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2. WHO AM I?
• Sole trader
• Operating from home in Rathmines,
Dublin 6
• Searching for good quality, reliable
broadband provider for use in the
business

3. WHAT IS BROADBAND?
The Commission for Communications
Regulation defines broadband as…
“A service or connection allowing a considerable
amount of information to be conveyed, such as
television pictures. Generally defined as a bandwidth >
2Mbit/s although ComReg collects data based on the
European Commission’s base of 144kb upstream. The
capability to integrate any type of communications
signals (voice, data, image or multimedia) and carry
them over a single broadband channel of 150-mbps
and above, 4k regardless of their content.”

4. HOW WE RECEIVE BROADBAND
• DSL
• Fibre Optic
• Cable
• Satellite
• Mobile

5. BROADBAND PROVIDERS IN RATHMINES
• Imagine WiMax
• UPC
• Eircom
• Vodafone
• Digiweb
• onwave

6. COMPARISON
Eirco UPC Imagine Vodafon Digiweb Onwave
Business Breeze DSL eight
m Fibre Power
e Advance and
Business Performance
Talk
Lite Plus Plus
Speed 3Mb 30Mb 4Mb 21.6Mb 3Mb 8Mb
Upstream 384kb 3MB 4MB - 384kb 2Mb
Price p/m €24.79 €49 €45.27 €20.32 €49.95 €39.95
Connectio None None €150 €19.99 None €229
n Cost
Type DSL Cable Wireless Mobile DSL Satellite
Comment Average Fast, Expensive Slow, Average Expensive
effective connection unreliable
s cost

7. BEST FOR MY COMPANY?
UPC Business Fibre Power
• High speed
• Medium monthly cost
• No connection fee
• Fibre Optic

8. REFERENCES
• Alexander Eliot. 2012. What is Cable Broadband Internet | Tech Tips. [ONLINE] Available at:
http://techtips.salon.com/cable-broadband-internet-20711.html. [Accessed 16 October 12].
• Commission for Communications Regulation. 2012. Irish Communications Market - Quarterly Key Data. [ONLINE]
Available at: http://www.comreg.ie/_fileupload/publications/ComReg0971a.pdf. [Accessed 16 October 12].
• Curt Franklin. 2012. How Stuff Works - How DSL Works. [ONLINE] Available at:
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/dsl.htm. [Accessed 16 October 12].
• Digiweb. 2012. Digiweb Business - Business DSL Broadband from Digiweb. [ONLINE] Available at:
http://www.digiweb.ie/business/products/connectivity/broadband/dsl/index.html. [Accessed 16 October 12].
• Eircom. 2012. Up to 3 Mb broadband from eircom. [ONLINE] Available at:
http://business.eircom.net/broadband/products/bb/6/. [Accessed 16 October 12].
• Imagine. 2012. Imagine Wireless Broadband. [ONLINE] Available at:
http://www.imaginebusiness.ie/broadband/broadband_wireless.php. [Accessed 16 October 12].
• onwave. 2012. Best Broadband Service Provider. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.onwave.ie/packages/broadband.
[Accessed 16 October 12].
• onwave. 2012. Broadband Deal. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.onwave.ie/how_it_works. [Accessed 16 October
12]
• Summer Murawski. 2012. What is Fibre Optic Broadband?. [ONLINE] Available at:
http://www.simplifydigital.co.uk/features/what-is-fibre-optic-broadband/. [Accessed 16 October 12].
• UPC. 2012. UPC Business - SME Products. [ONLINE] Available at:
http://business.upc.ie/products/small_to_medium_enterprises/. [Accessed 16 October 12].
• Vodafone. 2012. MBB - business - USB Stick Modem K4605. [ONLINE] Available at:
http://www.vodafone.ie/businessbroadband/mobile/devices/k4605/. [Accessed 16 October 12].