Comments on: Irish Broadband failure rate 8000 times higher than NI yet ComReg tells the Govt otherwise

By: Jimmy Sher

Jimmy Sher — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:53:31 +0000

comreg: “eircom has to provide functional internet access”. define “functional” why not put a number say 28k.
comreg: “eircom has to provide reasonable quality” how to you measure reasonable?
They are eircom lackeys. Just look at Smart.
I have dial up, no chance of broadband, running between 14 an 21.6 k. due to line quality. eircom and comreg’s answer you should be ahhpy you can talk on the line.

By: David Doran

David Doran — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:16:20 +0000

Another great post, I hope something will come of all this.
It’s amazing the hoops some of us have to jump through to get a broadband service that is still iffy at best.

By: Bernie Goldbach

Bernie Goldbach — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 17:36:02 +0000

And as the parcel gets passed around, the taxpayers ante up to pay the salaries of those who “regulate” an industry designed to maximise shareholder value.

By: laura

laura — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:16:23 +0000

ComReg are a total joke. They are an emasulated agency, with no powers. They recently informed me that “Broadband is unregulated so we can’t do anything about companies failing to provide a reliable broaband servcie”. This was in relation to ongoing NTL broaband flakiness. The government just passes the buck too. Write to the Minister for Communications on any issue relating to phones, broadband or whatever and you are automatically referred to “The Regulator”. The minister has no responsibility in this area, that is the job of Comreg being the usual response. I see a game of pass the parcel but no one ever gets the prize.

By: Mr T

Mr T — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:35:41 +0000

I believe you can, as long as you stutter on every word.

By: Twenty Major

Twenty Major — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:29:41 +0000

Are you allowed ask ‘Why are ComReg such lying cunts?” in the Dail?

By: Bernie Goldbach

Bernie Goldbach — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 09:24:12 +0000

You have items on this blog post that should be raised as Parliamentary Questions in the Dail.

By: Twenty Major

Twenty Major — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 08:14:02 +0000

Some google juice required to get this or the Ireland Offline site on the first page for a search for ‘comreg’.

For years the people that regulate communications, radio etc in this country have been a pack of self-serving, duplicitous cunts.