Broadband is the term used for the use of telecommunication in which a wide band of frequencies are available to transmit information over the internet.

Landline Imagine/Irish

Broadband UPC Perlico Smart Eircom Strencom

Mobile Vodafone O2 Meteor Three

The Imagine Communications Group is a pan-European communications provider with head quarters in Ireland.

In April 2008 the Imagine Communications Group acquired Irish Broadband from NTR and Kilsaran Concrete in a move, which enlarged the Group to annualised revenues of over €100m.

The merge with IB will allow Next Generation Voice and Data services to be offered to business and residential customers across Ireland.

They offer a wide range of services: Boradband, wireless broadband, telephone, LAN and conferencing.

A new player in the Irish entertainment market and already the largest company, a merger between Chorus and NTL.

One of the few triple play providers in Ireland, offers Digital TV, Fibre Power Broadband and Home Phone.

Awards received: Best Internet Service Provider for two years in a row at the Digital Media Awards 2008 and 2009.

Best Training Programme and Best Use of Technology at the National Irish Contact Centre and Shared Services Awards in 2008. We also received a special commendation for Best Technical Support Centre/Helpdesk.

Nominated for an ICT award for our Corporate&Social Responsibility work.

Special Judges Award at the 14th Annual Irish Contact Centre and Shared Services Awards

Excellence Through People award from FAS achieved by Customer Care in 2009.

Perlico is a subsidiary of Vodafone, the world's leading telecommunications company and Perlico are a leading alternative supplier of Home Phone and Broadband services to Irish customers.

Perlico offers a complete range of mobile, fixed line voice and broadband communication services

Perlico pride the company on their high quality and customer service skills.

Monthly price: €46 (incl VAT). 3MB Always On Broadband for the price of

1MB - €6 per month. Unlimited local and national calls,

anytime. Generous 36GB download allowance. FREE Connection. FREE Wi-Fi Modem. F-Secure PC Protection, free for 3 months.

Smart Telecom is an Irish telecom service provider that has achieved great success in the Business, Government and Residential markets in Ireland since its inception in 2000.

Smart Telecom offers the only Next Generation Network (NGN) in Ireland - The Smart NGN.

NGN means: Greater speeds and no contention Greater responsiveness - service provision in hours rather than

weeks Greater reliability - Smart NGN is a Carrier Ethernet network

which can carry voice, data and video using less equipment and less people than our competitors who are tied to old technology networks

Greater Value for Money - because we can provide our solution with less capital expenditure and less people, we pass these cost savings on to our customers.

Greater Flexibility - Smart Telecom customers have more choice over what they communicate (voice, data, video),and the speeds that they use.

Optional Static IP Address 5Mb Down / 384kb Up Optional 1Mb Upload Add On Free WiFi modem for all online orders €16.50

Eircom is the principal provider of fixed-line telecommunications services in Ireland with approximately 2.6 million fixed-line telephone access channels in service. 68% market share of the Irish fixed-line market in the quarter ended June 30, 2008.

Mobile division is Meteor. Services include: fixed-line voice services , including PSTN and ISDN access; local,

national and international voice services; advanced voice services; and Voice over IP (‘‘VoIP'') services;

fixed-line data services , including domestic and international data transmission services, such as ADSL; leased lines and advanced data packet based services, including Asynchronous Transfer Mode (‘‘ATM''), frame relay and internet protocol (‘‘IP'') services; managed data networking services; hosting and internet access and related information technology services; and

other services , including customer premises equipment sales; public payphones; sale and monitoring of domestic alarm systems and directory enquiries. We also offer other authorised operators (‘‘OAOs'') wholesale services and products, including:

interconnect services; leased lines; partial private circuits; access to our local connection network via unbundled local loops; and ADSL Bitstream access, which supports broadband access;

carrier pre-selection, which permits customers to select another OAO as the default carrier for some or all calls, and enhancements to carrier pre-selection, including carrier pre-selection single billing through Wholesale Line Rental (‘‘WLR''), carrier pre-selection agency re-billing and carrier pre-selection single billing through WLR ancillary services, which enable OAOs to provide a fuller range of services;

geographic and non-geographic number portability, which allows customers to keep their telephone numbers regardless of the authorised operator they choose.

Monthly Price: €24.75. Ideal for 1-3 users of the internet. Up to 3MB download speed. Upload speed of 384kbps. Free self install connection-online only. Free WI-FI modem.

In July 2002, Irish Broadband, obtained a telecommunications licence from ComReg.

ComReg is the statutory body responsible for the regulation of the electronic sector.

Second largest provider in the Republic of Ireland, after Eircom.

They provide a wide range of broadband services for residential and business customers including 4MB symmetrical links.

Breeze 4Mb • Download 4mb Upload 4mb• Contention 24:1 • Unlimited Download• Monthly: €55.00 Installation:€100.00

• Minimum subscription period: 12 months.

• No phone lines necessary therefore saving on line rental.

24mb Download 768kb Upload Contention 48:1 100gb Download limit €62

› Can be Bundled with phone› Free Wireless Modem

I would recommend the Eircom package as there is no installation fee and you can install it yourself. The monthly price of €24.75 is good value. This package is ideal for a small business with 1-3 users.

Rogers is the main supplier of all telecommunication in Toronto.

They hold 80% of the market share.

Their extreme offer is up to download speed of up to 50 Mbps and upload speed of up to 2 Mbps and 175 GBmonthly usage allowance with up to 9 Emails and a suite of options for $ 99

Faster download speeds - up to 25 Mbps. Fastest upload speeds in the market - up

to 7 Mbps Internet usage: 75 GB of bandwidth per

month Free wireless home networking and free

Wi-Fi at Starbucks For first 12 months $57.95