Tagged: Eircom & News
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Communications industry’s credit union ESCCU deploys e-banking News
15.02.2013 E-Services and Communications Credit Union, the credit union for Ireland’s communications industry for more than 50 years and which has €170m under management, has deployed a... -
Eircom strategy: no price differential for broadband between urban and rural areas News
13.02.2013 In the wake of a controversial regulatory decision to create a Larger Exchange Area (LEA) mechanism that will enable incumbent Eircom to offer lower-priced bundles in... -
Telecoms industry bewildered as ComReg decides to split market News
12.02.2013 Ireland’s telecoms watchdog ComReg is to press ahead with a controversial wholesale decision that will divide the telecoms market into areas where a variety of price margin... -
Irish farmers urge Govt not to allow urban-rural split of telecoms market News
07.02.2013 The Irish Farmers Association (IFA) is the latest group to call for a block of proposals to create a two-tier telecoms market in Ireland. They warn that plans to allow Eircom to... -
Sky’s entry into Irish broadband market to kick off price wars News
07.02.2013 Sky this morning entered the Irish broadband market with DSL broadband and phone services starting at €30, as well as triple play unlimited broadband, phone and TV packages... -
Eircom crews to work over weekend to fix weather-related faults News
01.02.2013 Eircom crews will be working throughout the weekend to repair faults severe weather caused this past week, with Wednesday night’s lightning storms in parts of Ireland resulting... -
Eircom invests stg£2m in expansion into UK telecoms market News
01.02.2013 Eircom said this morning it has completed a stg£2m investment to expand its network into the UK. The telco is now targeting UK firms with services that include managed services... -
Eircom agrees to allow other telcos to access its fibre broadband network News
31.01.2013 Any fibre Eircom puts in the ground it will have to open up to other licensed operators. That’s the message that came from ComReg today as it ruled Eircom has significant market...Categories: Web, Networking & Telecoms, Investments, Internet, Infrastructure Management, Digital Media, Communications -
EE expands 4G broadband to nine more UK cities News
31.01.2013 Everything Everywhere - a collaboration between Orange and T-Mobile - has expanded its fourth-generation LTE network to nine more cities in the UK. -
Don’t discount copper networks to meet superfast broadband targets, EU expert says News
30.01.2013 Under ambitious targets set out under European Commissioner Neelie Kroes’ Digital Agenda for Europe strategy, by 2020 all homes and businesses will have a minimal standard of... -
ISP Airfibre invests in Dublin data centre space to boost colo services News
15.01.2013 Business-to-business ISP Airfibre has invested in spare data centre capacity from a number of data centre providers around Dublin and says it plans to acquire further rack space... -
Average broadband performance below peak expected of ISPs, Netflix warns News
23.12.2012 From this month onwards Netflix will publish monthly rankings of ISPs in the UK and Ireland based on their “actual performance” and already the survey reveals that services...Tags: Broadband Quality, Broadband Speeds, Streaming, Virgin, Everything Everywhere, O2, BT, Eircom, UPC, Netflix, ISPs -
New entrants to Irish broadband market will drive down prices, says ComReg News
02.01.2013 New entrants to Ireland’s broadband market – which is hurtling in the direction of superfast broadband and 4G services – will increase downward pressure on prices and upward... -
Newsmakers of the year: Barack Obama, Tim Cook, Michael D Higgins, John McAfee and Tupac News
31.12.2012 We recall the top newsmakers of 2012, including Presidents Barack Obama and Michael D Higgins, tech industry leaders Tim Cook and Steve Ballmer, the 3D resurrection of Tupac...Tags: McAfee, Eircom, 4G, ComReg, James Whelton, Facebook, Apple, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Barack Obama, YouTube, -
ComReg warns Eircom over wholesale obligations, threatens High Court order News
23.12.2012 Ireland’s telecoms watchdog ComReg has issued Eircom with a notice for not complying with agreed service levels to other telecoms operators. Eircom has been given five weeks to... -
The year in comms - the arrival of 4G and superfast broadband is imminent News
24.12.2012 The year 2012 has been a pivotal year in the development of the telecoms industry in Ireland as the first of the various superfast broadband services began to debut in the... -
Eircom launches Junior Spider Awards for young online innovators News
11.12.2012 Eircom is now accepting entries from primary and secondary school students for its 2013 Junior Spider Awards to showcase innovative ways they are using the internet in their...Categories: Web 2.0, Web, Social Media, Search Engines, Internet, Education, Digital Media, Design, Consumer Tech, Computers, Apps -
Record labels sue Digiweb, UPC, Imagine, Vodafone and 3 to block The Pirate Bay News
07.12.2012 Irish-based ISPs UPC, Digiweb, Imagine, Vodafone and 3 have been hit with a new legal action by big four record labels EMI, Sony, Warner and Universal it emerged this afternoon.Categories: Web, Legal, Internet, Intellectual Property, Games/Entertainment, Digital Media, Communications -
Eircom’s quad-play future: TV services to come in wake of fibre and 4G News
07.12.2012 Eircom’s new CEO Herb Hribar and its new CFO Richard Moat have revealed that Eircom is planning new TV services to compete with UPC and Sky and plans to create a ‘data... -
The technology business week: EC fines consumer tech giants, Eircom says 300k more homes and firms to get fibre News
10.12.2012 A digest of the top business technology news stories from the past week.Tags: Citrix, Sharp, Zynga, Medical technology, Exports, Eircom, LG, Philips, Samsung, European Commission