The Irish Government should consider legislation that forces the disconnection of persistent illegal music downloaders, the chief executive of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has said.

The Irish Recorded Music Association has lost in a bid to force UPC to adopt a ‘three strikes’ approach to alleged illegal file sharers. UPC had argued it was a…

Vodafone Ireland – the country’s second-biggest ISP – is in talks with IRMA about adopting the three-strikes policy to tackle music piracy online, according to The Irish Times. Eircom recently…

Cable company UPC has announced the roll-out of upgraded services to towns in the midlands, which will bring the company’s high-speed broadband to an extra 45,000 homes. The €15m upgrade…

Cable company Chorus/NTL will launch a Video on Demand (VoD) service this year, according to its CEO. In a statement following the release of the company’s financial results for 2009…

Cable provider Chorus/NTL has made the FX channel available to its digital TV customers. FX, which is owned by Fox International, will be broadcast on channel 126 of the company’s…

February is already upon us but as fast as the months seem to go, the tech world moves ten times faster. As January has already suggested, 2010 is shaping up…

Eircom and Vodafone have both launched their own 24mbps home broadband packages today. The high-speed services will be available to new and existing customers of both companies and according to…

Cable company Chorus/NTL is in the early stages of a planned entry into the mobile phone market in Ireland. The company’s chief executive Robert Dunn said they were still at…

Recent manoeuvres in the telecoms industry in Ireland has marked the expanding choice of so-called ‘triple-play’ services however with such stiff competition the race is on to push things to…