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Broadband Stakeholder Group report

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  • 22-06-2005 3:46pm
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    JohnC.
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    This is actually a report for the Department of Trade and Industry in the UK, but it covers broadband in the G7, Australia, Ireland, South Korea and Sweden.
    http://www.broadbanduk.org/reports/dti/gov_reports_13_06_05.htm
    That page links to the report, which is a PDF.
    Various bar graphs and stuff, naturally showing Ireland lagging behind in many areas. Although I was surprised that we appear to be top of the table for VoIP, in the business area at least.

    I'll leave further analysis to those more qualified than I.


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    viking
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    Interesting document.
    The Irish broadband market has had a slow start, with little investment from eircom until recently and a low percentage of the cable networks being upgraded to offer cable modem services. FWA provides a significant amount of coverage.

    According to ComReg, eircom has enabled exchanges covering approximately 80% of the Irish population and aims to cover 90% by March 2006. The company offers 1 and 2Mbit/s ADSL services and has previously said that 76% of enabled lines are capable of supporting 256–512kbit/s services;
    But the report sees through Comreg's regurgitation of eircom's misinformation and calls it as it should be:
    applying this percentage, we see that eircom can currently supply ADSL to 61% of the Irish population.
    Why is it so difficult for Comreg to do simple mathematics and state the true population coverage figure->

    80 * 0.76 = 60.8% (lets be generous and call it 61%)

    Viking


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