e|net has announced that Level 3 Communications, Inc. a leading international provider of fibre-based communications services, have extended their network into regional Ireland via the MANs.

e|net, Ireland’s largest open access network operator and the company responsible for managing the State’s fibre-optic Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs), has welcomed the passage of new legislation which gives the National Roads Authority (NRA) the power to grant telecoms companies access to ducting running along the country’s motorways and other primary roads.