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Wed 06 Jun 2000New roads, better air access key to city's bright high-tech future
The recent opening of multinational telecommunications giant NTL's customer management centre in Waterford has been a real coup for Waterford - a city where future economic prosperity could depend on its ability to attract high-tech and scientific industry. Waterford has one of the largest and most impressive Institutes of Technology in the country with a ready pool of software graduates and has already attracted a number of large multinationals like Allied Signal, Bausch and Lomb and AOL.
But despite this success, it is widely recognised that a lack of investment in infrastructure and access roads to and from Waterford has stymied a large volume of potential inward investment.
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