National Broadband Plan

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Eir’s director of mobile networks, Fergal McCann, and CEO, Carolan Lennon. Photograph: Chris Bellew/Fennell Photography
Will Eir’s €500m investment change the broadband game?

Eir announced a €500 million overhaul of its fixed broadband platform this week, pledging to build fibre lines directly into an additional 1.4 million(...)

The contract, which was renewed in 2017, is said to be worth at least €20 million a year to Limerick-based Enet. Photograph: PA Wire
Government under fire for awarding major telecoms contract without tender

The Government has come under fire for failing to put a major telecommunications contract out to tender and for presiding over a deeply uncompetitive (...)

Building telecoms infrastructure in rural parts is proving a headache for governments across the world, principally because the technology and the demand it spawns keeps evolving.
State’s largest telcos to reveal why they shunned broadband plan

The State’s largest telcos will appear before the Public Accounts Committee on Thursday to explain why they have shunned the National Broadband Plan ((...)

Eir’s broadband market share in Dublin stands at just 20 per cent, compared with Virgin’s 60 per cent. Photograph: Maxwells
Eir’s market share in Dublin underscores disaster that was privatisation

Perhaps the best illustration of how disastrous privatisation has been for Eir comes via its broadband market share in Dublin, which stands at just 20(...)

There was only one bidder for the National Broadband Plan, a US investment vehicle with no direct experience of building a big piece of telecoms infrastructure, and no competitive tender after the industry here and in the UK all but shunned the process. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire
Rural Ireland plays waiting game as Government mulls broadband bid

It’s been 16 weeks since the final and only bid for the National Broadband Plan (NBP) was submitted to Government amid a flurry of controversy about f(...)

FleetConnect CEO Patrick Cotter: “People expect wifi to be abundant and excellent in 2018.”
The entrepreneur providing wifi solutions to transport firms and rural Ireland

As an integral part of our daily experience, it’s difficult to imagine a time where we lived without wifi. “Access to fast, efficient broadband used (...)

Former minister for communications Denis Naughton. Neither he nor David McCourt were asked for written statements by auditor Peter Smith. File photograph: Dara Mac Donaill
No written statements sought from Naughten

Neither businessman David McCourt nor former minister for communications Denis Naughton were asked for written statements by the auditor who examined (...)

The €3 billion figure may have been created by someone inside the Government, perhaps to dampen expectations the broadband plan will ever be completed. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA
Price tag touted for National Broadband Plan could be PR spinning

The National Broadband Plan (NBP) was a wounded animal before we heard last month that the project might cost a whopping €3 billion, twice the origina(...)

At a meeting with Eir’s chief executive and chairman, then minister for communications Denis Naughten welcomed the acquisition of Eir by French telecommunications conglomerate NJJ. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins
Naughten aimed to name broadband plan preferred bidder by September

Former minister for communications Denis Naughten intended to have a preferred bidder in place for the national broadband plan (NBP) by September, doc(...)

Denis Naughten: his ill-advised contacts with lead bidder David McCourt are difficult to comprehend. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins
National Broadband Plan woes could be a blessing in disguise

It’s perhaps just a coincidence that a major telecoms sale should come unstuck for a second time under Fine Gael and for broadly comparable reasons – (...)

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