Kevin Holler

A press release from Eircom about 2 weeks ago suggests that broadband is going to improve in the coming months. This of course would mean that those who have broadband available to them, are going to see a double in their speeds and those who do not yet have DSL available may perhaps see availability coming to them, although that is not suggested by this press release.

More than 240,000 wholesale and retail customers will now see their broadband download speeds increase. These speeds will range from 3Mb per second to up to 12Mb per second.

Customers currently availing of a 3Mb, 4Mb or a 6Mb product will see significant increases in downloads speeds which will at least double. They will be upgraded to 7.6Mb, 10Mb and 12Mb product respectively. Customers currently using a 2Mb product will be upgraded to a 3Mb product.

Now that to me sounds great. I myself have a 3mb package with eircom and have not yet noticed any changes. Nor do i expect to see any changes for another 5 months. Naturally enough the plan will go into affect in the Dublin area and will slowly be rolled out across the rest of the region.

Although we are still far behind the likes of Japan and Holland, we are working towards the an internet infastructure that a country such as Ireland should of had long ago.

Full Press Release - http://home.eircom.net/about/press/2008/…

Tags: broadband, eircom, ireland, mb, speeds, upgrade