eircom, Ireland’s largest telecommunications provider, has launched a nationwide competition to identify the next Fibre To The Home rural trial community. The move follows on from the first successful trial site in Belcarra, County Mayo, which has seen business and residents of this rural community enjoy the enormous economic, educational and social benefits of having […]
Eircom has announced plans to implement a number of price changes for residential and business customers. The changes will be reflected in customer bills from mid April onwards and the company is notifying all impacted customers in writing. The changes are across three main areas, including monthly subscription fees for bundles, call set up fees and […]
It doesn’t show up on the main page, but a Google crawl of the Eircom Spiders site reveals that it has been hacked and is being used to sell Viagra and other prescription drugs. Dublin web expert Antonie Geerts was looking for the shortlists for the Awards this evening; he was surprised to see a Google results page offering […]
The 2013 Eircom Spiders will be held on November 28th in Dublin’s Convention Centre – hopefully this year they won’t coincide with the Irish Web Awards! Nominations are now open, though unlike many of the other Irish Internet industry awards, the Spiders expect you to pay €150 per nomination. (You can get a 25% discount […]
Irish ISP Magnet has managed to retain its number 1 position on Netflix’s ISP index for the 4th successive month. UPC dropped 3 place this month, with Digiweb, Eircom and Vodafone rising up the table. Full details on the Netflix site. Related articles Netflix Publish Latest ISP Index (technology.ie) Magnet pips Eircom to post (independent.ie)
With “awards season” in full swing there’s been a couple of interesting developments in the last 24 hours. First off, Damien Mulley’s Irish Web Awards have reported their biggest number of entries to date. According to a report in the Business Post there have been over 600 entries so far. Meanwhile the Eircom Spiders have […]
The Irish Data Protection Commissioner is appealing a case to the Irish Supreme Court. The case involves Irish ISP Eircom’s out of court agreement with the music industry to implement a “three strikes” rule or “graduated response” to alleged copyright infringers. The Irish Times has full coverage of this latest chapter in the IRMA vs […]
