Posts Tagged: Industry news


9
Dec 09

Changing the ‘face’ of business telephony in Ireland

During the final week of November we launched the newest area of our website, a dedicated Business section targeting Irish companies who are looking to upgrade their phone system to a more manageable, more efficient and most importantly better value service.

We spent a number of months developing a series of plans that we felt covered a range of business types from small office style businesses to SME’s and all the way up to multi-site retail outlets and call centres.

The Business plans are priced with the end-user in mind, the Business Basic package is a 2 channel package, included in this plan is unlimited Ireland & UK Landline calls* as well as 75 mobile minutes for only €49 a month. Next up is Business Plus for €69, Business Advantage for €99, Business Global €139, right up to Business Corporate which is a 32 channel package with unlimited Ireland & UK calls* and a massive 700 mobile minutes for only €219 a month.

We have only had our business call plans officially active for a few weeks now, but the interest has been remarkable. The demand for a reliable phone service which offers companies a greater level of freedom and significant cost savings is exceptional. We have spent no money on Marketing our products so far this quarter and yet, organically through coverage in the Sunday Business Post, Online via our partner sites and our excellent SEO performance has seen a huge increase in business enquiries. We stand by our belief that first and foremost we are a Communications company, if we’re not making it easier for businesses to stay in touch with their customers and suppliers then we’re not helping.

We can provide a number of features that enable Businesses to save money – ‘voicemail to email’ which saves time and money from having to access voicemail on their phones, ‘fax to email’ essentially ‘paperless’ faxing which again saves money and is better for the environment and more importantly, with exporting in mind, ‘International Geographic Numbers’. If your company would like to have a local number in London, New York or a number of international cities, we can provide you with a locally listed number for new potential customers to call, giving SME’s an early step up in International Business.


12
Nov 09

Old telecoms model is over – Eammon Ryan

Siliconrepublic’s John Kennedy speaks with Minister Eammon Ryan about the Irish Telecoms industry.

30.10.2009
The old telecoms model in Ireland of short-term private-equity firms owning incumbent networks has failed and a new model that paves the way for competition must be embraced, the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Eamon Ryan TD told this morning’s Dublin Web Summit.

Referring to the impending €130-million acquisition of Eircom by STT Communications, a subsidiary of Singapore Telecom, Ryan said the time for change is here.

“We have failed in Ireland – the short-term private-equity model in telecoms companies … it didn’t think long-term or big or investing in the state of networks we need.

“I hope that we may get some ownership that sees characteristics of networks have to be more open to work better.

“The old telecoms model of closed networks is gone – we need a different model and one that can deliver,” Ryan said.

Key tenets

In recent weeks, the Green Party made universal broadband provision by 2012 and 100Mbps broadband to every school in Ireland by the end of 2010 key tenets in the party’s agreement to stay in Government with Fianna Fail.

“We need to start in schools,” Ryan said. “We need to make sure every classroom has the ability to get under the hood of technology, tinker with it and that use energy less by using the internet more.”

By John Kennedy

Photo: Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Eamon Ryan.

Original article : SiliconRepublic