Noel Dempsey (Meath, Fianna Fail)

We had 56,000 subscribers in Ireland at that stage and I set a target of 400,000 by the end of this year. We had 410,000 subscribers as at September of this year and 17,000 new subscribers are coming on the system per month. We have the fastest growing broadband increase of anywhere in Europe. It looks as if we have turned the corner.

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