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A possible approach to take with the ODTR

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  • 12-09-2001 6:04pm
    #1
    glimmerman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 282 ✭✭


    How much of a technical clue does the ODTR really have?

    I suspect not too much, dealing more with law than really technical issues.

    If so, here's a possible approach to take to them regarding the caps and prices EIRCOM proposes: show them how much TIME will be taken in using up the cap, for the price quoted by eircom:

    so if we take the lowest priced offer (solo at IR£77), we see that we have a download speed of 512kbits/second

    and we have a cap of 3 gigabytes, or 24e9 bits

    assume that we get an average download rate of 256kbits/s (this may be relatively optimistic)..
    this leaves us with 24e9/256000 = 93750 seconds, or 26 hours of downloading... a month.

    Is that what we're paying £80 for "always on" broadband for? Show the ODTR an actual example of what these caps mean in real life (vary the average download rate according to what people testing typically saw), and show ODTR these figures, to give them an actual "real-world" feel for what we'll get for our money.

    STOP THE CAPS!


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    #2
    Paulw
    Registered Users Posts: 13,381 ✭✭✭✭Paulw


    I sent an email to the ODTR to complain about the Eircom prices and cap.

    Here's the response I got -

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    All I can say at this time is that the ODTR have not
    approved eircom's prices and will issue a statement shortly.


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    It'll be interesting to see what the ODTR have to say now. Maybe if there are enough complaints they might pay attention -- telecoms@odtr.ie


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