[09.06.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Eircom is not discriminating against customers of other telecoms providers when it comes to repairing repeat faults, a ComReg investigation has found.
Eircom is required by law not to discriminate against Other Authorised Operators (OAOs) with regard to interconnection.
The first phase of ComReg’s investigation compared Eircom’s performance in repairing […]

[06.06.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Four IBM workers in Dublin are to be awarded for their contribution to the development of a community project that uses open source software to ensure older people and vulnerable members of the public in 20 counties across Ireland receive a good neighbour service.
Later today, the Minister for […]

[04.06.2008 first posted on silicon republic]http://www.laois.ie/ has singed a deal with Magnet which will see the council’s broadband connectivity increase from 2Mbps to 50Mbps.
Magnet will use the Portlaoise metropolitan area network (MAN) to deliver the 50Mbps connection.
The increased speed will facilitate the provision of a large number of new online services to the […]

[04.06.2008 first posted on silicon republic]The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed it is reviewing its push email for mobile policy after it emerged in recent days that officials were being told not to use devices like BlackBerrys for fear of data leakage.
In the aftermath of recent data security scandals over missing laptops […]

[29.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]A ponderously slow decision by the Irish Government to finally embrace a 21st-century technology called TETRA (terrestrial trunk radio) to support Ireland’s underequipped emergency services has finally been made.
A consortium including Eircom, Motorola and Sigma Wireless has been awarded an eight-year, ‘build-own-operate’ nationwide contract.
TETRA is a technology that […]

[28.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Europe is in danger of experiencing a ‘digital 9/11′ if problems in national security approaches are not addressed, a European IT security organisation has warned.
ENISA, the EU Agency for European Network and Information Security, outlined some of the dangers posed by cyber attacks, spam and social networking misuse […]

[26.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]The European Commission is to fund a pilot project to integrate e-procurement systems across Europe.
The Commission will co-finance the project, which is driven by eight European countries, that will create the conditions to link existing national electronic public procurement (e-procurement) systems. Simplifying cross-border procurement will generate savings on […]

[26.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Mobile calls made from airplanes will not be subject to the Eurotariff Regulations, meaning higher costs for using a mobile while in flying, ComReg has confirmed.
Publishing its Response to the Consultation on Mobile Communications aboard Aircraft (MCA), ComReg said it had received clarification from the European Commission that […]

[24.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]The Government is unlikely to provide Eircom with the €150m it has requested to fund a €500m plan to upgrade Ireland’s fibre infrastructure. Communications Minister Eamon Ryan TD said funding one infrastructure over another would send out the wrong signal to investors in other platforms.
Eircom has submitted […]

[23.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Up-and-coming Irish telecoms provider Complete Telecom has introduced a new 10Gbps internet service that is available to 95pc of corporate players across Ireland.
The new service, which the company says is 10,000 times faster than basic broadband packages, is available now and wasn’t delivered by waiting on government grants.
In […]