Comments on: Hello Pierre Danon, Goodbye Philip Nolan

By: Gordon Brown

Gordon Brown — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:57:48 +0000

I have been told I cannot get broadband even though a neighbour 2 doors up has it (I live in the Galway countryside).I have a carrier line and a new line will cost me 125 euro but eircom will not guarantee I can then get broadband.
I live 2 MILES outside Gort and NO broadband is available of any kind.My neighbour told me she had to go to the top of eircom and it took years to get her broadband line.
Recently the phone lines were not working and I had no dial up connection and it took TEN DAYS to fix the problem.
A friend of mine works for eircom in Dublin and he says half of them do an hour or two a day and some drive taxis while they are supposed to be working for the company.
The problem with eircom is that it still has the mentality of the P & T and its like as if its still the 80’s.
They really do stink.

By: Obi 1

Obi 1 — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:08:31 +0000

Pierre has lost his way since leaving BT where it’s easy to make a name for yourself. Don’t expect any major changes and don’t get excited about any quick cures. He needs a job! – Oh and look out for communication regarding franchises!!

By: Henry Barth

Henry Barth — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 17:09:43 +0000

Eircom is a third world joke. Iâ€™ve seen better telephone service in Brazil and Argentina,

Try getting broadband service if you live in the Northwest. Eircom has told me they have no intention of providing more than what they do now. Shite service over antiquated copper wire.

I gave up and finally went to satellite at â‚¬84 a month plus installation plus equipment.

And that is outrageous.

Consider than one man in Oregon, at a cost of $ 5 million, provided state-wide free WiFi.

http://www.wififreespot.com/or.html

If someone in Ireland wanted to give free WiFi to the nation, he/she would be prosecuted.

Ireland is 1/35th the size of Oregon.

The ESB could give broadband through existing electrical wires to every household in Ireland. It is a simple and safe interface. I understand there is a trial going on now in Donegal. But I donâ€™t think weâ€™ll ever e it as long as Eircom and others are around.

Incidentally, in the US you can get broadband for ten euro a month. What’s the problem here?

By: laura

laura — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:00:24 +0000

Oh, I love ericom now. They are our friends. They only took eight months to install a phone line. Amazingly, it works. Is it broadband enabled? Apparently it is.

Eircom’s broadband prices are incredibly steep though. â‚¬29.99 for 1MB? I particularly love their concept of “time” broadband. Only eircom could come up with metering!

We went to NTL for broadband, tired of waiting for eircom to give us a line. After major problems initially, it now works most of the time.

By: Mise

Mise — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 07:13:07 +0000

‘Youâ€™ve left the eircom network in such a state of disrepair that when it rains some people canâ€™t even get voice calls.’

Absolutely…every night at 9:00 or thereabouts I lose telephone and broadband for an hour …D’ya think anyone can figure it out? BT, whom I moved to for cheaper calls, say it’s the line and blame Eircom. And Eircom..well, you know the rest…

There was a policy of taking a phoneline and splitting it between homes or businesses to save on copper.’

It took me six months to get an Eircom engineer (off the record) to admit that my failed broadband test was because of my substandard carrier line, which they somehow managed to fix…but my neighbour is still screwed and now has a dodgy wireless link instead.

By: Jack M

Jack M — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:34:24 +0000

Pat, your forgetting a few things:

1. ESOT
2. ESOT
3. ESOT
4. ComReg

Did I mention ESOT?

By: Mr T.

Mr T. — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 23:23:57 +0000

I think your giving poodles a bad name.

By: Twenty Major

Twenty Major — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 23:00:49 +0000

Didn’t they do that years ago though?

By: Pat Phelan

Pat Phelan — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 22:34:40 +0000

first step, line rental increases
second step, split the company in three
networks
fixed
mobile
third, step, spin off meteor
fourth, step spin off fixed
fifth, start eircom mobile

Thats what my magic looking glass says
nice post Damien