The Government has said that the rollout of the state-subsidised National Broadband Plan will commence between October and December. The Government has said that the rollout of the state-subsidised National Broadband Plan will commence between October and December. A new statement from the Department of Communications reconfirmed that the Government will sign a contract with the National Broadband Plan’s ‘preferred bidder’ for the €2.9bn National Broadband Plan. However, the start of the rural rollout is still being promised for the last three months of the year. “The rollout will commence in Q4 2019 with significant pre-mobilisation activities on going over the next number of months,” said the government statement.

Source: Irish Independent July 17, 2019 16:41 UTC