Satellite broadband will soon be way above fibre optics

It’ll be beamed back to us much more efficiently than it can be transmitted via underground cables, writes Niall Smith.

The announcement that the National Broadband Plan (NBP) will be rolled out later this year should be a cause for celebration. Yet concerns expressed by the secretary general of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform about the cost of the project, and about the lack of compatibility with the spatial strategy outlined in Project Ireland 2040, make for uneasy reading.