HAVING ALREADY netted a deal with the FAI to put wireless antennae on floodlights at football pitches around Ireland, Shared Access chief executive Chris Jackman has now signed an agreement with fuel group Topaz to install masts at its service stations across the country.
These will be rented to various mobile operators, with Topaz set to earn about €1 million in ground rent a year.
“We’ve signed a deal with Topaz to develop shared telecoms infrastructure at petrol stations,” Jackman told me. “There’s around 270 locations in the deal. If we could develop 100 of those that would be a great result for them and us.”
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IT MIGHT be headquartered in Britain and operating mostly in Africa, but Tullow Oil continues to expand its Irish base, where it employs 100 staff.
Chief executive Aidan Heavey tells me that it is in the process of moving to a new office in Sandyford, doubling its square footage in the process.
“We’re recruiting on a daily basis,” he said. “We’ve just hired four new people. Dublin has become a technical centre for us. The team here handles all our seismic operations worldwide. We also run South America from here. This business is growing quite a lot.”
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MICHAEL DAWSON’S Gift Voucher Shop (GVS) continues to prosper. The company behind the One4all brand has won a gong at the prestigious international Prepaid Awards in London.
