Will Ireland’s Internet & Mobile Phone Coverage Ever Catch Up?
omahonydonnelly November 19th, 2008
Image by Danny McL via Flickr
I am sitting here fairly frustrated as it’s taking extremely (and painfully) long to upload back-ups to an online source, so I am thinking, “Will Ireland ever catch up with the rest of the modern world as far as broadband coverage, level of service and price?” Let’s throw in mobile phone coverage as well! I just got off the phone with a friend — I would have texted her instead, but she doesn’t get coverage in her own home and wouldn’t have got the message until she went to drop her kids to school in the morning.
A few years ago I was more patient thinking that we would get there in time. I went from regular analog dialup connection, to having two ISDN lines and now have wireless broadband. I’ve tried a friend’s Vodafone mobile broadband and the coverage is not good enough. I live smack in between Clonakilty and Rosscarbery, just outside the distance from each to get Eircom Broadband.
As a web designer who is uploading and downloading all the time, this is critical — not only to my own work efficiency, but also to my mission to promote the use of the internet in Ireland. So many people don’t want to bother.
So we have mediocre service, if any — and pay top prices for the ‘priviledge’! Do we need the government to get more involved? Is it just a case that there isn’t a big enough market and so the companies involved will never venture out here?
What’s your experience like?
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