Comments on: You mean mobile dialup, right? http://www.mulley.net/2008/09/10/you-mean-mobile-dialup-right/ Invisible people have invisible rights Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:55:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: barry http://www.mulley.net/2008/09/10/you-mean-mobile-dialup-right/comment-page-1/#comment-911072 barry Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:58:00 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/?p=4311#comment-911072 Seen this?? http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/11451/ extract - "Writing to Reding, the director of regulatory affairs at Smart Telecom told the fiery EU telecoms commissioner that LLU in Ireland has been a total failure, with only 19,000 unbundled paths in the entire Irish market. This is despite very significant investments by various licensed operators — in Smart’s case some €60m. In a letter seen by siliconrepublic.com, Quinn wrote: “The result of the failure of LLU is a lack of choice for consumers, a lack of innovation, a lack of new investment in LLU and consequently an incumbent operator with a constant retail market share of 70pc of the retail DSL market and over 95pc of the entire DSL market in relation to retail and wholesale bitstream services (both of which are almost identical from a consumer perspective)." wonder if it will make any fucking difference? Bye, Barry Seen this??

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/article/11451/

extract -

“Writing to Reding, the director of regulatory affairs at Smart Telecom told the fiery EU telecoms commissioner that LLU in Ireland has been a total failure, with only 19,000 unbundled paths in the entire Irish market.

This is despite very significant investments by various licensed operators — in Smart’s case some €60m.

In a letter seen by siliconrepublic.com, Quinn wrote: “The result of the failure of LLU is a lack of choice for consumers, a lack of innovation, a lack of new investment in LLU and consequently an incumbent operator with a constant retail market share of 70pc of the retail DSL market and over 95pc of the entire DSL market in relation to retail and wholesale bitstream services (both of which are almost identical from a consumer perspective).”

wonder if it will make any fucking difference?

Bye, Barry

]]> By: Steph http://www.mulley.net/2008/09/10/you-mean-mobile-dialup-right/comment-page-1/#comment-910896 Steph Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:27:12 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/?p=4311#comment-910896 Got the Three dongle, total pants in Dublin city, took it back before the trial period expires over 2 weeks ago and still waiting on my 'deposit' back. It's now with the finance office. Got the Three dongle, total pants in Dublin city, took it back before the trial period expires over 2 weeks ago and still waiting on my ‘deposit’ back. It’s now with the finance office.

]]> By: PK http://www.mulley.net/2008/09/10/you-mean-mobile-dialup-right/comment-page-1/#comment-910849 PK Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:26:39 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/?p=4311#comment-910849 In fairness to mobile broadband, I've been testing my iPhone 3G speeds versus my home eircom connection and the 3G has won almost every time. In fairness to mobile broadband, I’ve been testing my iPhone 3G speeds versus my home eircom connection and the 3G has won almost every time.

]]> By: Daragh O Brien http://www.mulley.net/2008/09/10/you-mean-mobile-dialup-right/comment-page-1/#comment-910836 Daragh O Brien Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:15:02 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/?p=4311#comment-910836 PK - why let statistics and facts get in the way of a good press release? PK – why let statistics and facts get in the way of a good press release?

]]> By: PK http://www.mulley.net/2008/09/10/you-mean-mobile-dialup-right/comment-page-1/#comment-910833 PK Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:39:17 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/?p=4311#comment-910833 Also interesting is that to qualify for mobile broadband the operators count anyone who has download any thing through the network in the past 3 months (longer in the case of some providers). David Tyler's comments (by way of Piaras Kelly) about the 02 experience really make the point that access means squat. In this he quotes comments by O2 UK that only 1.8% of non-iPhone users get through more than 25MB of data usage a month (iPhone users are hugely different with 60%). Therefore, using the 1.8% (ignoring the iPhone) we should probably be saying the mobile broadband connection for all intensive purposes this about 4,000 people. Not as impressive as the DCENR numbers. Also interesting is that to qualify for mobile broadband the operators count anyone who has download any thing through the network in the past 3 months (longer in the case of some providers). David Tyler’s comments (by way of Piaras Kelly) about the 02 experience really make the point that access means squat.

