Government's deal with broadband providers to help students doesn't cover Zoom or Microsoft websites

The government's deal with broadband providers to help students study and work from home does not cover popular Zoom or Microsoft websites.

A number of third-level institutions and schools have alerted their representatives that a majority of the sites that students are actually using for their online studies, such as teleconference platform Zoom, Youtube and Microsoft, are not included in the government's plan that educational sites would be "zero rated" by broadband providers.