Timeline for broadband challenging, says Eir chief

The timeline for the remaining bidder to deliver the National Broadband Plan (NBP) is “challenging”, according to the chief executive of Eir, which pulled out of the project this year.

Speaking to The Sunday Business Post last week, Carolan Lennon said bringing broadband to every home in Ireland would be difficult and that some countries had accepted it wasn’t possible to have 100 per cent of the population covered by fibre.

Eir pulled ...