As many a BT Ireland (formerly ESat BT, formerly ESat) customer will tell you, they’ve had some significant billing issues for quite some time, spanning more than half a decade.
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I was glad to read, this morning, on Silicon Republic, an article that highlighted that eircom’s recent bitstream DSL speed upgrades will gloss over the much more important issue of LLU. A lot of journalists are still happy to chew eircom press releases without checking any of the “facts” (and I use that term lightly), even still. Hopefully some of the mainstream media will also pick up on this glossing.. and even more hopefully the High Court will see this case for what it is, a deliberate stalling mechanism, that’s costing the tax payer even more money.
Eircom have announced higher download speeds for their retail and wholesale ADSL/RADSL offerings. Basically:
512Kbps > 1Mbps RADSL
512Kbps > 2Mbps ADSL
1 > 3Mbps
2 > 4Mbps
There has been no mention of caps which a sane person can presume will be increased. Nor has there been any mention of upload speeds increasing (currently 128Kbps for RADSL users and 256Kbps for ADSL users).
While the download speed is welcome, I’d much prefer the upload speed to be raised, and for interleaving to be turned off. So hopefully even more intense competition (you think it’s coincidence that Smart Telecom’s announcement to enter into the DSL market with an entry 2Mb product preceded eircom’s announcement by only a few weeks?) will finally deliver some value for money. But what of the dire state of the phone line network?
For better or for worse, the campaign to get Broadband to Inagh has begun!!
So I’ve had a couple of weird issues with Skype in the past, but later revisions of the software seemed to have solved all those. All in all, it’s great and has hugely reduced my eircom phone bill (which now only has a handful of short calls every month, not 50-100 euro worth!!
This morning, however, there seems to be an outage preventing many users from logging in. Those reporting it first weren’t believed, but as more users started reporting, it became obvious something was up. Discussion is continuing on this thread
