Broadband Ireland 2008

jmcc wrote:

Sad that Ireland has to rely on such solutions for broadband. Every
time I see that vile Mary O'Rourke on television, I remember the
Eircom flotation and her part in it. FF sold critical communications
infrastructure. That makes them traitors in my opinion.

Regards...jmcc

What was different to that privatisation and every other national telecom flotation across Europe? They were all quite similarly executed.

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

Is it Mayo?

I ain't telling. As far as I know, the only people who know where this is are me and the people who put it there.

Interestingly, I found it along a heavily promoted walking route in this county. I was up there on Saturday on a bank holiday weekend with the sun splitting the rocks and I didn't meet any other walkers.

That might be a clue.

seinfeld wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

Is it Mayo?

I ain't telling. As far as I know, the only people who know where this is are me and the people who put it there.

Interestingly, I found it along a heavily promoted walking route in this county. I was up there on Saturday on a bank holiday weekend with the sun splitting the rocks and I didn't meet any other walkers.

That might be a clue.

Would it be the one walking route to bind them, one walking route to find them, one walking route to rule them all?

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

What was different to that privatisation and
every other national telecom flotation across Europe? They were all
quite similarly executed.

Getting the price wrong. Selling
Eircell at the bottom of the market.

Regards...jmcc

jmcc wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

What was different to that privatisation and
every other national telecom flotation across Europe? They were all
quite similarly executed.

Getting the price wrong. Selling
Eircell at the bottom of the market.

Regards...jmcc

Not putting anything in the Customer Charter about broadband was also a major cock-up. Mammy thought she was doing us a favour by commiting eircom to providing us all with *voice* services. Thanks Mammy.

jmcc wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

What was different to that privatisation and
every other national telecom flotation across Europe? They were all
quite similarly executed.

Getting the price wrong. Selling
Eircell at the bottom of the market.

Regards...jmcc

And not building in any requirement to unbundle the loop and let us have broadband.

jmcc wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

What was different to that privatisation and
every other national telecom flotation across Europe? They were all
quite similarly executed.

Getting the price wrong. Selling
Eircell at the bottom of the market.

Regards...jmcc

That I would agree with. It puzzles me to this day why Eircell was sold, it would've lifted the company back up from 2003 to 2005. It was a great brand with a good product, they didn't need to sell.

seinfeld wrote:

Why don't you blow up the reg plate?

Well I went back to the lab with this one and did a little number ...


Here is that photo magnified 12 hundred times:


And finally, magnified 40-fold again we find...

the sonofa..

Auditor, that's a cracker. That feckin' socialist scut ruins everything, doesn't he?

Classic - nearly spewed me cocoa all over the laptop when I saw that one.

Good one Audy!