Over one million working hours lost due to storm damage on phone and broadband lines

 Felled trees which stood for over 100 years line the Marina in Cork city following Storm Ophelia. Damage to  Eir’s infrastructure left more than 11,000 customers without broadband, phone, and mobile services.

Communications regulator Comreg is seeking expert advice on how extreme weather events and other aspects of climate change could affect Ireland’s internet and telecoms networks now and into the future.

Comreg, which regulates companies across the sector, says it wants to identify vulnerabilities within the communications sector that have occurred or may occur due to climate change.