IBEC's Telecommunications Industry Federation (TIF) will draw up a name-and-shame list of local authorities who are delaying the deployment of broadband infrastructure.
Senior directors of the TIF yesterday blamed planning and procedural inconsistencies among the State's local authorities for delays in the deployment of broadband infrastructure.
Mr Tommy McCabe, a director of TIF, said there was a slowing down in the process of laying broadband telecoms infrastructure and this would impact on the State's competitiveness.
He said some local authorities were engaging in an "appalling practice" of looking at the process of laying infrastructure as a new form of taxation.
Mr Willie Fagan, director of public policy at Chorus, said the actions of some local authorities could lead to the quadrupling of costs for laying cable.
The organisation called on the Government to introduce legislation to impose mandatory obligations on local and planning authorities in their dealings with network operators.
