Make broadband universal by law, says TD

A Labour Party TD has come out and said that the government should force Eircom to provide broadband to whoever has a phone line. Tommy Broughan says that the company's Universal Service Obligation, which applies to telephone lines and services, should be extended to cover broadband. He argues that a proposal within the European Commission to do just this has been ignored by the governement. For its part, Eircom is known to view this sort of proposal as "crazy".