It's not just for their own sake that the speed, cost and convenience already mentioned are important. It's what they mean in practice that brings the major benefits.
What Broadband Means
Broadband means access to a wider range of business application and rich media websites (sites with animation, sound and video).
- In the workplace broadband means lower cost and higher productivity. Email messages, for example, can be delivered and received in real time right throughout the day, instead of just once or twice.
Large documents of software upgrades can be downloaded with ease.
- In education, the Broadband for Schools initiative will bring multi-media resources into classrooms and will expose pupils to a wealth of educational opportunities. It will also allow them to become proficient in the use of email, web browsers and the search engines that are now essential tools in today's workplace.
- In healthcare it means opportunities for telemedicine with the promise of remote diagnosis and the electronic transmission of results such as x-rays.
- For home users broadband is nothing less than a gateway to a new digital lifestyle, and to a world of online information and entertainment.
Broadband is rapidly becoming a requirement rather than a luxury in all walks of life.
Broadband has revolutionised the development potential for regional locations. We have ten companies employing over 400 people in a variety of high-value back office roles and hope to grow this number significantly over the next few years. None of this would have been possible without Broadband. John Connolly,
Marketing Director. West Cork Business and Technology Park Clonakilty.
