Comments on: The Merlin of Irish Telecoms: ComReg – Irish Telecoms Review 2006 Part 4

By: Peter Rawlinson

Peter Rawlinson — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:08:25 +0000

I’ve a client operating in the UK who would like advice (for one of their customers) on setting up a telecoms operation in Ireland. Since trawling through blog sites I found yours and wondered if you could recommend any solicitors or counsel who are experts in this field.

Regards

By: Damien Mulley » Blog Archive » ComReg bitch at eircom for playing within the rules

Thu, 29 May 2008 11:37:54 +0000

[...] More on my views on ComReg. [...]

By: Seamus Purcell

Seamus Purcell — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:38:45 +0000

The service Irelands population receives from Comreg is all but shocking, not only, the Comreg spin lies, lies and more lies, the comreg site is a complete waste of time and not at all relevant, the call cost site is equally user unfriendly

If there is a vacancy for a grossly incompetent Regulator anywhere in this world or beyond, we have one that should exceed all the poor performance targets with ease

By: jdlongford

jdlongford — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 13:51:50 +0000

Nice to see an honest opinion, Damien. Our service in Ireland is deplorable, and no government minister or agency is willing to take responsibility.

By: Grace

Grace — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:38:16 +0000

Good site!!! I found your site in the google.t

By: magnkg

magnkg — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:44:27 +0000

By: John

John — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:03:26 +0000

There’s a job going in ComReg after Isolde Goggin resigned. Why not start an internet campaign ‘Damien Mulley for ComReg’ to lobby Dempsey and demonstrate how many people expect more.

By: Damien

Damien — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:48:01 +0000

Well spotted Gavin. The issue here is that ComReg are picking and choosing stats. They’ll leave out countries if they’ll make Ireland look worse, not better. The majority of their reports talk about EU statistics and then they throw in mobile stats with countries like Norway and Switzerland. Again, as I keep smacking them with, they are highly selective in their statistics.

By: Tipster

Tipster — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:24:35 +0000

Hmmm … The graph title doesn’t say “EU”, it says “European”. And the inclusion of both Norway and Switzerland would suggest that it it EFTA based rather than EU. (The exclusion of Luxembourg could be explained by its size; I don’t know why Iceland would not be included, though).

By: Gavin

Gavin — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:58:29 +0000

In relation to the graph on mobile prices, not only is Switzerland included, but so is Norway, which is ranked just below Ireland. Neither are members of the EU or are ever likely to be.