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
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.
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Cathaoirleach of the Killaloe Municipal District, Councillor Pat Hayes. Photograph by John Kelly
Calls for connection clarity as one-third of homes and businesses without high-speed broadband
December 18, 2020
CLARITY on when National Broadband Ireland (NBI) will roll out services across Clare is urgently needed, so that people can make decisions around career and college options, a local authority briefing was told this week.
The view was expressed by Councillor Pat Hayes when officials of NBI made a virtual presentation to local authority members to outline current and future progress with the delivery of high-speed broadband to parts of Clare who currently have little to no access.
Eleven Longford primary schools connected to broadband by the end of 2022
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Eleven Longford primary schools are to be connected to broadband by the end of 2022.
The schools are: Scoil Mhuire, Aughnagarron; Killasonna Mixed National School; Naomh Earnain NS Killashee; Muckerstaff National School; Gaigue National School; Scoil Bhríde, Glen; Fermoyle National School; Forgney National School; Saint Patrick’s National School; Cloontagh Mixed National School and Naomh Guasachta National School (Bunlahy).
679 schools nationwide are to be connected in an acceleration of the National Broadband Plan (NBP) announced by the Government and NBI last Thursday, December 10.
Under the originally planned roll out, some schools would have had to wait up to seven years for connection. Now, all schools will be connected within two years.