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Mon 02 Feb 2007Eircom given signal to deliver on its promisesBusiness Opinion:It's getting on for eight months since Babcock & Brown acquired that most important of assets, the national phone network.It would be tempting to say that as of last Friday all the public has seen since then is an application for a subsidy to help it meet its obligation to provide everybody who wants one with a phone and the prospect of a price rise.