Fibre broadband rollout nears completion near Dungarvan

National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the company delivering e new future-proofed, high-speed Fibre-to-the-Home network under the Government’s National Broadband Plan (NBP) today announced that construction is underway to deliver high-speed broadband to over 2,200 homes, farms and businesses in the Dungarvan deployment areas in Co Waterford.

This includes the rural surrounds of Dungarvan, Ardmore and Clonea.

16,000 premises in Co Waterford are included in the State’s Intervention Area, which will see NBI deliver minimum speeds of 500 megabits per second to homes, businesses, farms, and schools.

As the biggest investment in rural Ireland since rural electrification, Co Waterford will receive €59M of Government investment under the National Broadband Plan.

Having successfully completed the survey and design phase of the project, 2,236 Waterford premises in the Dungarvan deployment area are under construction to have high-speed fibre network, due to be connected by the end of the year.

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The National Broadband Ireland website is regularly updated to show estimated connection dates.

Works have already been completed in other parts of Waterford and surrounding areas, such as the rural surrounds of Ballinamult and Tallow.

There is a total of 10,903 premises that can now order or pre-order high-speed, reliable broadband across the county, with 3,884 premises already connected to the network. 

NBI has now passed over 346,000 homes, farms and businesses in rural Ireland with over 120,000 of these now connected to high-speed broadband. The average take-up rate of 33% is well ahead of projections and international comparisons and surpasses 50% in areas of the country where the network has been live for 18 months.

Keep up to Speed!  

NBI is encouraging people to check their eligibility and register for updates at www.nbi.ie to receive regular notifications related to their own premises as works progress in their area.  

Broadband Connection Points

In advance of the Fibre-to-the-Home rollout, the NBP provides for the delivery of Broadband Connection Points (BCPs) nationwide. 955 of these sites, including Public BCPs, are now ‘live’. Public BCPs – which include sports clubs, community centres and tourist sites – will provide free public access to high-speed internet in the rollout area. Other BCP categories include schools and marts.

BCPs will pave the way for rural communities to receive the benefits of broadband, from mobile working, e-learning and mobile banking, to digital tourism. You can view BCPs at www.nbi.ie/bcp-map/. An example of some of the locations of Broadband Connection Points in Waterford include Ballysaggart Community Centre, Knockanore Community Centre and Modeligo Community Hall. Primary schools in the Intervention Area are now connected for educational access as part of the NBP.