Tagged: National Broadband Scheme & News
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Rabbitte appoints two new commissioners to ComReg News
11.06.2013 Ireland’s Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte, TD, has appointed two new commissioners to telecoms regulator ComReg during what he describes as a “critical time” in the... -
Rural Broadband Scheme to connect the last 1pc News
09.05.2011 Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte TD has unveiled the much-anticipated Rural Broadband Scheme that aims to identify the remaining individual parts of Ireland without... -
Enabling the last 1pc missing broadband News
17.02.2011 An EU-supported project to bring broadband to the last 1pc of the country not served by broadband is caught in political limbo until after the elections. -
Laying the foundations for the schools of tomorrow News
02.02.2011 As the first 100Mbps digital schools were unveiled, former communications minister, Eamon Ryan TD, said 600 more schools are due to get essential broadband capacity.Categories: Web, Telecommunications, Networks, Networking & Telecoms, Internet, Government, Education -
99pc broadband coverage for all of Ireland – minister News
09.12.2010 Communications Minister Eamon Ryan announced the successful delivery of the €233m National Broadband Scheme by 3 Ireland, bringing a broadband service to 1,028 areas across... -
The environment to attract investment in Irish telecoms News
22.07.2010 The Telecommunications and Internet Federation (TIF) represents the local telecoms industry, which invests more than €500m annually in infrastructure. Tommy McCabe is director... -
Telecoms industry supports Govt’s infrastructure priorities News
29.07.2010 Telecoms industry body TIF said it welcomes the government’s 'Infrastructure Investment Priorities 2010-2016', and particularly the commitment to high-speed universal broadband...Categories: Telecommunications, Networking & Telecoms, Investments, Government, Digital 21, Communications -
Private sector to build Ireland’s next digital infrastructure News
26.07.2010 Outlining Ireland’s infrastructure priorities until 2016, the Government said the main investment in fibre-optic networks will be via the private sector. Enabling civil works –... -
Time to get the ball rolling on Ireland’s fibre infrastructure News
24.06.2010 There are a number of misguided people – unfortunately many of them in the upper echelons of Ireland’s ailing economic engine – who think that high-speed fibre broadband is only...Tags: iPad, Sales, Apple, Eamon Ryan TD, Paul Donovan, Eric Schmidt, Mark Kellett, MANs, Recession, National Broadband Scheme, UPC, Fibre, Google, Eircom, Broadband -
Virtualisation case study: Lakeland Dairies News
23.06.2010 Lakeland Dairies is one of Ireland's largest dairy processing co-operatives, employing around 650 people and operating out of five sites across the northern half of the island...Categories: Virtualisation, Servers, IT Management, Data Centre, CIO, Government, Comms, Digital 21, Internet -
€1.5bn invested in broadband in past three years, Ryan says News
18.06.2010 Communications Minister Eamon Ryan TD said that almost €1.5bn in public and private money has been invested in broadband infrastructure for Ireland in the last three years. -
3 Ireland hits 500,000-customer milestone News
14.06.2010 Mobile network 3 has hit the milestone of more than 500,000 customers subscribing to its voice and data services, of which more than 200,000 are mobile broadband users. -
Ireland’s mobile broadband explosion News
04.01.2010 There are now some 354,000 mobile broadband subscribers in Ireland, up 90pc year-on-year.Categories: Comms -
Bridging the digital divide News
29.12.2009 Broadband is a must-have for everyone in Ireland at present if we are to encourage local entrepreneurship, according to Kevin Ryan, CEO of Satellite Broadband Ireland.Categories: Comms -
Telecoms spending down as consumers tighten their belts News
23.12.2009 While broadband subscription in the Irish Republic continued to rise and surpass the 1.4m milestone, overall telecoms revenues and traffic have declined in the third quarter of... -
Govt outlines 2010 investment in broadband and ICT for schools News
10.12.2009 Communications Minister Eamon Ryan TD said last night that €45 million will be spent on modernising Ireland’s telecoms infrastructure and that 100Mbps of high-speed broadband... -
BT’s 21st-century network rollout to deliver Ethernet speeds across Ireland News
03.12.2009 BT has deployed 150 new Etherflow nodes in areas currently under-served with broadband.Categories: Comms -
Satellite firm shows the way to bridge the digital divide News
03.12.2009 Satellite Broadband Ireland is creating 30 new jobs after winning a contract to support 3 in rolling out broadband under the National Broadband Scheme (NBS). Kevin Ryan is CEO...Categories: Comms -
30 new jobs for Satellite Broadband Ireland after NBS deal with 3 News
29.10.2009 Mullingar-headquartered Satellite Broadband Ireland is to create 30 new jobs after being awarded a contract from mobile-broadband player 3 to provide satellite services to homes... -
Irish broadband penetration reaches 1.3m, but growth slows News
11.09.2009 Ireland has edged up to more than 1.3m broadband subscribers but according to ComReg’s report on the state of Irish telecoms for the second quarter overall, growth is slowing...Categories: Comms