In this he quotes comments by O2 UK that only 1.8% of non-iPhone users get through more than 25MB of data usage a month (iPhone users are hugely different with 60%). Therefore, using the 1.8% (ignoring the iPhone) we should probably be saying the mobile broadband connection for all intensive purposes this about 4,000 people. Not as impressive as the DCENR numbers.

]]> By: Daragh O Brien http://www.mulley.net/2008/09/10/you-mean-mobile-dialup-right/comment-page-1/#comment-910827 Daragh O Brien Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:34:22 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/?p=4311#comment-910827 Thank you Aidan for getting the reference. I fear that it is a European swallow.. not so good, and prone to interference from trees and days of the week featuring a "Y". @Rob Synott.. I live in a rural area (only the ESB seem to have realised that the population in my village in wexford has more than tripled in the last 5 years). My vodafone dongle is at best a zen buddhist training tool... I spend a lot of time pondering the concept of nothing while waiting for mulley.net to load. Rumour has it that the local eircom exchange will be upgraded by end of next month. Breath. Me. Holding. Not. Rearrange. My best vodafone broadband speeds have been logged on the Dublin to Rosslare train just north of Arklow. After that I'm looking for a carrier pigeon who can do mime. Thank you Aidan for getting the reference. I fear that it is a European swallow.. not so good, and prone to interference from trees and days of the week featuring a “Y”.

@Rob Synott.. I live in a rural area (only the ESB seem to have realised that the population in my village in wexford has more than tripled in the last 5 years). My vodafone dongle is at best a zen buddhist training tool… I spend a lot of time pondering the concept of nothing while waiting for mulley.net to load. Rumour has it that the local eircom exchange will be upgraded by end of next month. Breath. Me. Holding. Not. Rearrange.

My best vodafone broadband speeds have been logged on the Dublin to Rosslare train just north of Arklow. After that I’m looking for a carrier pigeon who can do mime.

]]> By: Tommo http://www.mulley.net/2008/09/10/you-mean-mobile-dialup-right/comment-page-1/#comment-910822 Tommo Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:37:09 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/?p=4311#comment-910822 Why do we have a regulator at all?? , can we abolish this quango ?? Why do we have a regulator at all?? , can we abolish this quango ??

]]> By: Markham http://www.mulley.net/2008/09/10/you-mean-mobile-dialup-right/comment-page-1/#comment-910821 Markham Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:12:59 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/?p=4311#comment-910821 Took ten seconds to load this page with my Three mobile dongle. Took ten seconds to load this page with my Three mobile dongle.

]]> By: Damien http://www.mulley.net/2008/09/10/you-mean-mobile-dialup-right/comment-page-1/#comment-910820 Damien Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:10:27 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/?p=4311#comment-910820 It's not an eircom issue, got this from BT themselves this evening. It’s not an eircom issue, got this from BT themselves this evening.

]]> By: Gamma Goblin http://www.mulley.net/2008/09/10/you-mean-mobile-dialup-right/comment-page-1/#comment-910819 Gamma Goblin Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:03:20 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/?p=4311#comment-910819 Well at least I'm able to surf the web with my crappy 3 3G mobile broadband connection, thats more than I can say for my 8MB DSL line.... its still fucked up. I finally got an e-mail back from tech support, nearly two weeks after emailing them. "Oh, this isn't our problem, its something got to do with Eircom... check out boards.ie if you don't believe me". Awww booo fucking hoo, maybe I'll get my daddy to go around and smack their bumbums for you. Jesus fucking christ, they answer my problem by telling me one of their own!! Well at least I’m able to surf the web with my crappy 3 3G mobile broadband connection, thats more than I can say for my 8MB DSL line…. its still fucked up. I finally got an e-mail back from tech support, nearly two weeks after emailing them. “Oh, this isn’t our problem, its something got to do with Eircom… check out boards.ie if you don’t believe me”. Awww booo fucking hoo, maybe I’ll get my daddy to go around and smack their bumbums for you. Jesus fucking christ, they answer my problem by telling me one of their own!!

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