Brussels, 10/03/2006 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission has given the go-ahead to an Irish programme to finance a broadband network, creating open-access Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) in over 120 towns. At a cost of 170 million euro, the programme will offer high-speed broadband services to businesses and citizens in those towns where such an infrastructure is not supplied by market players. The management and exploitation of the networks, which remain in public ownership, will be...