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"In Europe, on-line activities will generate £2.7 billion in revenues this year..

"In Europe, on-line activities will generate £2.7 billion in revenues this year...to grow to an estimated £75 billion by 2001. The Irish marketplace is short on e-commerce entrepreneurs..."

- Mark Beggs, General Manager, Indigo.

"It is all systems go at Esat Telecom and we are ready for this whole brave new world of telecommunications in Ireland"

- Denis O'Brien, Chairman, Esat Telecom, after the announcement of the end of Telecom Eireann's monopoly on voice telephony.

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