eircom Wholesale has signed a two-year deal worth €20m with Pure Telecom to provide it with wholesale telecoms services.

The partnership will focus on providing high-speed broadband and telephone services to Pure Telecom's business and residential customers across Ireland.

Pure Telecom customers will be able to connect to eircom Wholesale's high-speed fibre broadband, which offers speeds of up to 100Mb/s to 1.2 million homes and businesses nationwide.

Pure Telecom's customers will be amongst the first to access eircom Wholesales 1Gb/s 'Fibre to the Home' (FTTH) service when it launches later this year.

Pure Telecom was established in 2002 and the Irish-owned firm provides fixed line, broadband and cloud telecoms services to Irish businesses and consumers.

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Speaking about the agreement, Paul Connell, director, Pure Telecom, said: “Our industry is changing. Our business customers need faster broadband so they can compete competitively both domestically and internationally.

“Furthermore, consumer demands are increasing. Smartphones, Netflix and social media are among the tools that are redefining the way people communicate and resetting needs and expectations; and not just for city dwellers.

Connell added that Pure Telecom chose eircom Wholesale because of its national reach and the future-proofing of the eircom Wholesale network.

eircom is planning to extend access to high-speed fibre broadband in rural Ireland by extending its fibre network from 1.6 million homes and businesses to 1.9 million nationwide premises.

The additional 300,000 homes and businesses are spread across 1,070 communities in all 26 counties.