Tagged: Broadband & News
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Irish Broadband goes West News
01.09.2005 Wireless broadband provider Irish Broadband is opening offices in Galway and has confirmed the establishment of two additional high sites that will give the company 90pc...Categories: CommsTags: Broadband -
PC penetration not sole cause of broadband woes News
22.08.2005 Blaming Ireland’s low PC penetration for the nation’s equally poor broadband penetration is only serving to distract from the bigger issues of high prices, poor competition and...Categories: CommsTags: Broadband -
Pure and simple service News
16.08.2005 The increase in competition, not just in terms of broadband connectivity but across the whole range of business communication services, has been a hard-earned process for the...Categories: CommsTags: Broadband -
Broadband churn driven by desire for cost savings News
15.08.2005 Of the 5pc of businesses that change their service provider in terms of broadband services, some 55pc of these do so for cost savings, a survey from iReach reveals.Categories: CommsTags: Broadband -
23pc of home net users have broadband News
12.08.2005 Some 23pc of home internet subscribers now use a broadband product, with DSL as the main method of broadband access in the home, the latest Trendwatch quarterly survey...Categories: CommsTags: Broadband -
Stand by your MAN News
10.08.2005 Some 12 months into its 15-year contract, E-Net has now taken over running of 20 MANs. These are: Athlone, Ballina, Bunbeg, Carlow, Carrick-on-Shannon, Clonmel, Cork, Dungarvan,...Categories: CommsTags: Broadband -
Irish Broadband plans for customer surge News
05.08.2005 Irish Broadband claims to be signing up more than 400 customers per week and expects this number to grow significantly during the second half of the year. The company also said...Categories: CommsTags: Broadband -
Broadband targets can still be achieved — Dempsey News
02.08.2005 Setting targets in public life — be it hospital waiting lists or broadband customers — is a treacherous affair for any politician. While they can bask in the initial glow of...Categories: CommsTags: Broadband -
Delays to school broadband scheme News
28.07.2005 Like all plans that are epic in scope, the devil is in the detail. It was with much fanfare that an industry-backed plan to roll out DSL, wireless and satellite broadband to...Categories: R&DTags: Broadband -
Irish Exporters bemoan poor broadband provision News
21.07.2005 Slow rollout of broadband will put Irish exporters at a serious disadvantage over trading partners for the next five years, warned the Irish Exporters Association yesterday.Categories: BusinessTags: Broadband -
Bolger is back to bait the broadband competition News
20.07.2005 In a move sure to rankle his competitors, serial telecoms entrepreneur Seán Bolger ( pictured ) hit the streets of Dublin with a compelling broadband service, offering consumers...Categories: CommsTags: Broadband -
The Friday Interview, Mark Mohan, NTL News
15.07.2005 Unlike the US, where cable is king, the use of cable for broadband in Ireland and across Europe is a slow burning fuse rolling inexorably towards a powder keg of explosive...Categories: Careers and EmploymentTags: Broadband -
16 towns approved for Group Broadband Scheme News
06.07.2005 Some €480k in grant aid has been offered to broadband service providers to support the first 16 towns to be approved for the Group Broadband Scheme (GBS), it emerged this morning.Categories: CIOTags: Broadband -
North-South digital divide in Irish schools News
28.06.2005 Computer giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) last night highlighted a wide gulf between schoolchildren in Northern Ireland (NI) – all of whom have access to a computer and the internet...Categories: R&DTags: Broadband -
Wireless broadband extended to Kildare News
27.06.2005 An alternative broadband provider has revealed it has deployed a number of wireless-high sites throughout Kildare, covering key towns such as Maynooth, Leixlip and Celbridge.Categories: CommsTags: Broadband -
Ireland’s broadband performance lamentable News
22.06.2005 UPDATE: At the end of the first quarter of this year Ireland had hit some 152,300 broadband subscribers, a figure critics rage is far below the EU average and they warn that at...Categories: CommsTags: Broadband -
Infrastructure gets up to speed News
20.06.2005 Meath is traditionally known as the royal county. Once the seat of kings it is now a largely rural county and it gives the impression of a sleepy rural backwater. It has 134,000...Categories: BusinessTags: Broadband -
Pure expands satellite broadband reach News
08.06.2005 Pure Telecom today claimed a 300pc increase in satellite broadband subscriptions with high demand from rural businesses unable to avail of DSL and wireless broadband services.Categories: BusinessTags: Broadband -
Netsource and Colt in broadband alliance News
01.06.2005 Business broadband internet service provider Netsource has joined forces with international internet protocol (IP) carrier Colt to offer business-class DSL services to Irish SMEs.Categories: BusinessTags: Broadband -
TDs get up to speed News
30.05.2005 The Houses of the Oireachtas have put out a tender seeking more than 200 broadband connections for the homes and constituency offices of TDs in order to facilitate remote access.Categories: GovernmentTags: Broadband