Date: December 19. 2002

We don't need no regulation!
Eircom's Philip Nolan calls on ComReg to **ck off.

With concern we read in the Irish Examiner and elsewhere that Eircom "Chief executive Philip Nolan called on the Commission for Telecoms Regulation to back off Eircom."

Philip Nolan: "Given the level of competition in the market the sector does not need regulation and it should be scrapped."
The new and overconfident CEO of the company that has made eIreland the laughing stock of the developed world is now giving our Communications Minister Dermot Ahern, eMinister Mary Hanafin, Regulator Etain Doyle (and us all) the piss.
At first we did not know what to do with our toilet spy camera pic from the Eircom headquarters. We've now decided to use it to encourage our decision makers to no longer take any piss of this kind and have posted this card to Ahern, Hanafin and Doyle:

A word to Phil: The times they're a changing. In your arrogance you may think you can just go on in Alfie Kane fashion and bullsh*t the public and the media, and treat the decision makers as if they were still "Mrs Dumb and Dumber". While the latter is out of office (and flaunting her underwear in public) the other one may prove to be quite cute when given the right powers and assistance.
Your job is not just to make money for the shareholders by using any legal loophole and armtwisting technique known. Any CEO of a company of this magnitude and importance for this society has also a responsibility for the positive development of this society. If he does not he will in the end even fail to generate that money for the shareholders.
The nonsense you are putting forward in your interview with Ian Campbell (The Independent, December 19. 2002) about the rollout of broadband is hairraising. You say Eircom has played its part and now it's the government's task to generate demand! Whom are you kidding?

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