Minister for Rural and Community Development, Heather Humphreys, and Minister of State, Ossian Smyth, hosted the Mobile Phone and Broadband Taskforce National Stakeholder Forum. The annual event is an opportunity for stakeholders across the public, private and community sectors to discuss issues relating to broadband, mobile phone coverage and connectivity. There was a
Galway County Council and the Government of Ireland are pleased to announce the launch of Galway County’s Broadband Connection Point network. At present 12 BCPs under the Connected Communities Initiative are live in the county with a further 10 to follow. Connected Communities is an initiative of the Government of Ireland, in partnership with Vodafone […]
Poor rural broadband connectivity is a major problem for local businesses, according to a study from Big Red Cloud, a cloud accounting software business. The survey of more than 250 small businesses states that 96 percent of SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) say they believe they’re at a competitive disadvantage due to poor connectivity in […]