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AN ESTIMATED 65 per cent of homes in Ireland have broadband, whether it be fixed or mobile.
The Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) quarterly report finds that fixed broadband is on the increase, but that both fixed and mobile subscriptions increased 0.7 per cent compared to the same period last year.
Broadband speeds
The report found that 37.5 per cent of all fixed broadband subscriptions were equal or greater than 10 Mbps up 7.4 per cent from 30.1 per cent since the last quarter.
Fixed broadband subscriptions equal to or greater than 30 Mbps accounted for 29.9 per cent up from 19.6 per cent in the second quarter last year.
The report also found that within the mobile sector, voice and SMS revenues are decreasing while mobile data revenues are increasing.
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Just like to say my beautiful daughter was born this morning.. Her name is sarah
Congrats Dave
So what, try facebook, someone there might pretend to care
Congrats, Dave.
@ GoGo99 – 24 green thumbs indicate people on here care. So what’s your point?
No point, just my opinion is “who cares?”. It’s bad enough reading stuff on facebook but now someone’s telling strangers on a news story of his new baby girl. I find it pathetic, attention seeking, trolling and annoying.
As for the green/red thumbs, I couldn’t care less about them, they are akin to an equally sad facebook “like”.
Congrats Dave
@GoGo99
Congrats on having an opinion … Now your not excluded
*you’re
Thanks. Great comment
“I couldn’t care less”
Not replying at all would be caring less.
GoGo99
Why such a sad face .,…. Someone in the doghouse ?
Firstly, you’re misquoting me, that was in reference to coloured thumbs if you’d like to read again maybe.
Secondly, I can comment on something I find ridiculous if I want.
That’s not really my face
Prove how much you don’t care by typing another reply! That’ll show them!
GoGo99
Does the term nice to be nice have a place in your sad Mellon collie world :(
Nice try idiot, but I can argue with you all day and still not give two shits about Daves baby!
Mellon collie? New breed of dog?… now we’re really off topic.
“Idiot”? Now you’re getting angry & defensive; another sure sign you don’t care at all. Keep ‘em coming – show us how much you don’t care!!
It’s only been 1 hour since your first reply – a sure sign of being too cool to give a damn.
I’d say Dave & his baby are loving all this attention you’re giving them! You’ve been hanging around this post longer than any of us!
Us? Your gang or something! Not angry or defensive, just find you a bit of an idiot
GoGo99
Did she dump you for being soooo sad and that’s why your own here looking for easy targets to attack like a newborn baby you appear to be getting angry now does the news of daves baby upset you why does it upset you
So
Riiiiight, english please! Something about picking on a newborn!!!
Congratulations, Dave! Hope mum and baby are doing well
Really??!!
@sean:gogo099 I care! and I usually don’t care for brief and pithy posts….
Tgat was for gogo’s sayingvthat wasn’t his real face.
Which they pay for & pay tax on. Braodcasting charge!….NO CHANCE…..this is the last slap across the face to the public. You cannot force people to pay for a service in their homes THEY DO NOT WANT!!!….This will be the end of FG. Speak to anyone about it. They say NO WAY they are being forced to pay for entertainment they DO NOT WANT. RTE sort your own house out and use the extotinate advertising rates you charge & reduce your wage bill & stop the jobs for the girls & boys which has poisend this country for decades.
If I don’t want to look at the RTE services on my internet that I pay for, can they not just exclude my IP address from access to it?
Would that not just be the simplest solution?
The cost in implementing this would be minimal
Steven that would not be possible unfortunately. It is not “your” IP address, you get a leased address from a pool of addresses owned by the ISP every time your router connects.
Also, the cost of implementing and maintaining a blacklist or whitelist would probably end up more expensive than just allowing everyone access to it from addresses in Ireland.
It even simpler to implement pay on demand. If you want it pay for it if not they don’t. Pat Rabbit has forgotten that the people who elected him.
and its not just the rubbish speeds in Ireland we receive…its also the astronomical costs we pay here
Eircom – €45 Euro a month for up to 50Mb Speed
https://secure.eircom.net/fibre/
Comparison in the UK
http://store.virginmedia.com/broadband/compare-broadband/60mb.html
Virgin – £20 for up to 60Mb
Thats just about DOUBLE the price..
