Murphy: Eircom network outage ‘unacceptable’

The network outage that affected thousands of Eircom customers last week has been branded as ‘unacceptable’ by European Affairs Minister Dara Murphy, who suggested such failures could threaten Ireland’s international reputation.

The junior minister said service failures like that experienced by customers last Wednesday were not good enough in an increasingly connected world, and called on Eircom to invest in their network to prevent reoccurrences.

Commenting on the wide-scale outage which the company said affected 5% of its total network traffic, Mr Murphy said reliable networks are one of the key components of the country’s reputation as a global technology hub which has brought thousands of jobs to these shores.