Ireland's Advanced Broadband Performance and Policy Priorities

Advanced broadband services are crucial to achieve the productivity growth necessary to improve competitiveness, sustain high-level incomes and ensure Ireland captures new opportunities for entrepreneurship and jobs across all sectors.

Forfás is concerned that Ireland lags other EU countries and those with which we compete for trade and investment in the provision of widely available competitively priced, advanced broadband services. This paper provides an assessment of how Ireland is performing in meeting the needs of enterprise and what we need to do to deliver advanced broadband services.