Communications Companies of the Republic of Ireland - Smart Telecom, Telefonica O2 Ireland, an Post, Vodafone Ireland, Tesco Mobile (Paperback)

Chapters: Smart Telecom, Telefonica O2 Ireland, an Post, Vodafone Ireland, Tesco Mobile, Imagine Communications. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Smart Telecom (AIM: SMR) is an Irish telecom operator that started as a phone card seller. It is also the third largest provider of cost-sensitive telecom services sector in Ireland, behind the incumbent operator Eircom and BT Ireland. It currently has an estimated 50,000 land-line customers and 18,000 broadband subscribers. It lost 20,000 land-line customers who reverted to Eircom in 2006. Smart operates several services: Backbone services are available to users in parts of Dublin, Cork, Dundalk, Limerick, Letterkenny, Galway, Sligo, Waterford, Wexford, Portlaoise, Mullingar, Carlow, Cavan, Drogheda, Killarney, Tralee and Clonmel. At the end of Q 1, 2006 there were 322,000 broadband subscribers in Ireland, 35% of internet subscription. Broadband accounted for 19% of all internet subscriptions. Smart are probably most widely known for its residential broadband services, which launched in early 2005. The initial offering of fast broadband (for the time), which included completely free telephone line rental was considered revolutionary at the time and attracted huge numbers of customers interested in signing up to their service. Smart provides their broadband internet services through a process known as Local Loop Unbundling (LLU), whereby a telecoms company, for an agreed monthly fee to Eircom, the owner of the line, can take complete control of the copper cable running from the customer premises to the local exchange. Smart installs its own equipment in exchanges (a process which has proved to be slow and cumbersome and has caused massive delays in their rollout plan, with only a handful of exchanges c...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=22117