Editing Chorus Communication Limited (section)

=== Limerick City ===
Analogue and digital MMDS services were available in Limerick from a transmitter on Woodcock Hill. The city's cable TV system descends from Westward Cable (later Irish Multichannel) and installation of the network began in the early 1980s. This covered most of the city as far as [[Castletroy]] on the south side and [[Caherdavin]] to the north. Unfortunately it never reached some areas of the city (e.g. Clare Street) and most housing developments built since the 90s have not been linked to the network. {{As of|2006}} only analogue CATV was available on the system, with 18 unencrypted channels (including [[Channel 6 (Ireland)|Channel 6]] and [[Chorus TV]]) and some encrypted channels (such as [[Sky Sports|Sky Sports 1]] and [[Sky Movies|Sky Movies 1]]). Customers were supplied with cumbersome old Jerrold/[[General Instrument]] decoders to avail of the encrypted channels. Signal quality varied greatly and was often quite poor due to the age of the cables and related equipment. [[MPEG]] compression artefacts were also noticeably high on some channels sourced from digital MMDS signals. Interruption of service was also quite frequent. Channels previously on [[Band I|VHF Band I]] frequencies were moved to [[Band III]] positions to make way for the introduction of the [[cable broadband]] service. Digital cable television and broadband services were slowly introduced across the city from late 2006.