primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . may 2008 learn how and when to remove this template message digiweb group type private limited company industry telecommunications founded 1997 headquarters dundalk ireland key people colm piercy ceo products fixed wireless and mobile broadband web hosting and data centre services business solutions dsl satellite number of employees over 140 website www.digiweb.ie digiweb is a telecommunications company in ireland supplying business and consumer broadband and web hosting . digiweb is 100 % irish owned and run and is headquartered in dundalk county louth with its technical installation and sales offices in dublin . in may 2013 it acquired the british telecommunications company viatel . 1 contents 1 broadband services 1.1 home broadband 1.2 mobile broadband and phone 1.3 business broadband 2 web hosting services 3 other countries 4 awards 5 footnotes 6 external links broadband services edit home broadband edit digiweb offer a variety of broadband services in ireland metro wireless broadband broadband and phone mobile broadband as of 2007 dsl and vdsl 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 dublin cork limerick galway waterford kilkenny as well as a dozen or so towns around ireland including drogheda dundalk and letterkenny . 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 comreg licence conditions . metro uses docsis 2.0 over microwave frequencies . digiweb are also testing a docsis 3.0 platform supporting speeds in excess of 100 mb s. 2 a smaller scale wireless broadband service using airspan is offered in smaller towns around the country . as digiweb offer a phone service without the eircom copper pair they are one of the few competitors along to eircom s fixed line voice service . mobile broadband and phone edit 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 tacs system . the service would have been ireland s first 4g network and should have taken 18 months to be rolled out . 3 4 business broadband edit in 2007 they launched a revised business broadband portfolio with speeds of 100 mbit s 5 as well as higher end solutions with extra capacity and symmetrical speeds . 6 in mid 2008 they announced the launch of a 1 gb business package . 7 web hosting services edit digiweb also provide web hosting and domain services in their purpose built data centre based in blanchardstown dublin . services include shared virtual cloud colo and dedicated hosting options . other countries edit satellite broadband and isp services such as hosting and domain registration are offered by digiweb in ireland france italy and the united kingdom . awards edit digiweb were the 2007 irish telecommunications and ict company of the year 8 and were the second fastest growing technology sector business in ireland in 2006 . 9 footnotes edit digiweb group acquires viatel and vtlwavenet . capacity magazine . retrieved 2 august 2013 . super user . home digiweb home . digiweb.ie . retrieved 12 october 2015 . press release digiweb mobile takes 088 rt news article ireland gets new mobile phone provider new business packages speed increase to 100mb symmetrical high capacity broadband dedicated broadband 1gb business package high speed broadband ict awards company of the year deloitte tech fast 50 2nd place award external links edit official website official hosting website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title digiweb & oldid 729313489 categories internet companies of the republic of irelandhidden categories use irish english from october 2015all wikipedia articles written in irish englishuse dmy dates from october 2015articles lacking reliable references from may 2008all articles lacking reliable referencesofficial website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 11 july 2016 at 10 44 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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