Taxpayers may have to cough up thousands to pay for fibre broadband.
The National Broadband Plan (NBP) is due to be rolled out this autumn and it's expected the €3billion bill will be subsidised by the taxpayer.
Each householder will pay an average of €5,000 over 25 years, Independent.ie reports.
The Government has vowed to bring high-speed internet to every home and business in the country but it could take up to seven years to connect the most remote parts of the country.
A new company National Broadband Ireland (NBI) will be set up and it will utilise the existing network of Eir telephone poles to bring cables around the country.
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The aim of the NBP is to bring high-speed, quality broadband to more than 1.1 million homes and businesses – 540,000 individual premises in total – in under a decade.
It is being backed by the Government because it would not be commercially viable for private companies to connect these to networks.
The plan aims to provide fibre broadband to 98% of all premises with speeds starting from 150mb/s, rising to 500mb/s over the next decade for residential properties and much higher for businesses.
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However, the remaining 2% may have to put up an alternative wireless offering due to location or cost factors.
A target of connecting 133,000 homes in the first two years has been set and up to 70,000 to 100,000 houses will be added each year onwards.
The plan would see rural Ireland becoming the best-connected area in Europe with better internet connection than Dublin and regional cities which will be dependent on older infastructure.
