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The Register on the new ODTR SmackDown

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  • 27-09-2001 6:21pm
    #1
    R. Daneel Olivaw
    Closed Accounts Posts: 186 ✭✭


    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/22/21911.html

    This is for the benefit of those who don't read The Reg regular, like. They just have the info on the ODTR documents that came out yesterday about having beeotch slap Eircom around until they stop playing love-monkey with the prices.

    e50 (I can't do the euro thing) wholsale is a fine price. That's around £40 wholesale, so we could feasibly expect prices in the range of £60-70.


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    Urban Weigl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,784 ✭✭✭Urban Weigl


    I think it's extremely unfair how some individuals are blaming the ODTR for the delay in the launch of ADSL. If there's anybody to blame, it's Eircom. And maybe our government as well -- they haven't given the ODTR enough powers.


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    b20uvkft6m5xwg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,695 ✭✭✭b20uvkft6m5xwg


    Well if this article says anything... It is that IrelandOffline are the Official voice for average Irish Internet consumers.
    However, the delay has riled those lobbying for broadband access in Ireland.

    Said Elana Kehoe of Ireland Offline: "This is getting beyond frustrating. I guess we can't really complain because the ODTR is looking out for the best interests of consumers.

    "Except it is consumers who are caught in the middle of this slanging match. It is the consumer that is going to be losing out," she said.

    Another tick in the objectives column me thinks;)

    Well done guys! Way to go Elana:)


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    chernobyl
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    the register seems completely out of touch and someone should correct them.


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    #5
    Bard
    Registered Users Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Bard


    chernobyl - I don't get you... (?) how are they out of touch?

    80project - well said! I agree...

    nice (albeit mis-spelled... it should say "slagging" rather than "slanging" surely!) quote there ...

    well done again Elana.

    --

    Note: I've added a link to this article to the MEDIA section of our news pages in our web site. Our web site will be re-launched within the next 24 hours or so.


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    b20uvkft6m5xwg
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    Originally posted by chernobyl
    the register seems completely out of touch and someone should correct them.

    I think they were just consice with the information they gave, which is understanable given the media style they operate. Short and sweet! There was nothing innacurate just possibly incomplete in reporting the wider issues:)


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    chernobyl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,682 ✭✭✭chernobyl


    short and sweet aka ugly tabloid.


    They suggest that the ODTR is the only rhing standing bewtween Irish peeps and DSL which if you take the facts literally, it is true, but there is a wider angle to the whole story, but that would not suite "The Reg's" 4 lines of report space.


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    b20uvkft6m5xwg
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    Ah well,
    Its free publicity

    Sometimes the reg is infuriating though:mad:


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