Irish crying out for broadband

IRISH INTERNET users "are crying out for broadband" a report from Ireland Offline said today.

It surveyed 1390 Internet users from every county in association with the telcos and government bodies.

It seems the tiger economy is still in the dial up doldrums and that's frustrating a heap of people.

The data shows that the poor folk on dial up "are completely frustrated" at not being able to move broadband.

Said chairman John Timmins: "More than any other factor, the lack of availability of broadband is the prime reason why Ireland is still a nation of dialup users isolated from the rest of broadband Europe."

Further, 51 per cent of these folk on dialup don't have a flat rate Internet product and 56 per cent on flatrate packages exceeded their monthly allowance.

The average bill for the dialuppers is a staggering €34.20.

Ireland Offline called on the government to print an updated flatrate directive. Timmons warned that the country looked like it was going to be a dialup nation until 2010.

Maybe WiMAX would be a good idea. µ