Eircom delay 8MB speed upgrade and piss off their customers!

Back in January 2008 Eircom announced they'd be upgrading many exchanges in Ireland to upto 8MB speeds:

Retail broadband customers will continue to pay the same monthly fee and will receive the speed upgrades free of charge, while today’s announcement will provide lower wholesale broadband prices.

eircom will now offer broadband products with download speeds that range from 1Mb up to 12Mb per second. The speed upgrades and new products will be introduced on a phased basis over the coming months.

They also advised that final dates for each exchange would be finalized between January and June 2008, well at the end of June 2008 they announced these would be delayed until a as of yet unconfirmed date.

For all those people on Eircom and stuck using Eircom Wholesale Bit-Stream resellers (UTV, Perlico, BT (for the most part), Vodafone etc this is yet another reason why Eircom sucks!

On the other scale of things UPC (NTL/Chorus) recently announced packages of upto 20MB speeds which they've already began rolling out to customers....no set cap either (includes a Fair Usage Policy I'd imagine though).

Perhaps this will force Eircom into spending money on ADSL2+ who knows, I guess time will tell.

Any further comments on this delay from Eircom customers or employee's are welcome.