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URGENT: ComReg Strategy Submission - Please send something today

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  • 17-08-2005 11:12am
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    damien
    Registered Users Posts: 4,290 ✭✭✭


    ComReg are taking submissions on their Strategy Statement until 5pm today 17th August
    Send submissions to: marketdevelopmentconsult@comreg.ie

    List of Questions
    Q. 1. Do you agree with ComReg's analysis of the external market and
    legislative environments? Are there other key short term developments that
    ComReg needs to consider? Page14 of PDF

    Q. 2. Do you consider that ComReg provides sufficient opportunities for
    stakeholders' views to be heard? If not then how could we improve? Are there
    other key stakeholders that ComReg needs to consider? Page16 of PDF

    Q. 3. ComReg is proposing to revise its mission statement and its core values
    to reflect changes in both the market and ComReg's regulatory duties. Do you
    think the revised mission statement and values set out above are appropriate? Page17 of PDF

    Q.4 Do you agree with the objectives and strategies set out above? Are there
    additional objectives that ComReg should agree? Page21 of PDF

    You can see IrelandOffline's submission here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=272887

    Since you do not have a lot of time I'd suggest just sending in Bullet points. If you can take 15-30 minutes out to send something tom ComReg it will make a big difference. Generally it is only Telcos and the likes of IrelandOffline and ComWreck who send in submissions like this. While we do try and represent the views of the general consumer it is still good for individuals to make their voices heard.


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


    Sent


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    eircomtribunal
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭eircomtribunal


    Replies have not to be as comprehensive – and good – as the IOFFL one.
    I responded on one point only, the misinformation ComReg puts out in their Strategy document about dsl availability. My response can be downloaded here as a pdf document.
    ...Conclusion
    A regulator who is not able or willing to tell the public the truth about the failure to supply broadband to more than 60% of lines can not be trusted to implement apt regulatory policies and strategies.
    Several of the deficiencies of communications regulation in Ireland are not of ComReg’s own making. But the decision to misinform the public about the facts of Internet and Broadband development is made by the regulator without outside pressure or constraints.
    The public expects the regulator to inform correctly. The “guardians” of ComReg, the Oireachtas Committee on Communications, and the Department of Communications should put a stop to this damaging misinformation practice if the regulator is not willing to do so on its own.

    ComReg should withdraw the incorrect Broadband availability chart from its Strategy paper and clearly state the hard truths about the level of
    • DSL-broadband availability, measured in percentage of lines capable of carrying broadband,
    • end-user broadband availability by all platforms,
    • Irish Home Internet penetration,
    • Irish end-user broadband take-up (penetration measured in numbers of broadband connections per 100 inhabitants),
    all in the proper context EC and OECD figures, so that a meaningful discussion about and intelligent decisions for our Internet and Broadband future can take place.

    P.


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