Photek wrote:1gb broadband has just landed in drogheda (at no additional cost if you on fibre), which is 5mins up the road from me, Irish government want a national average of 2gb in 5 years with 5gb in the city!
Having the worlds technological company's certainly has its ups as we're already in top 10 countries in the world for average BBspeed. I've 90 down and 20 up myself.
I'm starting to loathe the way people use average speed as evidence of general broadband access improving and the lazy journalism (hate that term but it's appropriate here) that accompanies the release of these figures. It's fantastic for those who are in an area well served by the likes of UPC and Eircom but for those in more rural areas all it does it highlight the digital divide is getting wider. Eircoms Efibre map is a pack of lies and they never get called out on it. The coverage area they try to present on the map is 100% bollocks and they know this and have produced more accurate maps for their NBP submission. On top of that the timelines presented on the maps mean nothing which has to be false advertising but they never get called out on it by Comreg. They've improved a lot as a company but they still get away with far too much.
The NBP is looking like it could finally be a sensible government backed plan to improve broadband infrastructure as it seems fairly clear that FTTH is the preferred option with the mobile operators and and WISPs not in the running. It's honestly one of the bigger reasons I reckon I'll vote for Fine Gael next year.