Talk:BT Ireland

British Telecom (BT)

Reading this article I think the whole "British Telecom" thing is a little over stated and over kill to the point that it is essentially a point of view and agenda seeking. So what if a UK company has derived its name from Britain - and discourages anything other than BT as its name - people don't get upset by the many, many companies that trade with the name "UK and Ireland" in their title? Djegan 18:41, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

I tend to agreed, and tried to clarify it but made it a bit long-winded in the process. BT hasn't called itself British Telecom in nearly fifteen years, remember... British Telecommunications plc isn't even the ultimate holding company any more. --Rdd 22:29, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

I agree. The whole "British" thing is a non-issue. I don't think it has caused any fuss --Colmc 20:23, 20 Febuary 2006 (UTC)

Esat

Can anyone confirm this before I put it into the article - Esat had bid for Ireland's 5 frequencies under the 1977 ITU Direct Broadcast Satellite plan, but didn't receive them. Its fairly hard to find any references for this on the net - we're talking 1989 decisions by Rambo, err, Ray Burke, so... --Kiand 01:31, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Cannot confirm but do you know if Esat had an earlier name, i have tried some of the variations. Its earliest appearence on www.cro.ie/search is the 1994 (but by no means definitive). Nothing much on http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/ either. Djegan 19:12, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

The DBS frequencies were allocated to Ireland (and every other European country) in 1977 but it was the mid 1980's before their use became technically feasible. E=Sat and the rival Atlantic Satellites consortium planned to use them for an Irish based broadcasting service beamed at Irish and (much larger) UK market. For the project to be financially viable it was necessary for the UK based [British Satellite Broadcasting] platform (which any Irish based service would have piggybacked on) to be a success which for various reasons (The main one being the success of the pan-European Astra platform effectively rendering the national DBS concept obsolete) turned out not to be the case. E-Sat loosing out to Atlantic satellites probably turned out to be a blessing in disguise because after all this is the first time you've ever heard of them ! 5.253.206.156 (talk) 20:56, 28 July 2019 (UTC)

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