€435m Broadband Plan for Ireland

Jul 4, 2008

The Government has unveiled a next-generation network (NGN) plan that will see €435m pumped into a nationwide fibre-optic network, with state-owned fibre technology being utilised and broadband made universal by 2010.

The plan, unveiled today by the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan TD (pictured), will make use of significant dark fibre networks belonging to Bord Gáis, ESB and CIÉ around the country to develop a nationwide backhaul network available to telecom operators on an open access basis.

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