Digiweb
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| Type | Ltd. |
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| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Headquarters | Dundalk, Ireland |
| Key people | Colm Piercy, CEO |
| Products | Fixed Wireless and Mobile Broadband, Web Hosting & Data Centre Services, Business Solutions, DSL, Satellite etc. |
| Employees | over 140 |
| Website | www.digiweb.ie |
Digiweb is a telecommunications company in Ireland, supplying business and consumer broadband and web hosting.
Digiweb is 100% Irish owned and run, and is headquartered in Dundalk, County Louth with its technical, installation and sales offices in Dublin.
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[edit] Broadband Services
[edit] Home Broadband
Digiweb offer a variety of broadband services in Ireland: Metro Wireless Broadband (Broadband & Phone), Mobile Broadband (as of 2007), DSL Broadband (over standard phone lines) and Satellite broadband.
The main wireless broadband service offers various broadband packages from 1Mb down/256kb up (economy service) to 10Mb down/2Mb up (premium service). Transceiver locations are available in all major cities, Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford, Kilkenny as well as a dozen or so towns around Ireland. The service requires line-of-sight to the transceiver location and is offered up to 10 km from the point-of-service; this limit was set under the original Comreg licence conditions. Metro uses DOCSIS 2.0 over microwave frequencies.
A smaller-scale wireless broadband service (using Airspan) is offered in smaller towns around the country.
As Digiweb offer a phone service without the Eircom copper pair they are one of the few competitors along to Eircom's fixed line voice service.
[edit] Mobile Broadband & Phone
In April 2007, Digiweb announced that it is set to become Ireland's fifth mobile phone provider. ComReg, the telecoms regulator, allocated the 088 prefix to the new network - the same prefix used by Eircell's old analogue TACS system. The service will be Ireland's first 4G network and should take 18 months to be rolled out.[1][2]
[edit] Business Broadband
In 2007, recently launched a revised business broadband portfolio with speeds of 100Mbit/s[3] as well as higher end solutions with extra capacity and symmetrical speeds.[4] In mid 2008, they announced the launch of a new 1Gb business package[5]
[edit] Web Hosting Services
Digiweb also provide web hosting services in their purpose build Data Centre based in Blanchardstown, Dublin.
[edit] Other Countries
Satellite broadband and ISP services such as hosting and domain registration are offered by Digiweb in Ireland, France, Italy and the United Kingdom.
[edit] Awards
Digiweb are the current Irish Telecommunications and ICT Company of the Year[6] and the 2nd fastest growing technology sector business in Ireland.[7]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Press Release: Digiweb Mobile Takes 088
- ^ RTÉ News article: Ireland gets new mobile phone provider
- ^ New Business Packages: Speed Increase to 100Mb
- ^ Symmetrical High Capacity Broadband: Dedicated Broadband
- ^ 1Gb business package:High Speed Broadband
- ^ ICT Awards: Company of the Year
- ^ Deloitte Tech Fast 50: 2nd Place Award
