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Important - need info re: broadband (or lack of it)

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  • #32
    po0k
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    I'm going to quote from today's (Sun. 15th April) Sunday Tribune business supplement:
    "Eircom paid £5m to DSL consultants" -headline
    "sources in the Telecoms industry had indicated that Eircom had spent in excess of £20million in consultancy fees in SETTING UP DSL."
    "The DSL offering has been considerably pared down and will now be confined to offering high-speed internet access <Loverly stuff-more bandwidth for games! smile.gif>with the television and video aspects being postponed until late next year, at the earliest."
    "It is not know how much Eirocm has invested in the development of DSL over the past three years"
    In another article:
    " ODTR pushes for September DSL launch" -Headline
    Paraphrasing " ODTR says DSL will be in by sempt., Alfie KEan says by Mar. 2002 earliest"
    "No tele can offer DSL without LLU, Eircom said they had technical dificulties with it, went winging to ODTR, who did not spank them for their insolence <again paraphrasing here>"
    Actual quote now "Business users might have DSL before that but for home use the most sutiable kind of unbundling <loosely used here!> is bitstream access" -Aileen Canning, ODTR
    bitstream is like a winmodem, not as good as the real thing. Esat rents Eircom's equipment, but can't put in their own into the exchanges. Therefore Eircom can offer the cheapest rates eventhough "Eircom is leagally obliged to offer this package of managed access to homes at the same price it charges to its own retail arm" -again Aileen Canning, ODTR.
    Quoting Sun, trib now "Canning believes most operators offering home services will offer this product. This means fast internet services from differnet operators are likely to be nearly identical since they will be based on the same Eircom package."
    "The September service depends on Eircom providing the ODTR with cost information this week so that a wholesale price can be determined"
    For Fúck's Sake. Even the ODTR has 'Finger-up-bum' on this thing..........
    [VTi]Syxpak (moving to States or London for DSL - probably never coming back neither)
    No-one ever suspects the Duck
    He who must die, must die in the dark even though he sells candles


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