{"id":9361,"date":"2009-01-23T12:29:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9361"},"modified":"2009-01-23T12:29:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"3-to-bring-100-broadband-coverage-to-ireland-allegedly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9361","title":{"rendered":"3 To Bring 100% Broadband Coverage To Ireland – Allegedly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late last year we heard that communications company 3 had won a government contract to provide broadband coverage to the remaining 30% of the country that currently has no coverage.\u00a0 I just read on SiliconRepublic<\/a> that this will be done using mobile broadband.\u00a0 Hmm, that’s interesting.\u00a0 I hope the coverage is better than what I get at my house.\u00a0 I’m slap bang in between two antennas and I have almost no 3G coverage.\u00a0 In fact, I have to stand beside one window to get a mobile phone signal.\u00a0 It’s not like I live in the middle of a national park either.\u00a0 I’m in a major commuter town, one mile from a motorway.\u00a0 I had to get rid of my 3G phone when I moved here because it kept dropping phone calls.\u00a0 That’s why I own a "brick".\n<\/p>\n

We have this map to see where has coverage now (red) and where doesn’t (green).\n<\/p>\n

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This is funny.\u00a0 My family home is in a red area.\u00a0 I know for a fact that no house in that area has coverage now via land line because it’s 9KM from the nearest enabled exchange.\u00a0 Mobile broadband is so slow that it takes around 20 seconds for Google to open.\n<\/p>\n

So, I’m now to take it that the Irish government is going to spend \u20ac220million on bringing bad broadband to the country.\u00a0 FANTASTIC!\u00a0 And people wonder why I say we shouldn’t allow our government anywhere near technology?\n<\/p>\n

EDIT:\n<\/p>\n

The lack of bandwidth isn’t down to congestion either.\u00a0 At my house I know I’ve a problem because I’ve asked the phone companies.\u00a0 At my home area … well … there aren’t too many old farmers surfing the net if you know what I mean.\n<\/p>\n

I think I smell another integrated Dublin ticketing system or PPARS in the works. Why the hell is our government still allowed to get involved in technology?\u00a0 BTW, you might want to look into who and more importantly, who did not get involved in the tender process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Late last year we heard that communications company 3 had won a government contract to provide broadband coverage to the remaining 30% of the country that currently has no coverage.\u00a0 I just read on SiliconRepublic that this will be done using mobile broadband.\u00a0 Hmm, that’s interesting.\u00a0 I hope the coverage is better than what I … Continue reading “3 To Bring 100% Broadband Coverage To Ireland – Allegedly”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t