Smart Telecom broadband service signs up 20,000 users in two months

MORE than 20,000 customers have signed up for Smart Telecom’s broadband high-speed internet package in the eight weeks since it was launched, the company said yesterday.

The sign-up rate has catapulted Smart up the table in the race to sign up new broadband customers and means the company will easily beat its original target of 30,000 customers by the end of the year. Smart’s product has the advantage of being faster than most rivals’ basic broadband offerings.

It is one of the small number of broadband providers that do not rely on Eircom’s technology to reach customers. Chief executive Oisin Fanning said Smart offered cheaper broadband access that was up to four times as fast as other providers.