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Wed 02 Feb 2009Group concerned by €233m broadband plan's limitations
THE GOVERNMENT’S €223 million national broadband scheme will not deliver 100 per cent coverage and has serious technical limitations, according to a rural development organisation that has analysed the scheme.
Irish Rural Link (IRL), a lobby group for sustainable rural development, said it has a “real concern” that the scheme is based almost entirely on mobile broadband technology, which it claims has reliability and capacity problems.
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