Broadband gets €32m in Estimates

Qadhafi

Broadband plan nets €32m
By John Kennedy
SiliconRepublic.com
14.11.2003
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Close to €32m will be invested in broadband according to the latest Book of Estimates, as part of a plan aimed at bringing high-capacity metropolitan area networks to 19 towns around Ireland.
Last year the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources confirmed that €19m was spent on the National Broadband Strategy in 2001, €32m in 2003 and €32m in 2004.

Confirming the spend for 2004, Minister Dermot Ahern TD said: “This is a key Government project. Without it our availability to attract inward investment in locations outside of Dublin will be diminished. A modern, high-speed, low-cost communications and broadband network is an essential enabler of economic activity and social inclusion.”

The 19 towns involved in the project are: Waterford, Dungarvan, Wexford, Carlow, Clonmel, Kilkenny, Cork, Shannon/Limerick, Galway, Athlone, Mullingar, Carrick-on-Shannon, Manorhamilton, Gweedore, Roscommon, Portlaoise, Letterkenny, Tullamore and Ballina.

Qadhafi

These are 19 new towns seperate from the ones last year?

I think they are going ahead with the one in Monaghan but I havent heard anything about it. Whats the range of this technology and what speeds are generally associated with it?

jesus_thats_gre

Originally posted by Qadhafi
The 19 towns involved in the project are: Waterford, Dungarvan, Wexford, Carlow, Clonmel, Kilkenny, Cork, Shannon/Limerick, Galway, Athlone, Mullingar, Carrick-on-Shannon, Manorhamilton, Gweedore, Roscommon, Portlaoise, Letterkenny, Tullamore and Ballina.

Have they just drawn a line from Sligo to Arklow and picked towns from below that line?

chewb

?

Carrick-on-Shannon, Manorhamilton, Gweedore, Roscommon, Letterkenny, and Ballina are pretty much north of that line. I'm gald to see two towns even in county Leitrim alone!