... for progressive inhabitants of rural Ireland. Since we moved to our lovely, secluded spot in Spancelhill in 2005, I was looking for options to get it. Knowing that phone-line-based DSL would be out of the equation for a long, long time (well, short in Eircom speak), I was always checking for any development in the wireless sector. Wimax seemed to be the fashion of the age, but it never reached as far as Spancelhill and always requires "Line-of-Sight" to the mast.However, I kept checking the coverage areas of the likes of Irish Broadband, Digiweb and others, but they all confined their services to the bigger towns and cities for the time being. I also registered my interest with them, just in case a miracle would happen. But then in late autumn of 2006, I read a newsflash of "3" or "Three", the latest addition to the small list of mobile phone providers in Ireland. And they were going to provide a decent Internet connection via the Third Generation (3G) mobile phone network. Terms like GPRS, EDGE and HSPDA started to spin around my head, and I eventually got myself registered for this. How this all was coming about is another story. Meanwhile we have it and it's quite ok so far. But more is to come! Watch the space.
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