Is this the advent of 'real' broadband in the country? Here's today's press release:
"UPC, parent company of cable operators Chorus ntl, has today announced that it is introducing radically higher broadband speeds of 20Mb for Irish customers. This will be the fastest and best value broadband service available in the Irish marketplace and will propel Ireland from 25th to 10th place on the OECD broadband speed league.
"UPC will roll out the new 20Mb broadband service from July 1 to over 422,000 broadband enabled homes in areas such as Dublin, Galway, Waterford, Limerick, Cork and all other major cabled towns. The new 20Mb broadband service has been introduced by UPC to meet the increasing demand for higher speeds to support on-line applications such as video streaming and the sharing of multimedia files such as photos, films and games.
"UPC is offering 20Mb broadband for just €40 a month, making it the best value offering in Ireland. This is 8Mb quicker and substantially cheaper than the nearest equivalent service provided by Eircom, who can currently only offer a top speed of 12Mb to business customers for the significant sum of €204.49 per month.
"From July, all new UPC customers who sign up for our €40 service will receive a market leading downstream of 20Mb. Customers who sign up for our €30 product will get 10Mb and for €20 will get 3Mb. Our commitment to deliver real broadband isn't just about downstream speed. Our upstream for the 20Mb tier will be 1.5Mb and we are removing our download caps on both the 10Mb and 20Mb services. This gives the improved UPC broadband offering clear advantages right across the board."
Comments? Views?
'we are removing our download caps on both the 10Mb and 20Mb services'
whoa. that's pretty significant. The question is -- _where_ is this available?
here's a boards.ie thread about it:
http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055322433
Posted by: | June 26, 2008 at 03:47 PM