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National Broadband Scheme – Strange Bedfellows

While rumour on Boards.ie is that the National Broadband Scheme is canceled, despite providers being brought this far, heres some interesting (for me) data about it. Just looking at more FOI’d documents from the Department of Communications and the list of companies and consortiums who applied for the National Broadband Scheme tender:

Wirefree
Eircom
BroadNet (Motorola & Azotel Consortium)
3 Ireland
BT, Wirefree & Avanti Consortium
Avanti Broadband
Crimson Tide
Clearwire, Motorola Consortium
IFA, Motorola Consortium
UPC, Enet, BT Consortium
Smart, Enet, Last Mile, Permanet Consortium

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2 Responses to “National Broadband Scheme – Strange Bedfellows”

  1. Niall says:
    June 30, 2008 at 11:04 am

    A lot of strange bedfellows on that list. With so much scepticism on the scheme from the start do you think these were genuine applications or just a chance to promote existing services/block out the competition?

  2. Elana says:
    June 30, 2008 at 1:55 pm

    Crimson Tide? Seriously? Apparently they don’t have women at that company. Baaaaaad name.