Cork Chamber, through its policy team and key subject matter experts from within our membership identified the need to deliver high quality, future proofed Tier-1 international connectivity to ensure businesses located in southern Ireland are competitive. Due to a myriad of obstacles to the country’s national broadband infrastructure, including high Cork-Dublin Backhaul costs, Cork Chamber believed strongly that any improvements to a national network which are not adequately connected internationally would be in vain. Subsequently, Cork Chamber developed and advocated strong economic arguments, at a regional and national level, for bringing Tier 1 international connectivity to Cork and thus a second national access point for the country amongst key economic policy decision-makers.