Campaigning For Affordable, Unmetered And Broadband Internet Access In Ireland
IrelandOffline today congratulated ComReg on their latest announcement on Local Loop Unbundling.*
Speaking about the ComReg announcement, chairman of IrelandOffline Damien Mulley stated “This is a very positive move from ComReg and we congratulate them on their very hard work to achieve this. ComReg made large in-roads to make LLU workable in the past 12 months and the latest news is the most significant so far. This resolution is a major boost for broadband in Ireland.”
The report from ComReg now means that companies like BT Ireland can move their own customers from a resold eircom package, to a package that alternative provider fully controls and this will be done with little disruption to consumers and businesses. This enables new products with offerings such as VoIP, TV and much higher speed broadband can be offered to the public.
Mulley added “Many of the operators have been waiting for this good news for years. Now that it has happened we hope that they start to make the broadband market more competitive. The ball is now firmly in the court of the alternative providers and it is now up to them to give the public more choice and better value for money.”
*Local Loop Unbundling is the process where alternative providers put their brodband equipment into an eircom exchange and take full control of a customers line which enables them to offer any service they want. Currently the major of broadband products over a phone line are “bitstream” products, meaning that eircom controls the upload and download speeds of the products and other companies just rebadge the product.