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The Most Lively Speaker Award at the same event went to Mr Stephen Brewer (CEO of Eircell and user of Lotus Notes), who seized…

The Most Lively Speaker Award at the same event went to Mr Stephen Brewer (CEO of Eircell and user of Lotus Notes), who seized the opportunity to remind the conveniently-massed representatives of big business that Eircell holds 70 per cent of the one million-strong Irish mobile phone market. Release 5 - er, R5 - would give Eircell a convenient competitive advantage in a tough telecoms market into which a third mobile phone competitor would enter before long, he said, adding, ". . . and with the regulator more on their side than our side . . ." Pause. ". . . said Stephen Brewer at the Berkeley Court . . ." Queue audience laughter, at which Brewer quipped, "Actually, we get along very well, as long as I do what she says."

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