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Surveying works are well underway in several areas of Longford as part of a €34 million high speed broadband investment in the county. Surv...
Business Editor The head of the company responsible for rolling out the National Broadband Plan (NBP) has said it is looking at opportunities to accelerate the seven-year building programme. But the chief executive of National Broadband Ireland, Peter Hendrick, indicated that getting sufficient skills could be a difficulty. "In doing so, there are some challenges ahead in terms of getting people into the country, resources, training-up," he said. "There are lots of students and graduates, getting them trained under apprenticeships. Many of our industry partners have started that process and i...
Surveying for broadband taking place across Kildare Reporter: '); 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 e...
Clare T.D. Michael McNamara has expressed his disappointment at the “frustratingly slow” roll out of a high speed and future proofed broadband network across County Clare as part of the National Broadband Plan (NBP) State led Intervention. Deputy McNamara was speaking ahead of a briefing by National Broadband Ireland (NBI) to Clare County Council this Mondayat which the CEO Peter Hendrick will outline the NBI’s deployment plan for Clare. “I have been informed by NBI that properties in just four Clare locations, all in the southeast of the county, are expected to benefit from new fibre...
679 schools will be connected to broadband by the end of 2022 in an acceleration of the National Broadband Plan (NBP) announced today by the Government and NBI. Under the originally-planned rollout, some schools would have had to wait up to seven years for connection. Now, all schools will be connected within two years. Some 70 schools across the country in the Intervention Area will become Broadband Connection Points (BCPs), by the end of Q1 2021, receiving 150mb high-speed connectivity for educational access. The first 25 schools have already been connected, incuding Achonry Nat...