Comments on: 60% of Irish people have never used email

By: LinuxADMINISTRATOR

LinuxADMINISTRATOR — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:05:53 +0000

Fucki’n idiot nation. Nothing goes here as it shoud.
Dumb irish nationalists.
Everyone have a car, but don’t know how to drive it.
Everyone have have a computer, but don’t know what to do with it.
Everyone have a brain but don’t know how to use it!!!

By: No Dependencies /No Logo » Blog Archive » No Mail Today

No Dependencies /No Logo » Blog Archive » No Mail Today — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 11:06:31 +0000

[...] It could be right though, because I found this post quoting this blog about this article regarding a ChoimisiÃºn CraolachÃ¡in na hÃ‰ireann survey (overkill, I know, itâ€™s just so that unbelievers can check my sources), claiming only 40% of the Irish use email. And that includes Dublin. Email isnâ€™t that widespread as I thought then. [...]

By: Donal

Donal — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 12:02:58 +0000

I finally got my broadband from Smart about 5 months after them saying it would be available!

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 08:40:48 +0000

Comreg corroborates these numbers. They report that only 37% of those surveyed have internet access in the home, which would tend to support the premise.

See http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/ComReg0586b.pdf for details.

By: Piaras Kelly

Piaras Kelly — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 21:19:42 +0000

Definitely had to be something wrong with the methodology. Everybody is a white collar job uses email so I’d really like to know what question was posed to them.

By: Branedy

Branedy — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 11:30:35 +0000

That would seem about right. Eircom controls almost the entire ‘last mile’ to internet access. And Eircom has for years fought flat rate access, and broadband. ADSL has been forced on them. I have BT, but it required Eircom to but a ADSL connection into the local switch center to get it done. Until Eircom updates the infrastructure to suport the technology, vast areas of Ireland will go unconnected.

By: Damien

Damien — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 00:24:48 +0000

They surveyed close to 10,000 people!

By: Piaras Kelly

Piaras Kelly — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 21:35:43 +0000

Oh dear God and we want to attract foreign investment here!?

Seriously that figure has to be wrong though. I don’t understand why the Internet research isn’t distributed. All I could find was the listenership data.

By: Donal

Donal — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 15:36:43 +0000

That is quite low (internet usage and broadband subsription rates) but when you take into account the slow roll-out of broadband around the country it’s not that surprising. I’m living in the suburbs of Cork City, not a million miles from the city. The only broadband available to me is Smart and even that has taken since July, when they told me it is available, to get installed. At present I have no telephone line and no broadband as we have had to switch from an Eircom number to a Smart one. The old line was disconnected but unfortunately the change-over to the new one wasn’t as seamless as we hoped for.

Knowledge economy indeed.