Smart in Galway.

rabbitinlights

Sorry if this has been answered before, but search is down.

Does anyone know what the current situation is with Smart in Galway is?

Ive been waiting for ages now and still nothing from them, not even a phone call to say, "its actually going to be a few more months...."

any info Garfield?


Sean.

awhir

ya my bro is geting realy pissed of because they were ment to do up mervue ages ago.

oilfoster

Galway HPO: planned "live" time 4 weeks
Shantalla: planned "live" time 4 weeks
Mervue: planned "live" time 4 weeks.
Note that these are estimated, there are so many variables in unbundling an exchange that dates sometimes slip. However, if these dates slip, it will only be by a couple of weeks.
Ciarán

GarfieldConnoll

rabbitinlights wrote:

Sorry if this has been answered before, but search is down.Does anyone know what the current situation is with Smart in Galway is?
Ive been waiting for ages now and still nothing from them, not even a phone call to say, "its actually going to be a few more months...."
any info Garfield?
Sean.

Sean,

Just back from holidays, will get an update on Monday, though Oilfoster seems to be fairly confident about the dates.

Garfield.

Jor

Rabbit,

Do not believe Smart! Do not believe Garfield!!
They are just an elaborate trick designed by Eircom to torment those of us who won't pay extortion money for Eircom BB. They don't exist! They ARE magic, an illusion designed to fool people.

I signed up to Smart in April. They ( or to be accurate " The voices" ) told me my local exchange in Waterford would be available by the end of June.
Still nothing.
I phoned up the voices and they said they were too busy trying to overthrow the government to do anything.
With nothing else to do, I retraced Garfields postings. His signature where he lists the places with and due Smart BB has not changed since March.
Finally, I sent out a team of investigators to all the places where he listed the service as available. They all turned up DEAD! What reports I received from them beforehand lead me to believe that all Smart customers in these areas are the victims of BODYSNATCHERS!!!!!!!!!

So, best of luck dealing with them.
Just don't get paranoid

Stephen

A users current signature will be applied to all their past posts - vbulletin just pulls it out of the database and tacks it on to the old posts when you view them, which explains why it looks like it hasn't changed in 7 months(!).

You have a point though, I mailed them a couple of days ago asking if they have anything more concrete than "this year" for Kilkenny exchange. The guy who replied kind of insinuated that "this year" probably won't even cover it

Sponge Bob

Galway was 8 weeks away 8 weeks ago

patch

Jor wrote:

Rabbit,

Do not believe Smart! Do not believe Garfield!!
They are just an elaborate trick designed by Eircom to torment those of us who won't pay extortion money for Eircom BB. They don't exist! They ARE magic, an illusion designed to fool people.

I signed up to Smart in April. They ( or to be accurate " The voices" ) told me my local exchange in Waterford would be available by the end of June.
Still nothing.
I phoned up the voices and they said they were too busy trying to overthrow the government to do anything.
With nothing else to do, I retraced Garfields postings. His signature where he lists the places with and due Smart BB has not changed since March.
Finally, I sent out a team of investigators to all the places where he listed the service as available. They all turned up DEAD! What reports I received from them beforehand lead me to believe that all Smart customers in these areas are the victims of BODYSNATCHERS!!!!!!!!!

So, best of luck dealing with them.
Just don't get paranoid

Thats the both the funniest and truest post I've seen on Boards in a long time!
Anyways, same here. I went with UTV for a 3 month free trial while waiting for these jokers to go live in Mervue in a so called 4 weeks...
4 mths later I've just started a BT 6 month contract which will tide me over till NTL go fully live in Galway.

Pat.

Marcopolo85

rabbitinlights wrote:

Sorry if this has been answered before, but search is down.

Does anyone know what the current situation is with Smart in Galway is?

Ive been waiting for ages now and still nothing from them, not even a phone call to say, "its actually going to be a few more months...."

any info Garfield?


Sean.

If you've got NTL in Galway, then you can get 1 Meg for €25 per month...... :eek:

OfflerCrocGod

Sponge Bob wrote:

Galway was 8 weeks away 8 weeks ago

Don't worry SpongeBob they are only 8 weeks away.

rabbitinlights

GarfieldConnoll wrote:

Sean,

Just back from holidays, will get an update on Monday, though Oilfoster seems to be fairly confident about the dates.

Garfield.

Any news Garfield?

Im dying to get away from Eircoms €€€€€€€€ Grip!!!!!

GarfieldConnoll

rabbitinlights wrote:

Any news Garfield?

Im dying to get away from Eircoms €€€€€€€€ Grip!!!!!

I'll post tomorrow. Didn't get around to it today, first day back and that....

rabbitinlights

Thanks Garfield. any sort of new is something at least.

Sean.

Sponge Bob

Why do I suspect its 8 weeks ..........again..........or is that still

GarfieldConnoll

Sponge Bob wrote:

Why do I suspect its 8 weeks ..........again..........or is that still

Current update is that we're looking at month end, so four weeks.

Garfield.

PiE

While North Main remains perpetually "next"

GarfieldConnoll

PiE wrote:

While North Main remains perpetually "next"

Problems outside our control, unfortunately.

Garfield.

rabbitinlights

Thanks garfield, 4 weeks aint too bad. once its active, what would be the fastest way to get the changeover done? I dont care about changing numbers and its obviously a self install. Im currently with Eircom.

S.

Fiendish Freddy

As an Irish broadband customer in an exchange that Smart are trying to get into...

To be honest, i think Smart have done well all things considered, i've read about some of the restrictions Eircon have put in place and they really are unbelievable, it makes you wonder whether deregulation has actually given much more power to the consumer.
As far as i know Smart are the only provider that doesnt just resell Eircoms product, they actually go into the exchanges and install their own equipment therefor reducing the grip that Eircom have aswell as reducing the amount of money they make from them... The problem is this gives them the opportunity to restrict the time they have in these badly maintained exchanges thus completely slowing down their local loop unbundling process, along with every other restriction Eircom have in place...

neonitrix

Garfield - any news on smart being available in Portlaoise ? - keep getting told its on the network build this year but no further info.

Anything to add? -

tks

Neonitrix

rabbitinlights

Any news on shantalla.......?

zimbabady

I am gonna get broadband by next week, if i wait till then could smart be live in North Main?

I would love to get smart but the next best ive seen is either Magnet or Digiweb

shayser

zimbabady wrote:

I am gonna get broadband by next week, if i wait till then could smart be live in North Main?

I would love to get smart but the next best ive seen is either Magnet or Digiweb

Any idea what areas Magnet cover? They don't say on their site.

oilfoster

Portlaoise is not on this years programme, beyond our control.

Galway: Shantalla, Mervue, Galway HPO (Eglinton St) are all on course to be live and ready for customers by the end of the month.

Ciarán

vigos

well I might as well ask then, what timeframe for Athlone? I've heard sometime before Christmas?

Sponge Bob

Athlone (either exchange) is not in Garfields sig, therefore nothing will happen until after the court cases and the automated LLU process .

Get a 6 month contract elsewhere and then come back here

vigos

Did just that,signed up with BT last month as I figured it would be a few months alright. Was just curious thats all, so I guess it will be well into next year. Pity!

rtyped

OK it's November,

am I being overly optimistic or has smart enabled the Galway exchanges (mervue, shantalla)?