The government’s national broadband plan (NBP) to extend high-speed broadband to all of rural Ireland over the next five years was welcomed today by enet chief executive Conal Henry at the official launch of a 1Gb/s fibre network project serving 340 premises in Ballyseedy, Co. Kerry.
The North Kerry project cost €650,000 and is enet’s showcase project for the National Broadband Plan.
“We’re not here today to promise what we will do, but to demonstrate what we have done. We’ve funded and built this local network, and families here are now enjoying genuinely world class broadband services. Furthermore, end users have a range of service providers to choose from, a fact that is facilitated by our open access model,” said Henry.
Already there are four retail service providers – Bbnet, Kernet, Permanet and Ripplecom – offering broadband services to the householders over enet’s network. Other service providers are also expected to start offering services to local householders and businesses in the coming weeks and months.
Henry also highlighted the impact of enet’s management of the State-owned 94 metropolitan area networks (MANs) broadband platforms across the country, which were built to stimulate competition.
“We have removed the reliance on network ransom-strips by creating a real alternative and operating a genuinely open-access network that any service providers can utilise,” he said. “And while open-access is now on everybody’s lips, at enet it’s been a way of life for over a decade. Every day, we make it easier and cheaper for over 60 different telecoms service providers to offer world-class broadband to over 600,000 individuals, homes and businesses all across the country.”
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