Plan to expand broadband warmly welcomed

Enet, the company which holds the concession to manage, maintain and operate the State’s Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) across 93 cities and towns, has warmly welcomed the call by Forfás in their broadband benchmarking report to have the MANs in Cork and Waterford expanded.

In its report, ‘Ireland’s Broadband Performance and Policy Actions’, Forfás also called for the construction of new Metropolitan Area Networks in the five National Spatial Strategy centres – Shannon, Ennis, Mallow, Tuam and Castlebar – that don’t have a MAN.