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Eircom expands planned national fibre roll-out
2013-11-29 10:39:00| Telecompaper Headlines
(Telecompaper) Irish operator Eircom has announced an increase to its planned national fibre footprint from 1.2 million homes and businesses to 1.4 million homes and businesses across the country. As a result, 70 percent of the country will have access to fibre broadband speeds of up to 100 Mbps by July 2016. The fibre roll-out programme is currently ahead of schedule and the company is on track to pass 700,000 premises by end-2013. This announcement means that an additional 562 communities across all 26 counties will get access to the eFibre service.
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