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Life in the Fast Lane ONE of the Very First Community Broadband Schemes Is About to Be Switched on in Knockmore, Co Mayo 10 Digital Ireland March 2004 Broadband Ireland: Service providers BROADBAND BRIEFS No knocking Knockmore Life in the fast lane ONE of the very first community broadband schemes is about to be switched on in Knockmore, Co Mayo. The Knockmore initiative has set up a Community Network Society to bring affordable broadband By Leslie Faughnan broadband club had just biggest challenge to take up. access to the community on a non-profit basis. “We should be up 13,000 members. This year The blunt fact is that most and running in a few weeks with the first 30 or so households BROADBAND may be the the take-up speed has begun Irish business people have dominant technology topic of to accelerate at last with Ahern never personally experienced participating,” says chairman Paul Cunnane. Initial backhaul for the the day, but it’s still a fairly pointing out that there has the performance and advant- internet connection is expected to be based on a 2Mbps ADSL exclusive club that only passed been a 33pc weekly increase ages of always-on broadband. connection in Ballina relayed by wireless to the first node in the the 40,000-member mark a since broadband packages of It is confused with the simpler Knockmore region. Unlike broadcast wireless networking, needing at € few weeks ago. According to 40 per month were notions of ‘making internet least one high mast in line of sight, this project is based on a mesh introduced. Prices are contin- performance faster’ and the Minister for Commun- system where each access point is also a repeater linking to the next ications, Marine and Natural uing to inch downwards as perhaps unnecessarily fancy Resources, Dermot Ahern TD, resellers (and re-branders) of stuff such as multimedia and in a line of sight chain — neighbour passes on the signals to Ireland had a grand total of the Eircom service enter the streaming video. Remote neighbour, in effect. 42,000 broadband customers market that should lead to access from anywhere using as of 8 March last. even greater take up. secure virtual private network Membership of the club There is also an emerging technology, one of the single A case for local cable ranges from enlightened self- but distinct possibility that most valuable applications, is employed and residential ADSL as we now have it may hardly appreciated at all. “We CROSSAN Cable in Longford and Casey Cablevision in Dungarvan users all the way up to the have missed the boat — or at have not really got the have enthusiastically entered the cable broadband market and are mighty multinationals, but least have been overtaken to a broadband story across,” con- targeting local business and home users. “We have over 3,000 cable with notoriously low take up fair degree by other technolo- cedes Esat BT’s Ray Tobin, subscribers in the area,” says Brian Crossan. “We already have over by small to medium-sized gies, just as ISDN barely had key accounts manager. “And 100 broadband customers, both business and home, even though time to become a standard there certainly has not been enterprises still. The minister we are not officially launching the service until the end of the said there had been a dramatic and universally available enough competition to help and sustained take up of service before DSL technology the information process month.” Crossan is offering a two-way service with 1Mbps broadband and flat-rate began to hit the headlines. along. Now we are even seeing downstream for just €39.90 a month to homes and €99 excluding services within the past six Wireless services, encouraged another problem because of Vat for business, both with maximum 20:1 contention. In months “following his initia- by the growth of Wi-Fi lack of education — SMEs Dungarvan, Casey Cablevision has been offering its Cablesurf.com tives in driving down prices hotspots, offer similar services opting for consumer ADSL broadband product for some years, now priced at €40 for home and rates to ADSL but with products and then being and promoting competition”. users and €90 for business with fixed internet protocol addresses Many will argue that the greater flexibility and speed of disappointed because the credit should be more widely installation. performance is not what they and other services. What is really impressive is that Cablesurf is shared but it is undoubtedly The 19 metropolitan area expected.” offering speeds of up to 4Mbps. true that the Government has networks around the country, Esat BT is of course a full added its weight to the ESB Telecoms entry as an spectrum telco, so its broad- Commission for Communi- infrastructure provider and so Unbundling a local telephone exchange and making ready for ADSL. (Picture courtesy of BT band products start up in the Fastest flats in Ireland on mean that wireless carrier level stratosphere and