The organisation represents electronic communications as is part of employers\u2019 group Ibec.<\/p>\n
Nicola Cooke, is a former journalist and public relations consultant, she previously led corporate communications with NBI (National Broadband Ireland) and Bus \u00c9ireann.<\/p>\n
Elaine Carey, the new chair of the TII Council, is currently the CEO of Three Ireland, and was formerly the chief commercial officer for Three Ireland and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n
Members of TII include providers of broadband, broadcasting, cable, fixed, mobile, satellite and wireless internet as well as tower companies, network providers and equipment manufacturers, it said.<\/p>\n
They comprise of large industry players such as Three, Vodafone, Sky, Eir, and Virgin Media.<\/p>\n
Firms in the telecom sector have invested approximately \u20ac5bn in Irish communications infrastructure over the past eight years, it said.<\/p>\n
The sector provides high quality employment to 24,000 people in Ireland, and supports thousands more jobs through the \u20ac2.7bn it pays annually to suppliers in Ireland for various goods and services.<\/p>\n
It is a crucial time in Ireland\u2019s digital transformation, with investment in world class broadband by telecom operators, Elaine Carey says.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur mobile and broadband networks are world-class, and that is down to the significant investment that telecommunications operators and broadband providers have put into them.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese networks are critical infrastructure for our country.\u201d<\/p>\n
However the rise in artificial intelligence (AI) means that all sectors within telecoms needs to make the most of its benefits, says the new director Nicola Cooke.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlmost every sector will need to digitise and embrace the benefits and efficiencies of AI, if they are to remain competitive into the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is the Government\u2019s stated ambition for Ireland to be at the forefront of European and global digital developments, and we want them to work more closely with TII to achieve this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Cooke has also been appointed as director of Audiovisual Ireland, the Ibec representative group for the screen industry (animation, independent film and television production, postproduction, television broadcasting and VFX).<\/p>\n
The sector employs approximately 16,000 full-time equivalent jobs (FTEs) and has an estimated Gross Value Added in excess of \u20ac1bn and is a key part of national cultural life and profiles Ireland as a destination for tourism, it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The organisation represents electronic communications as is part of employers\u2019 group Ibec. Nicola Cooke, is a former journalist…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-50893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}