Surveying for National Broadband Plan continues across Offaly
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National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the company rolling out the new high-speed fibre broadband network under the Government’s National Broadband Plan (NBP) has announced that surveying works in several areas of Offaly are well underway.
NBI contractors have been on the ground across the country for thirteen months and over 191,000 premises nationwide have been surveyed to date. This involves physically walking the routes and documenting images, notes and measurements of the poles, cables and underground ducts in each area.
This will enable network design solutions for the provision of a fibre network to every premises in the Intervention Area – a map of over 544,000 premises nationwide identified by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communication (DECC) - as not being served with adequate broadband speeds. The first premises have been successfully connected under the NBP in parts o
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A rural valley in County Kerry could have access to Starlink internet from tech billionaire Elon Musk “within a matter of weeks.”
For nearly two years now, Musk-owned SpaceX has been launching fleets of internet satellites into low-Earth orbit in a bid to bring internet to the most remote locations in the world.
The company has already launched 1,035 satellites with launches planned throughout the year expected to bring that number to 12,000.
This morning, it emerged that the company is in talks with Kerry County Council to run a pilot project in the Black Valley, around 32km from Killarney.
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Work underway to ensure Leitrim homes and businesses are connected to high speed broadband
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Work is underway to ensure Leitrim homes and businesses will be connected under the Government’s plan for high speed broadband, Fine Gael TD, Frank Feighan, has said.
Minister for State at the Department of Health and local Fine Gael TD Frank Feighan said: “Homes and businesses in Leitrim will be connected to high speed broadband under the Government’s National Broadband Plan, for which survey work is underway despite the challenges of the pandemic.
“The Broadband Connection Points (BCPs) initiative will see publicly accessible sites in rural and isolated parts of County Leitrim provided with a temporary high-speed broadband connection by National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the company contracted to deliver the NBP. Many points have been connected already.
Parents homeschooling kids battle broadband issues in rural areas
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While the internet has slowly but surely become a more constant thread of our everyday lives, the lockdown has seen it turn from being an added comfort to a necessity as much so as running water and electricity.
The pandemic has seen a significant rise in the need for a strong internet connection as people begin turning their back rooms into home offices and their kitchens into makeshift classrooms as we try to keep some normality in our lives.
Geraldine Marron is one of thousands of parents facing into another period of home schooling her children, something that has become impossible to provide properly as she battles daily with the poor internet connection in her home on the main Dundalk to Carrickmacross road.