Ministers Announce Completion of HEAnet High Speed Broadband Programme for Second Level Schools
The Minister for Education and Skills, Jan O’Sullivan TD, and the Minister for Communications Alex White TD, today announced that the roll-out of high-speed (100Mbps) broadband to all post-primary schools has been completed, after the final
Satellite Broadband can Cut the Digital Divide [Audio]
Today's podcast is an interview with Patrick Sullivan, an economic development consultant who has worked on broadband strategy in Wales and Ireland. He's part of a partnership of organisations behind Project SABER (SAtellite Broadband for European Regions),
Postscript Podcast [Audio]
Here's a short 'postscript podcast' (9:08; 5MB; MP3) recorded by Michele and I after we said goodbye to Ray King, our guest from this morning's episode. We chat about the ESB/Vodafone FTTH announcement, and Ireland's showing in the latest
Ireland in Top Ten for Internet Broadband, but 35% are in the Slow Lane
Announcing their new fibre-to-the-home joint venture yesterday, ESB and Vodafone made reference to the quarterly reports on the State of the Internet, published by content delivery network, Akamai, and expressed confidence that their venture would propel Ireland "into the ranks of
ESB & Vodafone €450m Joint Venture will bring Fast Fibre to Regional Towns
ESB and Vodafone today signed a joint venture agreement to invest €450 million in building a 100% fibre-to-the-building (or fibre-to-the-home, FTTH) broadband network offering speeds from 200 Mbps to 1000 Mbps which it claims will propel Ireland
Interview with Alex Salter, CEO, SamKnows [Audio]
Last week's announcement that broadband measurement company SamKnows were coming to Ireland, generated a lot of interest. So we invited their CEO, Alex Salter, to join us for a podcast (18:24,10.5MB,MP3). Alex explained the background of the company,
