Broadband Shambles
2 comments February 18th, 2008
Given that I’m planning on moving down the county from Dublin next year broadband services become very important. The whole broadband situation outside of the main urban centres is a mess and there’s no hope of the current government and minister Lying Eamon Ryan fixing it. Senator Shane Ross is putting forward a Broadband Infrastructure Bill which might help, if it were accepted and there seems to be moves to revive the Ireland-Offline lobby group to put some pressure on the people in charge.
Wireless broadband is available in a lot of places mostly thanks to Digiweb although you need to be in line of sight of a station and within a certain distance which can be a bit difficult in rural areas.
The satellite broadband is a laughable option, so laughable that I don’t think you can call it broadband, certainly not when it’s realisitcally only one way service, although at least there’s plenty of companies out there providing it and offering some relief to dial up sufferers.
