The Communications Minister added that a huge amount of investigation has gone into the final tendering process of the National Broadband Plan.
People in rural Ireland should expect to see an improvement in mobile phone and broadband coverage this year.
Imagine Communications has announced its plans to bring high-speed broadband to 1 million homes and businesses across Ireland within the next 18 months.
Michael Ring has said tens of thousands more homes could have been hooked up to high-speed broadband by now if mistakes had been avoided in the roll-out of the National Broadband plan.
Eir has defended its roll-out of high-speed rural broadband despite fewer than one in five homes and premises covered by the service actually connecting up to it.
Broadband bidder David McCourt should be made to "suffer the consequences" for breaking procurement rules by repeatedly meeting ex-communications minister Denis Naughten during the crucial tender process, according to Fianna Fáil.
The author of the Denis Naughten broadband report has admitted the ex-minister's multiple meetings with bidder David McCourt broke the rules "in the strictest sense" - but has denied any wrongdoing took place.
Former Minister for Communications, Denis Naughten, has hit out by the lack of support he got from Taoiseach Leo Varadkar ahead of being asked to consider his position.
Former Minister for Communications Denis Naughten says that his main objective during meetings with US businessman David McCourt was that his consortium Granahan- McCourt remained a bidder for the National Broadband Plan.
New information on a controversial New York meeting between former minister for communications Denis Naughten and businessman David McCourt has emerged.
The Government-backed investigation into the Denis Naughten broadband lobbying crisis has been labelled a whitewash after it cleared him of wrongdoing despite having to “rely” on his own word to draw the conclusion.
Ex-communications minister Denis Naughten has broken his silence on the broadband meetings controversy which forced him to resign from office, saying he has been cleared by the Government report into the scandal.
The Government-commissioned report into the broadband lobbying fiasco has concluded that the project has not been damaged by Denis Naughten’s serial meetings with the only bidder in the process.
An independent report into the future of the National Broadband Plan will be published today.
The Government should take back control of plans for a national broadband network says economics lecturer Donal Palcic.
The Taoiseach says the report into the National Broadband Plan procurement process will be published in a matter of days.
It has been revealed that just one in seven homes in rural Ireland that have been offered high-speed broadband by Eir have taken it up.
The independent auditor reviewing the National Broadband Plan is to examine new documents that have emerged from the Department of Communications.
Two more meetings between former Communications Minister Denis Naughten and businessman David McCourt have been revealed following the National Broadband Plan controversy.
The junior communications minister says he is confident the tendering process for the National Broadband Plan will be able to continue.