December 10, 2020 12:52 pm It has been announced today (Thursday, December 10) that 679 schools will be connected to high-speed broadband by the end of 2022, in an acceleration of the National Broadband Plan (NBP). Under the originally-planned rollout, some schools were expecting to wait up to seven years for connection. Now, according to the government and National Broadband Ireland (NBI), “all schools will be connected within two years”. Some 70 schools across the country will become broadband connection points (BCPs) by the first quarter of 2021, receiving “150Mb high-speed connectivity for educational access”. The first 25 schools have already been connected. BCPs, delivered under the NBP, will “ensure that primary school pupils in rural Ireland will be able to participate fully in the digital revolution that is taking place”.