Isolde Tries to Stitch up Minister




Dear Noel,

As you know, we are quite crafty when it comes to hiding our regulatory failure extraordinaire.
Our latest mind-boggling achievement, an alarming five percent decline of Irish Home Internet Penetration in the last year, needed special attention.
Isolde purged the figures from the two main documents of our end 2004 Quarterly Report. In the "Trendwatch" document she successfully hid the devastating trend under a misleading headline. This is again in breach of clear OECD rules and our own promises to adhere to them in future, but nowbody noticed.
The green columns are the only important ones and the head line should have been: "Only 35% of Irish Households Online. An Alarming Decline of 5% from Last Year."
This is deadly news for our broadband hopes and the result of our failure to introduce meaningful flat-rate Internet access.



I can fully understand you got mad about this latest manipulation and ordered a review of our Quarterly Reports, which we have dutifully instigated. (But don't put your hopes up that we will actually change much!)


In the meantime, just disregard our manipulative Quarterly Reports and have a look at the grim reality of the Irish situation in comparison with the rest of the EU. Click on any of the following graphs from the official EU Commission staff working paper of December 2004 to see the graph in its ugly detail.
You will agree that we would not want to have those stats placed in front of the eyes of the Irish public. Questions could get asked what ComReg was doing?

Regards

John





















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