Eir open to giving broadband commitment to 300,000 homes and businesses

Eir is willing to sign a binding commitment to deliver high-speed fibre broadband to 300,000 homes and businesses at the centre of a year-long tug-of-war between it and the government.

Midway through last year, the company announced that it would provide broadband to an additional 300,000 rural homes and businesses.

This put it on a potential collision course with the government which had counted the premises among the 750,000 the National Broadband Plan (NBP) was to cover.