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Yet Another Big Survey puts Ireland last (apart from Greece)

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  • 21-10-2005 6:48pm
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    Sponge Bob
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    another year another survey :( but we are still hanging grimly in there in front of Greece in BB penetration terms , fair fuks to all involved in keeping us ahead of Greece.

    We are , of course , BEHIND EVERYBODY else in the original EU 15 and behind most of the new states that joined last year.

    The ECTA report is Here and more detail here
    Countries which top the European broadband league have succeeded in stimulating competition from a number of sources whilst those which languish at the bottom are characterised by higher incumbent market shares and slow progress towards competition.

    Ireland and Greece were second from bottom and bottom in all the surveys these guys ever did :( Malta is now ahead of us FFS !
    ECTA’s Managing Director, Roger Wilson, said: "These figures confirm that competition, when enabled by effective regulation, really does deliver greater choice and value, and consumers respond by taking up broadband services in ever greater numbers.

    Thats us permanently :mad: ****ed so !!!!

    No regulation and no legislation and no vision and no future .


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    eircomtribunal
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    From the accompanying press release:
    Meanwhile the gap between broadband penetration in 14th ranked Ireland and other countries continues to widen...

    What did Noel Dempsey just say on rte 5-7? We are still in a position to reach the governments goals!

    Damien Kiberd added a P.S. on his Sunday-Times Column, which is not especially interesting in itself, but it's still good that those things are said publicly by all sorts of people:
    PS: Whatever happened to the information society? Does anybody remember the speeches at ard- fheiseanna where politicians proclaimed we had the most “computer-literate young people in the world”? The recent assessment of broadband penetration in Ireland, conducted by the OECD, is little short of disgraceful. Ireland is ranked 19th out of 22 countries, coming in just ahead of Greece, Turkey and Mexico. We are being whipped by the Poles, Czechs and Baltic states. The British are miles ahead of us.

    With the availability of coverage very patchy even in central Dublin, all kinds of alternative solutions are being sought, including more extensive use of wireless technology.

    The abysmal performance of Ireland led to a public row between Martin Cullen, the minister for transport, and Philip Nolan of Eircom at this year’s IMI conference.

    Eircom, for its part, claims that numbers hooked up to broadband are now growing rapidly. We should be careful of the numbers it issues, as these frequently include broadband services sold by other competing providers that are obliged to use the Eircom network. If the OECD figures are correct, there are four times as many people using “dial-up” as there are on broadband.

    P.


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