Fibre broadband roll-out expands in Mayo

NATIONAL Broadband Ireland (NBI), the company rolling out the National Broadband Plan, has announced that 2,000 Mayo homes and businesses have made further progress through its high-speed fibre roll-out.

Over 700 premises in NBI’s Belclare deployment area, which includes Kilmaine, Shrule and Cong, have now completed the engineering survey works phase and will shortly move into the network build phase of the project.

Construction has also commenced to deliver high-speed broadband to almost 300 homes, farms and businesses near Finny and Tourmakeady in the Maam deployment area.

Works are also at an advanced stage for 1,055 premises near Louisburgh in the Killadoon deployment area with these homes and businesses set to be connected to the network by the end of 2024.

In Mayo, there are approximately 37,000 premises in the Intervention Area (IA), which includes homes, farms, commercial businesses and schools. Under the National Broadband Plan, Mayo will see an investment of €145 million in the new high speed fibre network.

TJ Malone, chief executive officer, National Broadband Ireland Deployment, said: “Our teams are working on the ground all over the country and considerable progress has been made on the roll-out in Mayo. High-speed fibre broadband is now available to order for 10,487 premises across the county with 2,458 connections made so far. This includes 2,000 premises near Castlebar, 1,800 near Newport, over 2,100 near Ballina and 1,500 in the Carrowmorelacken deployment area.

“We are working hard on the ground to progress other areas of the county through engineering survey and design phases. We are encouraging Mayo residents to visit the NBI website to check their Eircode and sign up for updates.”