[ILUG] [Completely OT] ISP service

[Fergal Daly]

Allow me to stand corrected!

http://www.businessandfinance.ie/news/9.html

says that Eircom have postponed their DSL roll out. I have no idea if this
means they will not offer bitstream access to OLOs, I hope the ODTR will
make them do this, otherwise no one will be doing DSL.

This also shouldn't effect co-location as I think this was an EU mandate, so
at some stage, no matter what Eircom do, the OLOs will be able to offer
services at some stage,

Fergal


On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 11:16:12AM +0000, Fergal Daly wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 10:47:31AM +0000, John P . Looney wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 09:13:29AM +0000, kevin lyda mentioned:
> > > any news on adsl or sdsl?
> > 
> >  Yeah. Eircom have said they've no intention of shipping it to residential
> > customers, and that it'll be dead expensive for commerical customers.
> 
> Not sure where you got that but Eircom have a requirement to give Bitstream
> ADSL access to OLOs like Esat etc. on April 1st (they also had a requirement
> to let OLOs commence trials on Jan 15th - trials have yet to commence)
> 
> As far as I know, Eircom's retails wing has fairly firm plans to launch on
> April 1st or thereabouts, they have been running a "pre-commercial pilot"
> for ages which gives net access and TV. The TV won't be part of their
> upcoming package - unless they get nasty and allow their retail arm to use
> >2MB but restricting all OLOs to 2MB max. I presume this would be illegal
> but ...
> 
> Esat Fusion and Business are determined to launch on April 1st, the only
> thing that would stop them is if Eircom don't meet the ODTR's mandate. If
> this happens, Eircom should get slapped about by the ODTR, although I think
> the ODTR doesn't even have much of a bark, never mind a bite.
> 
> Fergal
> 
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