Energy infrastructure

During the 70's because of the recession we started to fall behind in the demand for telephone services. This was due to a myriad of factors population densities was probably the main one. Most cities and large towns were fairly ok although the time taken to a achieve connection was abnormally long. However rural Ireland suffered from exactly the same issues as it dose now for broadband.

Albert Reynolds started to change the structure and Telecom Eireann was created on the early eighties. By the late eighties we had caught up and passed out other countries network and remained ahead of it until privitisation of TE in the late 90's. TE was throwing serious dividends to the government for the last ten years before it was sold off. However the damage was done in the 2-3 years pre sale and the decade afterwards where we went from the most advanced telecommunications to one of the worst.

There was no hybrid system there was what was the historical switchboard system, the first automatic platforms which were electromechanical and then digitalisation and now we are onto fiber and IP based platforms.

On electricity again it was since generation capacity was provided by other than the ESB that we went from the lowest to the highest priced electricity in Ireland. The regulator admitted it in the late noughties it needed to rise the price of electricity to get private generated capacity into the network.

I've had 4 brief disconnections this week, last one was this morning, and dozens a year would be normal.

It's possible that they made the offer but i don't think the reason you gave for the refusal is correct. Vincent Daly led Ericsson in Ireland from the 60s until the late 80s, early 90s. He was instrumental in getting the Athlone factory set up. The arrangement with the Irish government being, we'll provide X jobs outside Dublin if P&T buy our equipment. It also helped that he was very well connected and a director of Forbairt. So AT&T could have been coming in with the best offer in the world, they were unlikely to succeed in the pre EU competition law era.

This wasn't the first time AT&T had been screwed by Ericsson. Lars Magnus got his start by ripping off Alexander's patents (as well as others) way back at the start of it all.

https://strom-report.de/electricity-prices-europe/

There's always, dare I say it.. the N word

Thanks for doing all the hard work DaCor so we don't have to!

The SEAI basically saying that we're going to have to go a hell of a lot faster than we're going - but will anyone listen?

There is a way, but many people wouldn't like it. You'd have to have something like an emergency to get people onside, and even then, a lot would complain.

Said like a true blue 🙂

But when you have groups like a Tramore surfers association planning to challenge a Waterford offshore windfarm due to the perceived threats to "their" waves , you know why infrastructure and power generation in Ireland is a slow slow outcome. So much wrangling.