Not so simple. Unfortunately the broadband situation in Ireland is a disaster where the network is effectively owned by a monopoly and has been badly maintained as a result of many privitisations/floatations, re-financing and resulting cash extraction. The regulator is so weak it hasn't enforced local loop unbundling to get competitors in and the wireless and satellite alternatives are only available in limited areas.
This means very many people just cannot get broadband and have to make do with poor quality dialup. According the recent OECD report there are only 372,000 broadband subscribers in Ireland (pop about 4.5m) - 25th out of 30 countries surveyed Top six - Denmark, the Netherlands, Iceland, Korea, Switzerland and Finland. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30417 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
