[ILUG] Re: Broadband providers

[Michael Watterson]

Brendan Minish wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 15:48 +0100, paul at clubi.ie wrote:
>
>   
>> I.e. this advantage you speak of is not supposed to exist, and 
>> there's a regulator who's supposed to monitor that. At least in 
>> Ireland and the UK.
>>     
>
> here in Ireland the real issue in the telecomms industry is regulatory
> failure, Comreg are about as useless as a chocolate teapot and no amount
> of 'tweaking' the penalties available to them at this stage will fix
> this  
>
> .brendan 
>
>   

Unfortunately everyone else depends too much on Comreg's good will to 
public criticise.

I've personally been waiting since April for something and April the 
year before for something else.

However eircom don't have a monopoly on Fibre, Cable or Wireless. But 
with Dept almost quadrupled since last carpet baggers and a 3G Network 
to roll out don't be expecting astounding copper infrastructure investment.

-- 
Mike