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Connecting a Nation - The story of telecommunications in Ireland (Paperback)
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Connecting a Nation - The story of telecommunications in Ireland (Paperback)
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Ireland is abuzz with telecommunications. Walk up any street from
Dublin to Dingle and every second person is head-down in their
mobile phone. Everywhere we are bombarded with deals for fibre-this
and wireless-that. The nation's software industry includes nine of
the world's top ten tech firms and generates EURO50 billion in
annual exports. Sitting silently around Dublin is a necklace of
unmarked data centres, storing everything from airline bookings to
our personal videos of cute cats. Even more anonymous are the 17
underwater cables stretching out from the coastline, carrying text
messages, phone calls and internet data to and from the rest of the
world. Across the country a programme to connect over half a
million rural homes to the internet by fibre is rolling out. And
yet it wasn't so long ago that Ireland was a largely agrarian
society with a two-year waiting list just to get a landline phone
installed. How did we get from that old-world Ireland to this
modern super-connected one? Connecting a Nation tells this story -
a story not just of cables, exchanges, SIM cards and broadband but
of how telecommunications has played a pivotal role in the
development of the country from 1852 to the present.
Telecommunications is intimately bound up with politics and
economics, with place and people. Connecting a Nation illustrates
these interconnections by drawing on personal stories, from the
first day of work for an operator at Dublin's new telephone
exchange in 1881, via the painful process of getting a phone
installed in the 1970s, to the Ryanair website created by two
students that ignited the digital revolution in Ireland. Connecting
the past to the present, Connecting a Nation offers an insider's
perspective on how the decisions of the past continue to shape who
we are as individuals - and as a nation.
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