Regions ‘set to benefit from broadband network’

THE head of the company installing a broadband network throughout the country said yesterday that the new system will create huge job opportunities outside Dublin and enhance the existing industrial framework.

Michael Tiernan’s newly formed company E-net is completing the €70 million task of networking 27 towns and cities outside the greater Dublin area with ducts and fibre connections for broadband communications.

The Limerick firm won the Government contract last summer to install and manage the new network which will drastically improve the speed of internet access.