National Broadband Plan marks 30k connections nationwide
National Broadband Ireland (NBI) has rolled out 30,000 connections under the National Broadband Plan to date. NBI and Minister Ossian Smyth marked the milestone at Steineberg Fireplaces in Waterford, which recently joined the network, availing of gigabit fibre service from Vodafone.
In the last six months, the number of connections to the National Broadband Ireland network has doubled, with 30,000 homes, farms and businesses now connected to its high-speed fibre network.
It now has connections in each of the 26 counties and 118,000 premises are ready to connect by signing up with one of its 60 retail partners.
“We’re hearing back from connected customers that minimum speeds of 500Mb/s are transformational, for businesses looking to expand and diversify, and for families accessing multiple devices online at the same time,” said Peter Hendrick, chief executive officer, National Broadband Ireland.
Ossian Smyth, Minister of State for Communications, added: “National Broadband Ireland has now passed more than 118,000 premises across every county and has connected more than 30,000premises to their full fibre network.
“I am happy to report that, through a combination of significant private and public investment, full fibre broadband subscriptions have increased to over 463,000, representing nearly 19.5% coverage of all homes and businesses in the State. This is increasing at a rapid rate as networks continue to be rolled out and upgraded. The government’s objective is that by 2028, through a combination of investment by commercial operators and the National Broadband Plan, every premises in Ireland will have access to Gigabit broadband.”
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