Surveying for broadband taking place across Kildare
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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) today announced that surveying works in several areas of Kildare are well underway.
Surveying
NBI contractors have been on the ground across the country for eight months and over 158,000 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.
National Broadband Plan surveying underway in 12 rural Laois areas
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Work to bring fast internet access to broadband blackspots in rural Laois is continuing, the National Broadband Ireland company has stated this week.
Some €49 million will be spent creating the new high-speed fibre broadband network in Laois alone, as part of National Broadband Ireland s contract to roll it out nationwide under the Government’s National Broadband Plan
It announced this week that surveying works in several areas of Laois are well underway. In Laois, there are 12,510 premises in the Intervention Area (IA), which includes homes, farms, commercial businesses and schools. This equates to 31% of all premises in the county. The following areas in Laois are being surveyed: Ballylinan, Lackeragh, Castlewood, Killeen, Glosna, Wolfhill, Knocklaide, Luggacurren, Ballintubbert, Knockbawn, Stradbally, and Vicarstown.