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Up to 3,851 homes and businesses are now set to reap the benefits of broadband as 3, Ireland's largest high-speed network has completed the rollout of the National Broadband Scheme (NBS) in County Westmeath. Twenty-six electoral districts in the county were chosen for the scheme and are now covered.

The CEO of a Mullingar-based digital company has called on the Government to invest in the digital economy, saying it is crucial to build on digital infrastructure in order to secure a successful economic future

Broadband connectivity is currently being rolled out in Kilkenny as a result of the National Broadband Scheme (NBS).

Following an admission by Minister Eamon Ryan that the Government’s scheme to ensure nationwide access to broadband will not be completed until 2010, Councillor Patsy O’Brien has again raised the issue at a local level.

Following a recent ComReg proposal, rural dwellers and the farming community could be charged more for their phones and broadband than city dwellers.

The Western Development Commission has welcomed the Government’s National Broadband Scheme which will see broadband rolled out to all parts of the western region by September 2010.

Cllr Mary Hilda Cavanagh has welcomed the announcement that over 90 per cent of county Kilkenny will have broadband access within the next two years. She warned however that big promises had been made by government before but had not been delivered upon.

Students in four local post-primary schools are to benefit from access to high-speed broadband as part of a new Government project.

The potential of the National Broadband Scheme currently being rolled out across Ireland by communications company 3 could help transform rural life in County Mayo according to an economic impact report by well known economist Jim Power. The report says that if a high quality and affordable broadband offering like the NBS were to result in the creation of one new SME employing 10 people in each electoral district in Mayo, the economic and financial benefits to the county would be very significant. It would result in the creation of 1,120 jobs; it would result in a net wage injection of €26.9 million into the local economy, which would have an income multiplier effect of up to €53.76 million. It would result in a contribution of €6.72 million to the exchequer, and €896,000 per annum to the local authority. In total it could result in an injection of up to €61.4 million to the local and national economy per annum. Over a five-year period, this would have a net present value of €267.6 million.

A south Mayo county councillor has received confirmation that Eircom will not be upgrading the local Hollymount exchange, but that Hollymount will now come under the National Broadband Scheme. This means that the Government and the mobile network 3 will now be including the area in its rollout of broadband wireless technology in 2010.