While Eircom remains the most popular provider of internet services to Irish households, its share of the market has plummeted, new figures show. The latest Trends Series Survey into telecoms services usage in Ireland from ComReg indicates that Eircom’s share of the home internet market declined in 2007 while BT Ireland, Irish Broadband, Perlico and [...]
On Thursday, Eircom announced plans to “significantly increase broadband speeds” for customers nationwide, through a combination of upgrades and new products.
The announcement coincides with the news that the pricing schedule for Eircom’s wholesale bitstream products has been updated meaning that the telco’s rivals will also be able to offer faster broadband services at lower [...]
The percentage of Irish households with broadband internet access has increased significantly in the past year, but still lags behind the European average. That’s according to new figures contained in the Eurostat report ‘Internet access and e-skills in the EU27 in 2007′. According to the document, 31 percent of Irish homes have broadband access in [...]
Digiweb today launched new business packages offering up to 10Mbps broadband. The new packages follow on from heavy investment by the broadband company into its business services infrastructure. As well as the new packages, Digiweb has increased throughput on the new Metro business packages and increased traffic quotas. The Metro Business [...]
Eircom says it has broadband-enabled 19 additional telecoms exchanges around Ireland, making it possible for an additional 12,000 people to subscribe to broadband. The company says it will enable a total of 900 exchanges across Ireland in the next two years, meaning that 96pc of working telephone lines in the country will eventually [...]
Almost 84,000 new broadband subscriptions were added during the first quarter of 2007, to bring the total number of high-speed internet users in Ireland to 602,000, according to ComReg’s latest quarterly report.It also appears that for the first time narrowband subscriptions have been outnumbered by new broadband subscriptions. Broadband now accounts for 58 percent of [...]
