Life After Copper: Ireland’s Fibre-Only Future

About this episode

The episode discusses Ireland's transition to a fibre-only future and the implications of moving away from copper connectivity.

Episode 1114 Our feature guest this week is Patrick Masterson, MD of Magnet+, who looks at Ireland’s transition to a fibre-only nation by 2030 and what the death of copper means for your connectivity. Before that, in the news it’s a huge “Big Tech” results week but Dusty fears it could be the beginning of the end. We look at who delivered and who is coasting on hype. We also focus on the Irish IT workplace, where recent data shows 60% of IT pros are hitting a breaking point due to scope creep and legacy system headaches. —----- Listen to Tech Radio now on Apple, Spotify and YouTube https://www.podfollow.com/tech

People in this episode

Host: Dusty

Guest: Patrick Masterson

Topics covered

• fibre-only future
• copper transition
• Big Tech results
• Irish IT workplace
• scope creep
• legacy systems

Keywords

• fibre
• copper
• connectivity
• Big Tech
• IT professionals
• scope creep
• legacy systems

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Magnet+, Big Tech

Places: Ireland

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