# broadband - Monday 27 April, 2020
# Outages
# Outages
The problem emerged earlier this evening, when customers across the country reported internet outages.
# broadband - Friday 10 April, 2020
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
There has been increased pressure on the networks as more people work from home and connect with loved ones.
# broadband - Wednesday 29 January, 2020
# Deeptech
# Deeptech
Chief executive Carolan Lennon on rolling out the firm’s €1bn investment strategy.
# broadband - Tuesday 19 November, 2019
# Controversy
# Controversy
The cabinet met this morning to facilitate signing off on the multi-billion euro plan.
# broadband - Tuesday 12 November, 2019
# Networks
# Networks
Sinn Féin says it is open to talks with Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil after the next general election.
# broadband - Tuesday 27 August, 2019
# Rural Broadband
# Rural Broadband
Fianna Fáil’s Timmy Dooley said the decision to proceed is a matter for government.
# broadband - Saturday 24 August, 2019
# Rural Broadband
# Rural Broadband
The fees were paid to firms for advice given from 2013 to date.
# broadband - Wednesday 21 August, 2019
# National Broadband Plan
# National Broadband Plan
Government sources state that more delays will come at further extra costs.
# broadband - Monday 8 July, 2019
# National Broadband Plan
# National Broadband Plan
Eir’s CEO told an Oireachtas committee recently that it could deliver the NBP for less than €1 billion.
# broadband - Wednesday 26 June, 2019
# National Broadband Plan
# National Broadband Plan
The company’s CEO Carolan Lennon has said Eir could implement the National Broadband Plan for less than €1 billion.
# broadband - Thursday 13 June, 2019
# Outage
# Outage
Vodafone mobile data and broadband services were affected by the outage this afternoon.
# broadband - Thursday 9 May, 2019
# WiFi
# WiFi
FIanna Fáil says if in power it would set up an agency in the ESB to roll out broadband to rural Ireland.
# Broadband Controversy
# Broadband Controversy
The government was told the private bidder will, “in effect”, recoup its investment by 2028. By then, the State will have invested billions.
# broadband - Wednesday 8 May, 2019
# National Broadband Plan
# National Broadband Plan
Minister Paschal Donohoe has told the Dáil that no projects would be delayed or in risk because of the plan.
# National Broadband Plan
# National Broadband Plan
Cabinet yesterday signed off on the National Broadband Plan.
# broadband - Sunday 10 March, 2019
# National Broadband Plan
# National Broadband Plan
The National Broadband Plan was due to be finished next year – but work is yet to even start.
# broadband - Tuesday 19 February, 2019
# Warning
# Warning
Gardaí are warning people to be on the alert to a phone scam in which fraudsters claim to be calling from utility companies.
# broadband - Thursday 6 December, 2018
# National Broadband Plan
# National Broadband Plan
That was according to the Secretary General of the Department of Communications Mark Griffin.
# broadband - Tuesday 4 December, 2018
# National Broadband Plan
# National Broadband Plan
Former minister Denis Naughten also addressed the Dáil this evening.
# broadband - Tuesday 27 November, 2018
# Review Published
# Review Published
The review relied on statements by Naughten, David McCourt and others as no formal minutes were taken at these meetings.
# broadband - Thursday 18 October, 2018
# Pressure
# Pressure
The Taoiseach believes Breen’s involvement is not a resigning matter.
# broadband - Wednesday 17 October, 2018
# National Broadband Plan
# National Broadband Plan
The review follows the resignation of Denis Naughten as Communications Minister over his dinners with David McCourt.
# broadband - Tuesday 16 October, 2018
# Broadband Plan
# Broadband Plan
Taoiseach repeated today that he did not think it was a resigning matter.
# broadband - Thursday 11 October, 2018
# Gone
# Gone
He made the announcement in the Dáil this afternoon.
# broadband - Tuesday 18 September, 2018
# National Broadband Plan
# National Broadband Plan
Nokia and enet are part of the consortium’s bid.
# broadband - Monday 30 July, 2018
# Explainer
# Explainer
SSE pulled out of the tendering process yesterday.
# broadband - Sunday 1 July, 2018
# Outage
# Outage
Vodafone has confirmed that there was an issue with the provider’s fixed broadband this morning.
# broadband - Tuesday 6 March, 2018
# Broadband
# Broadband
The ASAI also upheld a complaint against Lidl in relation to a competition it ran.
# broadband - Tuesday 27 February, 2018
# Logging Off
# Logging Off
Conal Henry has stepped down as the CEO of Enet.
# broadband - Wednesday 7 February, 2018
# Not Happening
# Not Happening
Fianna Fáil’s communications spokesman Timmy Dooley had suggested that the procurement process should be halted in order to ‘review’ the tender.
# broadband - Tuesday 6 February, 2018
# Computer Says No
# Computer Says No
Fianna Fáil will tonight ask the government to stall the procurement process and review what has gone wrong in the roll-out of broadband.
# Column
# Column
“I feel like the people of rural Ireland have been let down, with broken promise after broken promise.”
# broadband - Thursday 1 February, 2018
# Connection Disrupted
# Connection Disrupted
“We couldn’t make a business case stack up,” Eir CEO Richard Moat said. “So regrettably, we had to pull out.”
# broadband - Saturday 6 January, 2018
# Computer Says No
# Computer Says No
Rural TDs have hit out against Minister Denis Naughten who admitted it could be up to five years before all connections are done.
# broadband - Wednesday 27 September, 2017
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
Éamon Ó Cuív TD made the claim last week.
# broadband - Tuesday 26 September, 2017
# DOWN THE LINE
# DOWN THE LINE
A number of telecoms companies are bidding for a State contract to bring broadband to 542,000 customers.
# broadband - Tuesday 29 August, 2017
# Rural Broadband
# Rural Broadband
St Kevin’s in Laragh still has to contend with internet speeds of 5mb.
# broadband - Friday 14 April, 2017
# Poor Service
# Poor Service
The company blamed the weather for delivering poor phone services in 2015.
# broadband - Tuesday 4 April, 2017
# Computer Says No
# Computer Says No
Minister Denis Naughten said he is looking to replicate the UK system.
# broadband - Thursday 16 February, 2017
# Offline
# Offline
Just over a third of the premises in Roscommon have access to high-speed broadband.
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