When then minister for communications Pat Rabbitte launched the National Broadband Plan (NBP) in 2012, he described it as “rural electrification for the 21st century”. What did the National Broadband Plan promise? Big statements on broadband were not born with the NBP: Rabbitte’s predecessor Eamon Ryan claimed in 2010 that Ireland would have “broadband everywhere” by 2012. In 2013, the Government hired experts to “assist in the design, planning and procurement” of a State-led investment in high-speed broadband. Weren’t telecoms companies connecting homes to high-speed broadband anyway?

Source: The Irish Times February 01, 2018 19:41 UTC