Efforts to speed up national broadband roll-out
Business Editor The head of the company responsible for rolling out the National Broadband Plan (NBP) has said it is looking at opportunities to accelerate the seven-year building programme. But the chief executive of National Broadband Ireland, Peter Hendrick, indicated that getting sufficient skills could be a difficulty. "In doing so, there are some challenges ahead in terms of getting people into the country, resources, training-up," he said. "There are lots of students and graduates, getting them trained under apprenticeships. Many of our industry partners have started that process and i...