New concerns over broadband for rural areas
A Fianna Fail councillor in the region is claiming the National Broadband Scheme is now unlikely to be in place until 2021 at the earliest. Cavan councillor John Paul Feeley was reacting to the latest announcement of a new broadband contract having been signed between the Department of Communications and…
18,000 North West homes to get superfast broadband by mid-2018
Almost 18,000 homes in the North West are to get 1 Gigabite per second super fast fibre broadband over the next 12 months. The roll-out into more than 14,000 homes in Donegal is the biggest in the State announced by communications company Eir in which 100,000 homes nationally will get…
Parts of north west to get high speed broadband before year’s end
Significant work is being done to roll out high speed broadband in the north west after the region was shown to have some of the slowest speeds in Ireland. A switcher.ie survey today shows Leitrim, Donegal and Sligo to be amongst the worst counties in Ireland for broadband speeds. Leitrim…