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Vodafone to Use Electricity Poles to Roll Out Irish Fibre Network

July 2, 2014 /

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Vodafone is to build a fibre broadband network across Ireland, using the overhead and underground infrastructure of the country’s Electricity Supply Board to connect 500,000 premises in 50 towns.

The British group, the world’s second largest mobile operator, said it would invest 450 million euros ($612 million) to build a network that will offer speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second, helping to improve connection speeds in rural Ireland.

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