[ILUG] [Completely OT] ISP service

[John McCormac]

Fergal Daly wrote:
> 
> Local loop unbundling and bitstream access are two different things, LLU is
> proceeding, Eircom's reference offer was published on schedule at the start
> of the year. The fact that they were looking for astronomical amounts for
> co-lo etc was to be expected, there's plenty of haggling to go on but as
> far as I know this is chugging away and OLOs will be able to do
> line-sharing possibly within the first half of this year.

That's the problem with this picture. Eircom seems to be dragging it out
for as long as possible. The cable companies were/are about to break
into Eircom's core business and there was no guaranteed reciprocal
rights as far as I know. This would mean that the cable companies would
have access to Eircom lines and could take all the disgruntled Eircom
customers but Eircom could not poach cable customers.

Eircom/Rondo's attempt to get into pay television owes more to the
dot.bomb idiocy of the pre-crash days. I do not believe that these
people know that much about pay television or the mechanics of pay
television.

I'd like to be optimistic about something happening with either LLU or
bitstream soon but years of dealing with Eircom has left me with only
one view - that they should die screaming.

Regards...jmcc
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