They pulled out because the government sold off the profitable part of the package mid bid and left only the complete shite.
The guy from imagine was on the radio the other day (I know heās biased) and he reckoned the broadband rollout should be only concerned with getting fibre connections to all main boxes in towns and villages and let wireless look after it from there. He felt the idea of rolling out fibre to every home was absolute insanity.
Johnny and Mary living 2 miles down a passage in the arsehole of Donegal or West Cork or whatever canāt expect a fibre cable to be laid to their door. Or anywhere near them for that matter.
It does not seem logical to put fibre down to every home alright. Fair enough spending a bit extra in the short term on other solutions. Long term we shouldnāt be planning like that.
Supposedly the last 100k houses are a massively disproportionate amount of the cost. As in if you just said look thereās a 100k houses that we just canāt offer fibre broadband to we could save a billion euro
The pole of the hayshed would suffice if you hadnāt an oulā dolmen handy.
I like your thinking - Peter Casey ought to be informed as thereās 100k votes in the idea.
Fuck fibre and all that jargon, a balloon and a rope and weāre jakeyā¦
So if you were in rural Limerick and not on a main road who would you recommend and would you expect to get 10MB anywhere in Limerick? Are that Munster Broadband crowd still operating? I was with them years ago but theyād lose connection with you for two days as soon as windy weather hit. Theyāre probably better now but Iām with Eir and very happy with them. I have fibre optics going up the road outside the house though.
If you have 10mb or similar service from eir then stay with them. Do ring up and threaten to leave for a better service and see if you can get some loyalty reward or a cut in price
If broadband is successfully rolled out to rural Ireland, the servers in the DoneDeal cloud will explode with all the roasters trying to access HD pics of Limousin heifers and Ifor Williams trailers.
As Iāve posted before, there has been a marked decline in interest in the GGA since broadband expanded across the State. This could finish it once and for all.
