Ireland's E-Commerce Aim In Jeopardy
According to the Association of Licensed
Telecoms Operators (ALTO) in Ireland, the government's goal of strengthening
Ireland as a major e-commerce hub could be in jeopardy thanks to its poor
telecoms liberalisation policy. ALTO says that an EU report published this
week has identified several ways in which Ireland reduces competition.
ALTO chairman, Mr Iarla Flynn, said the report referred to Ireland as
a country where telecoms operators are regularly granted leave to appeal
against regulatory decisions. Entitled the 'Seventh Annual Report on the
Implementation of the Telecommunications Regulatory Package', the report
outlines major problemat areas including fees for access to mobile
networks, the practice of Digifone and Eircell Vodafone of maintaining artificially
high charges, and the reputation of Eircom's leased lines performance
as one of the worst in the EU. In addition, the report reveals Ireland
to be the only EU country not to have launched any DSL lines or to have
unbundled a single local loop. The Commission has recommended that the Office of the Director of Telecommunications Regulation
(ODTR) lowers currently over-priced telecommunications charges. .
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