Comments on: Three Ireland win National Dialup Tender

By: Fast Break

Fast Break — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:58:12 +0000

Hutchison 3G Ireland. Have removed their H/O address from their website. For those of you who need he Head Office address, in Ireland, here it is.

Hutchison 3G Ireland Ltd,
3rd Floor,
6-10, Suffolk Street,
Dublin 2.

Spread it around. It is my opinion that they have a most dreadful and appalling customer service. The staff seemingly have no ears to listen with and seemed to ignore my requests and persisted in talking over me. Rude and bad mannered in the extreme. I had literally had to shout at them in order to get them to shut up and listen. NO JOKING! 6 calls later and no joy! The worst of the worst and these days that says a lot. Good luck.
F.B.

By: Gav Reilly | Public Transport and Broadband

Gav Reilly | Public Transport and Broadband — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:19:38 +0000

[...] revolution, this unparalleled new iteration of Irish society? That’s right, it’s a rickety 3 modem that only works if you’ve appeared on a recent Prime Time or live somewhere that begins with [...]

By: narrow-band

narrow-band — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:56:45 +0000

All I can say is LOLZ to 3 getting this.

Free cash to “upgrade” their network.

God help us all.

Thank God I’m with irkem..they screw you on price, but at least I get my 1.5Mb (supposed to be 4Mb)..and it nevers changes.

By: Damien Mulley » Blog Archive » Sue Pool: eircom, o2, Vodafone or Meteor: Who’ll sue Eamon Ryan first?

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:21:38 +0000

[...] the National Dialup Scheme Three Ireland now are getting Government money to expand their mobile broadband market into areas [...]

By: Niall O'K

Niall O'K — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:27:47 +0000

While I’ve nothing nice to say about 3 (except that I’ve, er, never had a problem with their actual PHONE service), and slightly off topic as it may be… but you should certainly have access to 3G speeds on Meteor now as they apparently finished upgrading their network this summer just gone.

And slightly more off topic, I wonder just how accurate this is…?

By: BNC

BNC — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:54:04 +0000

I’m shocked that Three have got the tender. I was a customer of their broadband for a year and it was unspeakably awful. At peak times, web pages frequently didn’t load, my email timed out and I couldn’t download files without the aid of a downloading program.

How a company that got away with providing a shockingly substandard product should be rewarded with this is beyond belief. I think a lot of people are going to learn how bad this company is.

By: Paul Lee

Paul Lee — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:37:14 +0000

I have Three mobile “broadband” Its cheap but it needs to be cheap because it is pretty poor. The strongest signal is in Dublin where I can only get about 500kb/s. Anywhere else its at 150 – 200.

I agree with Damien- Its a disaster giving the license to Three.

By: Joe Molloy

Joe Molloy — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:29:18 +0000

There is definitely an argument here for tightening up what can be described as ‘broadband’. People have general expectations that it means speeds where you can reliably stream video from youtube etc Mobile broadband so frequently falls short of even this simple expectation that I think we need some regulation here to police the claims made by providers. Even adding the phrase ‘Speeds quoted are under ideal conditions’ might help consumers realise that what is advertised may not be what you actually get.

The sad fact is that even for traditional fixed line broadband there is no regulation here. How can we realistically expect to have a great broadband system when the providers write the rulebook?

By: Declan

Declan — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:19:39 +0000

The problem is many many ordinary people will think that the 3 wireless service is broadband. They think internet that doesnt involve disconnecting your house phone is broadband. They just dont understand broadband. Only two weeks ago I was home in Clonmel trying to convince my father that the little 3 dongle getting speeds slower than my mobile phone was not broadband. He shrugged and said “it’ll do what I want”. That “t’will do” attitude will keep Ireland in the dial up era for years to come.

By: Damien Mulley

Damien Mulley — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:17:11 +0000

Fixed