Digiweb is a

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Ireland Ireland (, ; ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe. Geopolitically, the island is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Irelan ...

, supplying business and consumer

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and

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, and a group of companies in the telecoms and technology sectors. The company is 100% Irish-owned and run, and is headquartered in

Dundalk Dundalk ( ; ) is the county town of County Louth, Ireland. The town is situated on the Castletown River, which flows into Dundalk Bay on the north-east coast of Ireland, and is halfway between Dublin and Belfast, close to and south of the bor ...

County Louth County Louth ( ; ) is a coastal Counties of Ireland, county in the Eastern and Midland Region of Republic of Ireland, Ireland, within the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster. Louth is bordered by the counties of County Meath, Meath to the ...

, with its technical, installation and sales offices in

Dublin Dublin is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, pa ...

History

Digiweb was founded on 21 March 1997. In May 2013, it acquired the UK-based telecommunications company

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, a part of a larger group.

Broadband services

Home broadband

Digiweb offer a variety of broadband services in Ireland: Metro Wireless Broadband (broadband and phone since 2005), mobile broadband (during 2007),

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(over standard phone lines),

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broadband, and satellite broadband. The main wireless broadband service offers various broadband packages from 5 Mbit/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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Limerick Limerick ( ; ) is a city in western Ireland, in County Limerick. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and is in the Mid-West Region, Ireland, Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. W ...

Galway Galway ( ; , ) is a City status in Ireland, city in (and the county town of) County Galway. It lies on the River Corrib between Lough Corrib and Galway Bay. It is the most populous settlement in the province of Connacht, the List of settleme ...

Waterford Waterford ( ) is a City status in Ireland, city in County Waterford in the South-East Region, Ireland, south-east of Ireland. It is located within the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster. The city is situated at the head of Waterford H ...

Kilkenny Kilkenny ( , meaning 'church of Cainnech of Aghaboe, Cainnech'). is a city in County Kilkenny, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is located in the South-East Region, Ireland, South-East Region and in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinst ...

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

Drogheda Drogheda ( , ; , meaning "bridge at the ford") is an industrial and port town in County Louth on the east coast of Ireland, north of Dublin. It is located on the Dublin–Belfast corridor on the east coast of Ireland, mostly in County Louth ...

and

Letterkenny Letterkenny ( , meaning "hillside of the O'Cannons"), nicknamed the Cathedral Town, is a large town in County Donegal, Ireland, on the River Swilly in the north-west of Ulster. Along with the nearby city of Derry, Letterkenny is a regional eco ...

. 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, but is also a limitation of the system for adequate performance in heavy rain. 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 Mbit/s. A smaller-scale wireless broadband service (using

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) 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, however the rollout was cancelled by early 2008.

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

References

{{reflist Internet service providers of the Republic of Ireland Companies based in Dundalk