cations Regulation’s pressure and VisualMedia) A BROADBAND communications service has been created exclusively on Eircom to reduce its rates broadband offers entrepre- descend through fibre con- to other operators so that the neurial opportunities at local nectivity and leased lines to for the residents of the 330 apartments at Custom House Harbour. market could be stirred up. level. Backhaul internet access DSL technology and fixed The opportunity was spotted by Allan Brennan of Wireless Projects In truth the business is then easily and competitively ‘In truth the business market for broadband wireless, which Tobin believes that made the pitch to the owners last year. These apartments are market for broadband has available through the fibre will quickly attain a great deal mostly for renting and the addition of the fastest residential internet been surprisingly sluggish, rings. In this context the has been surprisingly sluggish, with all of importance in the Irish access in Ireland has undoubtedly added to the market attraction of with all telecoms companies €65m the Government is market. “We are seriously the properties. Invisible Access is the brand for a secure wireless conceding that they had spending on fibre infrastruc- telecoms companies conceding that they had pursuing the partnership overestimated the pent-up ture as part of the National route, talking to communities broadband service launched earlier this month that gives users a demand that would be Development Plan is an overestimated the pent-up demand that would and local commercial 4Mbps internet connection for an astonishing price of just €99 released by the initial and investment that cannot but interests — including Cham- excluding Vat annually. The five blocks are served by over 40 wireless much-delayed rollout of DSL have a major economic bers of Commerce — so that access points and each apartment has what is technically a virtual multiplier effect on business be released by the initial and much-delayed we can provide the technology services in 2002. The industry private network connection over Wi-Fi to the base. consensus appears to be that — starting with the ICT sector and internet backhaul for the clear understanding of the itself at regional level. rollout of DSL’ local networks.” He is inclined daily value of broadband — so A good example of some of to believe that this approach € visible and obvious to larger these points is business ISP sized enterprises (SMEs). Its of our customers have been Dublin Area in April and a is more realistic than the 25m for group broadband organisations and multina- Netsource, the No. 3 provider services are also sold through opting for the entry-level presence in Cork within a Eircom ‘trigger programme’, EARLIER this month Communications Minister Dermot Ahern TD tionals — simply had not pen- of DSL after the Eircom and the established IT resellers product — they understand further few weeks,” Louise which invites smaller com- announced a €25m three-year scheme to help deliver high-speed Esat BT. A current level of channel, which marketing from the beginning what their McKeown says, adding that munities to register an inter- etrated the lower end of the internet into smaller communities – only communities under business market. 2,000 business subscribers manager Louise McKeown own likely needs are,” she says. the whole strategy is to offer est in broadband: “Offering The price barrier was a gives it a firm foothold, driven believes is a huge strength It is telling that Netsource has broadband internet access broadband to communities 1,500 population are eligible and there is no minimum threshold. serious impediment to experi- by the lowest rates in the because the value of entered the wireless broad- though the customers’ under 1,500 is fine in theory The scheme offers 55pc capital funding, the maximum allowed ment and only the most tech- market and a two-month broadband is convincingly band market: “We expect to channel of choice. but with trigger levels of 300 under EU rules, with half of any grant payable when a scheme is savvy consumers were wiling rolling contract that takes any explained and demonstrated have our 2Mbps corporate The whole question of or more it is a bit disingenu- ‘commercially’ launched and the balance when minimum to pay the premium for the uncertainty out of the deci- at the customers’ local level. wireless service available market education is belatedly ous because that is often subscriber targets are met. service. Six months ago the sion for small to medium- “That is why just about 45pc throughout the Greater being recognised as the simply unrealistic.” Making the right internet connection A map of Esat BT’s network Infrastructure is €199, self-installation is €99. All for business and residential users. Price limits, user number or other constraints. 2048/128Kbps — €549. In all cases the consumer prices include Vat.
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