In its latest quarterly report on Ireland’s telecommunications market, that 12.5 per cent of all broadband subscriptions in Ireland are for broadband speeds advertised as being greater than 10 megabytes per second compared to 7.3 per cent this time last year.

The number of people adopting higher broadband speeds has increased in the last quarter.

Findings the total number of internet subscriptions in Ireland is reported to have fallen very slightly in the last quarter – 1 April to 30 June – to 1,662, 471.

That overall broadband subscriptions in Ireland are slowing.

The estimated broadband household penetration rate is now at 53.3 per cent reached.

This quarter experienced the highest number of  mobile phone numbers ported – 123,646 – since the introduction of mobile phone number portability in 2003.

Mobile subscriptions, including mobile broadband,  stood at 5,377,188, down from 5,412,551 in the previous quarter.

Total quarterly electronic communications  revenues of €961 million which is a marginal (1.3 per cent) increase on the previous quarter.

Ireland is ranked first out of 20 countries for business calls with calls 54.8 per cent cheaper than the average of the 20 countries benchmarked.

Total voice traffic on fixed and mobile phone lines declined by 0.7 per cent to just over 4.45 billion voice minutes this quarter.

That as of this month, approximately three-quarters of TV homes in Ireland now receive a digital television service.

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John usually talks to audiences who are very unhappy because they don’t own the network nor have control over QoS, but WISPs and other ISPs attending ISPCON are in control and do own the network. The voice they sell can be as good or bad as they are willing to enable with the power they have.

Asterisk is a viable tool to provide voIP. Often used as a telephony toolkit, as voie application, set of APIs, and PBX. Decide to make the call go over SIP or PRI or SS7 link. The APIs give call control over other interfaces for web 2.0 apps, pre-existing database to make calls out… The PBX is very popular worldwide.

“You’re using Asterisk. You just don’t know it.”

Asterisk experienced more than a million downloads in 2008. Watch the video for more info and stats. This video was recorded by me Suzanne during ISPcon 2008.

If you the ISP or WISP is not using and selling Asterisk-based product, who is? That’s a question Todd posed. I would say, “Someone is. No, many are.”