September 2007 Archives

There seems to be a little debate heating up between Karlin Lillington on one side and Damien Mulley on the other.

There's also a couple of threads over on Boards.ie

The question is whether there is an issue of demand or is it a matter of supply.

Are people unable to get broadband because they don't want it, or is it a case of the ISPs not being willing to supply it?

Or is it more of a chicken / egg scenario?

Over the last few months I've been talking a lot about the mobile web in other places, however the reality in the Irish market isn't that attractive. While it may be fine to navigate the web from your phone if you're on your local wireless network ie. piggy backing off your dsl or similar, the costs of browsing the web using one of the operators maybe prohibitive.

Adrian Weckler's latest blog post mentions some of the cost involved and they are not nice!