Broadband Roll-out
As of 2nd quarter 2006, 370,000 customers had broadband, 260,000 on DSL and the others on a mix of FWA, cable and satellite. (Comreg, Q1 2006, Page 19).
On 1 November 2007, Eircom announced their 500,000th DSL customer. In terms of speed and availability, Eircom exchanges can only deliver broadband to houses within 5 km (3.1 mi) in most of its exchanges and will not be investing in fibre optic or next-generation broadband, as stated in a meeting with members of Dáil Éireann in late 2008 about broadband availability. In 2011 Eircom announced that they would invest €100 million on high speed fibre optic lines which would be delivered as a pilot scheme to customers in Dublin and Wexford and the speeds will be 150Mbit/s the fastest in Ireland.
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