[ILUG] Re: Broadband providers

[Justin Mason]

paul at clubi.ie writes:
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Justin Mason wrote:
> 
> > Ah -- Magnet *Business*?  that would be a different kettle of fish. 
> > If you're talking about business-oriented products, and are willing 
> > to pay those prices, you can indeed get a product that doesn't 
> > involve Eircom.
> 
> Most of Magnet Business is the old Netsource business, no? Which is 
> reselling Eircom. I'm a MagnetBusiness customer and it's most 
> definitely delivered via Eircom anyway..

They also sell unbundled ADSL these days.
http://www.magnetbusiness.ie/support/salesqa.shtml :

  'How difficult is it to connect?

  Magnet Business provides broadband service over a standard telephone
  line. The customer nominates a telephone line for Magnet to unbundled.
  The unbundling process takes on average three weeks. If a telephone line
  is not available Magnet will request a new telephone line for the
  delivery of service.'

Colin Whittaker has been very open with data about Magnet's LLU progress;
there's a good recent presentation at
http://www.uknof.org.uk/uknof7/Whittaker-LLU.pdf and a fair bit more info
blogged at http://colin.netech.ie/tag/magnet too.

--j.

> To back up Lisa's point: Getting your customer service from someone 
> else (sane) who deals with Eircom regularly and in-bulk (e.g. 
> Netsource^WMagnet), is low-pain (IME).
> 
> regards,
> -- 
> Paul Jakma	paul at clubi.ie	paul at jakma.org	Key ID: 64A2FF6A
> Fortune:
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