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A Co Cork family have become the first in the country whose home has been connected to National Broadband Ireland s high-speed fibre broadband network under the National Broadband Plan.
The company was awarded the contract and up to €2.7bn in State investment to extend high-speed fibre broadband to over one million people in areas not covered by existing commercial operators.
The O Connor family live in Shanbally in Co Cork, half way between Carrigaline and Ringaskiddy.
Since they set up home there six years ago, their broadband through a copper wire cable only allowed download speeds of five megabits per second, not even enough for home schooling.
First premises connected in National Broadband Plan roll-out
Work is currently underway to deliver the new high-speed fibre network to almost 20,000 premises across Cork, Cavan, Galway and Limerick.
After several years of delays and complications, the first premises have been successfully connected to the new high-speed fibre-to-the-home network under the National Broadband Plan.
Today (22 January) National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the company delivering the network on behalf of the Irish Government, announced that premises in Cork and Cavan have been successfully connected. The first connections in Limerick and Galway are also expected in the coming weeks.
‘Access to a new high-speed fibre network will be transformative for communities and businesses across Ireland, especially in light of the pandemic’
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The National Broadband Plan can make Ireland the “gold standard for the world to look at” in terms of rural rejuvenation.
In a bonus episode of
Tech Talk with Jess Kelly, the chair of the company rolling out the rural broadband network said Ireland can “lead the world” in addressing the rural talent drain.
National Broadband Ireland Chairman David McCourt talked to Jess after the O’Connor family in County Cork became the first family to be hooked up to the network.
National Broadband Plan can make Ireland gold standard for rural rejuvenation
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“This is the first actual customer that’s being connected to the network,” he said.
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.
Progress continuing on county Kildare broadband plan says company
Almost half of county not well served by broadband says National Broadband Ireland company
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Surveying works in several areas of Kildare are well underway for the implementation of the national broadband plan (NBP), according to National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the company rolling out the new high-speed fibre broadband network.
NBI said contractors have been on the ground across Ireland for eight months and over 150,000 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 ade