eircom Group today announced the adoption of a management proposal for a wide ranging set of commercial reforms that will fundamentally enhance access to eircom’s national infrastructure for all telecoms operators in Ireland.  

A range of measures will deliver process improvements for existing regulated wholesale products such as LLU, as well as for future next generation access services.  The proposed reforms will cover regulated access products currently sold by eircom, and eircom will develop its next generation access products with a view to ensuring that all operators have access via Wholesale to eircom’s technology organisation and product development processes to deliver quality products and services to the end customer. 

The Group will also put in place improved governance, measureable KPIs, internal codes of practice and other measures that will provide greater transparency for customers of eircom’s wholesale operations. eircom Wholesale will remain within eircom Group but will be rebranded to signal its enhanced role. This will be led by Chris Hutchings, our recently appointed MD for eircom Wholesale. 

Commenting on the announcement, Paul Donovan, CEO eircom Group, said “These commercial reforms reinforce the importance of eircom’s wholesale business and the value that we place on our wholesale customers.  We want to deliver – and be seen to deliver – wholesale services in a way that ensures a level playing field for companies who want to access Ireland’s largest and most extensive fixed telecoms network. These changes will provide more efficient processes for operators who already access our network and maximise innovation for next generation products such as fibre.   

“We believe the proposed changes outline a clear and unambiguous set of measures that will help grow our wholesale business and further encourage competition within the telecommunications industry in Ireland. This will improve the quality and choice of products available to other operators and ensures that the industry as a whole continues to facilitate economic growth in Ireland.”  

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For more information, please contact:

Paul Bradley                                                                             Dearbhaill Rossiter

Head of Communications                                                           Senior Press Officer

eircom:                                                                                     eircom

Tel: +353 1 600 4281                                                                 Tel: +353 1 600 5284

Mobile: +353 85 17 44 281                                                         Mob: +353 85 1745 284

eircom Wholesale currently provides open telecoms access, traffic and infrastructure services to over 60 national and international service providers, using the national reach of the eircom fixed network with more than 12,000 kilometres of fibre and the world class capacity of its NGN core network.