Digiweb is a telecommunications company in

Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...

, supplying business and consumer

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and web hosting. Digiweb is 100% Irish-owned and run, and is headquartered in

Dundalk Dundalk ( ; ga, Dún Dealgan ), meaning "the fort of Dealgan", is the county town (the administrative centre) of County Louth, Ireland. The town is on the Castletown River, which flows into Dundalk Bay on the east coast of Ireland. It is h ...

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, with its technical, installation and sales offices in

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. In May 2013, it acquired the British telecommunications company Viatel.

Broadband services

Home broadband

Digiweb offer a variety of broadband services in Ireland: Metro Wireless Broadband (broadband and phone), mobile broadband (as of 2007),

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and

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broadband (over standard phone lines), and satellite broadband. The main wireless broadband service offers various broadband packages from 5 Mb/s down/1 Mb up (economy service) to 30 Mb down/1 Mb up (premium service). Transceiver locations are available in all major cities –

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– as well as a dozen or so towns around Ireland including

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and

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. The service requires line-of-sight to the transceiver location and is offered up to 10 km from the point-of-service; this limit was set under the original

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licence conditions. Metro uses

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2.0 over microwave frequencies. Digiweb are also testing a DOCSIS 3.0 platform supporting speeds in excess of 100 Mb/s. A smaller-scale wireless broadband service (using Airspan) is offered in smaller towns around the country. As Digiweb offer a phone service without the

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copper pair, they are one of the few competitors along to Eircom's fixed line voice service.

Mobile broadband and phone

In April 2007, Digiweb announced that they are set to become Ireland's fifth mobile phone provider. ComReg, the telecoms regulator, allocated the 088 prefix to the new network – the same prefix used by Eircell's old analogue

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system. The service would have been Ireland's first 4G network and should have taken 18 months to be rolled out.

Business broadband

In 2007, they launched a revised business broadband portfolio with speeds of 100 Mbit/s as well as higher-end solutions with extra capacity and symmetrical speeds. In mid-2008, they announced the launch of a 1 Gb business package.

Web hosting services

Digiweb also provide web hosting and domain services in their purpose-built data centre based in

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, Dublin. Services include shared, virtual, cloud, CoLo and dedicated hosting options.

Other countries

Satellite broadband and ISP services such as hosting and domain registration are offered by Digiweb in

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and the

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Awards

Digiweb were the 2007 Irish Telecommunications and ICT Company of the Year and were the second-fastest-growing technology sector business in Ireland in 2006.Deloitte Tech Fast 50: 2nd Place Award
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Footnotes

Internet service providers of the Republic of Ireland