School Broadband Stats Show Govt In Dark Ages [waterford-today.ie]
- Published: 24 July 2010
"Irish school children are being left behind our international counter-parts everyday because of a lack of high speed broadband in schools.
"At the rate we are going children in Mongolia will be more prepared for the smart economy than Irish school students.
"The fact that only two per cent of Irish schools have access to high-speed broadband means that the majority of Irish children are not being provided with what is now a vital educational tool - high speed internet access.
"The truth is that high speed broadband is effectively unavailable in Ireland.
"What we have in terms of speed is about 80 times behind India or Japan and about half the speed that is available in France.
"Even Mongolia has better broadband then us!
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