Communications minister Eamon Ryan today welcomed the announcement by eircom of its €20 million ultra-fast broadband trials. The open access trials will deliver speeds of up to 150Mb/s, to 10,000 residential and business customers in Wexford Town and Sandyford in Dublin.
Speaking from Japan, where he is meeting with broadband and ICT companies, Minister Ryan said: “I very much welcome this announcement by eircom, the latest in a line of significant developments in Ireland’s broadband story.
My Department’s National Broadband Scheme has cracked the availability issue and will deliver broadband to every area of Ireland this autumn – three years ahead of the EU target of 2013 and 10 years ahead of the USA’s target of 2020.
The speed and quality of broadband has been firmly in my sights since I published my NGB policy paper last year. My policy, based on facilitating competition and providing investment certainty is now beginning to bear fruit, as far as speeds are concerned.
Eircom’s announcement today is one of the most important developments in recent years and will result in huge bandwidth being provided to the trialled homes and businesses. This development, along with the roll out of 100Mb/s capability by the cable operator, demonstrates the market’s appetite to respond to the demands for bigger bandwidth…I have no doubt that the lessons learned will greatly inform the roll out of next generation networks on a wider scale. I wish all participants every success with these trials and I look forward to monitoring the development in the months ahead.”
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