After the government signed the National Broadband Plan contract with National Broadband Ireland (NBI) on Tuesday, both partners face twin tasks of equal importance: deliver high-speed internet connections to 537,596 premises in the next seven years; and do so in a significantly more transparent way than the process conducted since the initial government decision to subsidise rural connectivity seven years ago. To avoid a repeat of the controversies that led to years of delay, endless debates on the merits of the approach chosen and the resignation of former Minister for Communications Denis Naughten, several things need to happen in the…

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