RIP OFF Ireland is alive and well….especially where broadband and telecoms in Ireland is concerned !!!
€40 for Sky Broadband in Ireland, the same package is £7.50 in UK. Says it all really
Greater than 10 Mbps?
Lucky you.
On a good day I might get 1 Mbps.
Let’s put a new term on Ireland’s antiquated technology.
FRAUDBAND.
Sky broadband in the Uk is not 7.50. You have to pay line rental on top of that and it’s more expensive if you don’t have Sky TV. Not to mention that ADSL In the Uk supports lower speeds than in Ireland. Uk/Ireland comparisons are misleading at best.
Paul your talking complete rubbish when you say “Uk supports lower speeds than in Ireland”
Yes you are correct, sky unlimited is £22 which is around €26. If you think its worth an extra €24 a month your smoking crack !
Also Eircoms is actually 50 quid a month, i quoted the 30Gb a month allownace
Sky Broadband unlimited is €10 in Ireland, and there basic service is free. Line rental is €30 and that goes to eircom for the pleasure of renting their infrastructure. Plus at the moment you can get a deal for 6 months half price line rental and BB…
their basic service is free, not there. Bad grammar!
Mines crap!!
This statistic is irrelevant since speeds in most of the country are so unbelievably bad! We are lagging way behind other eu countries in this regard.
I’ll reply to this as soon as its finished downloading
They have the internet on computers now?
3G internet services are NOT Broadband, the problem is Comreg count 3G service as broadband service when its not in comparison to ADSL Broadband or Cable.
Its OK for pple in big towns and city getting 10mb plus but the pple in the country side suffer with crappy speeds of less than 3mb mine does clock at 1.9mb and at times I’d b better going back to dial up..its a joke I’ve seen the plans for fibre roll out .. And the have no intention of bringing it out to the countryside unless u live near Dublin or surrounding areas..ftc..
Have you tried a 3G dongle? It might be faster if there’s a good signal in your area. Just have a look at your phone to see how strong it is.
3g is so unreliable.. N a waste of time..lag is dire..speeds drop in n out..n not really broadband…we just live in a country that is going backward..
So almost half of all house holds have not also!
Far more important!
*crappy broadband
And yet Eircoms national coverage is absolutely Rubbish, buffering buffering.
Well since I got upc’s horizon box its been crap.
Was thinking of getting horizon. .is it shit?
It’s a great tele box but an appalling router. If you ask they will let you keep your existing Internet modem and just use it for the TV.
Do you get a better connection if its hooked up through a different router!?!
I don’t.
10 out of 8 people don’t understand statistics.
I have a 3 wifi thingy. €21 a month for 15gb download limit. Did a speed test the other day. Upload speed 0.17 and download speed 0.01. Not exactly broadband. Probably not even dial up.
Better heading would be “Over 60% of Broadband is at appallingly low standard”
I pay €56 for “up to 3MB” which means at very best 1.6MB.
We are a joke and there is not a snowballs hope in hell that it will improve in the near to distant future ( unless you live in a large urban area)
“It works 60% of the time, every time”
Eircom is shite I’m getting at best 1.3 mb on a good day. Digi web here I come ya bastards
I pay my TV license and also pay for Sky basic package. I have a spare box in the bedroom but can’t get RTE on it. Surely RTE should be on my spare box.
You have a spare box in your bedroom?
Used to have multi-room but cancelled it cause my Bank Manager said I needed to tighten my belt lol
Is his survay reporting advertised speeds or actual speeds? I reluctantly pay €60 a month for 7mbs but on average only get about 2.5mbs.
In the north, I pay £26 for 60mbs+ service and that’s not particularly good value worldwide. Everyone in the south is being ripped off for everything. Time to burn your bras and your local FG office, comrades!
We live between two fibre enabled towns, but we are a little too far from the exchange, so we get 3-4mb at best.. On occasion the 3G on my 3 phone is faster and the reception here isn’t great.. The upload speeds on the 3G signal are way faster..
Internet access is a joke in the south. A. It’s a rip off and b. even in well connected areas, it’s a pipe service. The unfortunate conclusion is that in a small country, large infrastructure projects can only be done properly by the state
17mb here in the sticks. €44.50 per month from Vodafone Home phone and broadband. Good service.
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