7 ways the government says it will fix broadband access in Ireland
The government’s plan to speed up and deliver broadband services has been repeatedly delayed.
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The government’s plan to speed up and deliver broadband services has been repeatedly delayed.
Some parts of the country experience broadband speeds up to 36 times slower than others.
As part of our How My Business Works series, we profile Limerick broadband provider Enet.
The new ComReg report also found that Ireland is expensive for home broadband, but relatively cheap for mobile bills.
Outages have been reported in various locations across the country.
There are apparently hundreds of thousands of security attacks every week, but few are ever reported.
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The slowest is Legan in Longford, while the fastest is Drimnagh in Dublin 12.
Castlebar, Co Mayo, is just one of 50 towns which will soon be benefitting from a super fast broadband network.
Minister for Communications Denis Naughten has claimed there is better internet connection 400,000km away than in parts of his constituency.
The decision was announced today by the minister for communications after it was agreed upon by cabinet.
Irish workers are being offered $75,000 a year to relocate.
The road to broadband has been paved with broken promises but eir believe this time could be different.
That’s a year’s worth of free telecoms for your home office from Magnet, worth €2,500.
While almost half of those with slow speeds would be willing to pay more, the majority of people in rural areas are against it.
The new Programme for Government tells a familiar tale in the story of bringing high-speed broadband to the country.
In short: it was painful.
With the National Broadband Plan being delayed until 2022, the need for high-speed internet in places like Donegal only grows
We all want better value and faster speeds but what should you keep in mind?
And you can only imagine how those still using dial up feel right about now.
The two companies aren’t being particularly clear on what or who is causing the slow streaming speeds.
Other household items that were flagged as slowing down wifi were microwave ovens, baby monitors and lamps.
The company is spending €16 million on a rebrand, including a new name and logo.
It’s all change in the phone and internet biz.
Sure, it’ll be grand when it happens.
But our peak speeds aren’t too great.
One local business owner told TheJournal.ie said that it feels like ‘missing the boat’.
Customers are being written to at the moment – but the cut-off for An Post payments happens next week.
And what they’re planning to do about it.
Eircom plans to be the biggest fibre provider in the land.
The company has slowed the long-term slide in its revenues.
However, it will be predominantly rural towns and villages that get to use it first – with Dublin omitted entirely.
The company has cut about one-third of its staff in the past two years.
Fees will be nearly €100 a year higher for some residential customers.
The new service offers unlimited 240 Mbps broadband from today.
The price increase relates to its TV services and will come into effect next month
The number of homes online is the same as last year.