Minister stands up to commercial broadband operators – Heydon

Fine Gael TD for Kildare South, and Chair of the Party’s Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee, Martin Heydon, has welcomed the requirement by Minister for Communications, Alex White, for commercial operators to sign up to commitment contracts for areas where they wish to provide broadband services. Without these contracts, the areas cannot be removed from the Government High Speed Broadband Map.  The Minister was speaking today (Tuesday) as he formally opened the procurement process for the state intervention to provide high quality, high speed broadband nationwide by 2020.