Westmeath/Roscommon Councils agree to facilitate broadband developments in the area

The haulage industry in the Westmeath\ Roscommon region will be glad to hear that documentation regarding the agreement made by the two counties was supplied to councillors recently stressing that broadband infrastructure and service were essential to create conditions for competitve growth in high technology based enterprises.
It explained that the Midlands submission was for a regional broadband ring connecting the main populations centres and metro rings for the five main population centres.

At a recent Meeting of Roscommon Council, County Manager, John Tiernan said he was delighted with the agreement and that Roscommon town was phase one and he had no other information as to when the next phase would be.
Cllr Tom Crosby said that the NRA should be alerted to the initiative and the cable put in while roads were under construction. He then proposed that the County Secretary write to the NRA to have proper ducting done as part of all major road projects in future.

The County manager also stated that the big pay day would be that Roscommon would be in a better position to provide higher grade effective employment.

When the project is completed, it will put the midlands on the technology map and be of great benifit to the haulage industry in telecommunications.