    It employs 930 people in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford.


    © 2005 ireland.com


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    Cabaal
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    Its also been on enn.ie all day > http://www.enn.ie/frontpage/news-9598584.html
    Plus esatbt.com, esatbt.ie and iol.ie now say BT or BT Ireland ;)


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    Gone West
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    What will the typical implications of this be for the home/ end user? IE- more towns being enabled? Cheaper PM cost? No caps? Any ideas?


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    Mr_Man
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    It sounds as if BT are going to follow the trail blazed by Smart and actually start to aggressively unbundle. This in turn would put more pressure on Eircom and the other Eircom clones and drive (more) competition.

    M.


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    De Rebel
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    FuzzyLogic wrote:
    What will the typical implications of this be for the home/ end user? IE- more towns being enabled? Cheaper PM cost? No caps? Any ideas?

    Nothing. No implications at all.

    They have done almost nothing with the 40 exchanges that the tax payed paid them to unbindle. There is no reason whatsoever to believe that they will do anything in the near future.


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    Cabaal
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    De Rebel wrote:
    Nothing. No implications at all.

    They have done almost nothing with the 40 exchanges that the tax payed paid them to unbindle. There is no reason whatsoever to believe that they will do anything in the near future.

    The market is starting to hot up, I think they finally realise theirs good money to be made and people want cheaper phone, dsl and they also want new services such as voip.

    Eircom may be in for some rough competition.


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    eircomtribunal
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    De Rebel wrote:
    They have done almost nothing with the 40 exchanges that the tax payer paid them to unbundle. There is no reason whatsoever to believe that they will do anything in the near future.
    I would not be amazed to see BT not let Smart run away with LLU.
    BT has a pretty good starting position with gear already in the 40 exchanges.
    Some things which made the LLU effort a financial fiasco for Esat then (despite the massive gov grant of some 10 or so million, if I remember rightly), have slowly changed. Access to the exchanges has become cheaper, backhaul has become cheaper. If and when transfer of customers to unbundled lines becomes automated, BT might well step into the LLU arena.

    P.


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    bk
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    Cabaal wrote:
    The market is starting to hot up, I think they finally realise theirs good money to be made and people want cheaper phone, dsl and they also want new services such as voip.

    Or they realise they can't f* about anymore, offering only slightly better then Eircom and being the second biggest player in Ireland.

    Smart is out to eat their lunch, time to fight or die.


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    damien
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    By IrelandOffline's latest calculations there are now 1700 unbundled lines in Ireland. A drop of 6-700 since the first line was unbundled and both Leap and Smart are meant to be unbundling too.

    By the way we'll be releasing a briefing document on LLU sometime this week.


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    jbkenn
    Registered Users Posts: 919 ✭✭✭jbkenn


    De Rebel wrote:
    Nothing. No implications at all.

    They have done almost nothing with the 40 exchanges that the tax payed paid them to unbindle. There is no reason whatsoever to believe that they will do anything in the near future.

    I am with De Rebel on this, more "Telcotwaddle", all talk no action.


    jbkenn


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