
The rollout of Gigabit broadband through 100% FTTB connections to towns in the South East such as Gorey and Arklow, will put them in the same league as Tokyo and Hong Kong for broadband connectivity. One of my priorities in the delivery of IFS2020, the Government’s five year strategy to grow our International Financial Services sector, is the development of the sector across the regions.

Obelisk has already successfully delivered fibre optic infrastructure for SIRO in Drogheda, Balbriggan and Swords, for the past two years as part of the rollout of its Gigabit broadband network.Ĭommenting on the announcement, Minister of State at the Department of Finance with special responsibility for Financial Services and Insurance, Michael D’Arcy said: “In my work as Minister, I see how reliant the growth of financial services are on access to high speed connectivity. Obelisk provides solutions and resources to industry across telecommunications, power transmission and distribution, renewable energy and tower infrastructure. Since its establishment in 1996, it has delivered extensively across the UK and Ireland. Obelisk is a Cavan based company with its operations centre in Ballycoolin, Dublin. Ireland joins Gabon and the Ivory Coast as Axione’s third country outside of France. The PINs in which Axione is involved represent approximately €2 billion in investment and serve 7 million people, 6,500 municipalities and 310,000 businesses. As part of the public initiative networks (PINs) led by French local and regional authorities, Axione designs, builds and runs next-generation shared digital infrastructure.

Over the past 10 years it has installed 22,000km of networks to reduce inequality of internet access in France. As a result, over 35,000 homes and businesses in the towns will be able to access SIRO’s network via its retail partners.Īxione, part of the Bouygues Energies and Services Group, operates in digital infrastructure, providing design, build and operating services for mobile and fibre operators and developing public initiative networks (PINs) in partnership with states and public authorities. The contract will see Axione and Obelisk connect ten towns – Gorey, Courtown, Enniscorthy, Newtown-Kilcoole, Wicklow, Arklow, Carrickmines, Shankill, Bray and Greystones – to SIRO’s Gigabit broadband network over the next two years.
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SIRO has announced that it has signed a €20 million contract with the joint venture consortium of French Telecoms Infrastructure company Axione and its local Irish, professional engineering services partner, Obelisk.
