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Three refunds €335,000 after 29,000 customers were overcharged

Tens of thousands of users of the phone network were overcharged when their local calls, while roaming, were charged as if they were dialling internationally

ESRI behavioural study aims to tackle lack of public interest in high-speed broadband

Behavioural experts to investigate why people are so slow to connect after fewer than 6,000 sign up to NBP network

Phone and broadband providers could face tough penalties under new law

Communications regulator ComReg is to be granted additional powers, including imposing large fines, for breaches of regulation and service failures

Comreg alleges Eir exploited pandemic to overcharge customers

The communications regulator is seeking to impose a record fine of €11.5 million on the telecoms company

Virgin’s €200m network upgrade is a ‘big vote of confidence’

Chief executive Tony Hanway says moving more than one million broadband customers to fibre over the next three years will ‘future-proof’ the network

Siro to offer two-gigabit broadband to its customers in 2022

The broadband provider will not be operating in the areas covered by the National Broadband Plan, but will compete against Eir, which is rolling out its own fibre network

National Broadband Ireland off the pace to meet connections targets

NBI has passed 17,000 of the targetted 60,000 premises to date meaning it will have to make the network available to 43,000 by the turn of the year

Siro to launch ‘Ireland’s fastest ever broadband’ in Kilkenny

The two-gigabit fibre broadband service will be made available to more than 400,000 homes and businesses across the country

5,000 to get ‘alternative’ to fibre broadband

Rural broadband rollout might connect ‘difficult to reach or high-cost premises’ using other technologies such as wireless, spokesman says

Eir to add 200,000 more homes and businesses to its fibre broadband network

The expansion will bring the number of premises on the newer fibre-to-the-home network to 1.9 million as demand rises thanks to the pandemic

Rural broadband rollout to take two years less than planned

The state has formally requested an accelerated process from National Broadband Ireland, with just 632 homes connected to the fibre network by mid-June of this year

Ryan: state aid complaints won‘t derail broadband rollout

The Minister for Communications said he was ‘very confident’ that the National Broadband Plan met state aid requirements

‘Schools’ broadband hubs won’t be open to public use

Interim connection points in the National Broadband Plan rollout were initially intended to boost wifi for all users

No penalties for delay in rollout of National Broadband Plan

State confirms private firm NBI will not be penalised for missing deadline to build promised infrastructure by year’s end

Huawei executive says he has “no idea” about links to Uighur detention camps

In response to an Australian report, the tech giant says it is unaware of how its ‘general purpose’ products are used once sold

The highs and lows of Ireland’s 5G rollout

Last week, Three exuberantly entered the Irish 5G market using Ericsson technology. Meanwhile, US pressure resulted in Huawei being blocked in yet another territory, as new German rules excluded the Chinese telcoms giant

ESB may be asked to help with broadband roll-out

Utility was one of the original bidders for National Broadband Plan, and access to its infrastructure could speed up the pace of deploying network

Comreg completes report into 94 broadband networks

Communications minister Ryan receives report over Enet‘s compliance with code of practice for state-owned networks

US and China: Ireland facing a tough battle to have it both ways

In the week that TikTok announced plans to invest $500m in its first European data centre here and the US administration intensified its campaign against Chinese giant Huawei, Ireland finds itself facing some diplomatically tricky decisions

Telecoms firms cry foul over Eir wholesale broadband rates

The company denies competitor claims that it is ‘over-recovering’ costs from roll-out of infrastructure