Surveying for National Broadband Plan commences in more Mayo communities
NATIONAL Broadband Ireland has today announced that engineering survey works for over 4,100 Mayo premises are now underway.
This includes almost 1,700 premises in the Cloonfad deployment area near Ballyhaunis and Bekan and almost 2,500 premises in the Knockmore deployment area, covering the rural areas and townlands of Attymass and Mount Falcon.
In Mayo, there are approximately 37,000 premises in the Intervention Area (IA), which includes homes, farms, commercial businesses and schools.
NBI crews have made substantial progress in Mayo, where 1,664 premises in the Cloonfad deployment area and 2,460 premises in the Knockmore deployment area have recently begun surveying work. These initial works pave the way for the next stage of deploying fibre on poles/ducts and includes the erection of poles, unblocking of ducts, and the insertion of sub duct into existing ducts, for the fibre to be installed.
These survey works enable Fibre-to-the-Home network designs to be completed for each of the 564,000 plus premises in the Intervention Area, as identified by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications.
Network build works are also continuing across Mayo with build works in progress for over 2,000 premises near the Belmullet deployment area, due to be connected by the end of this year.
Works have already been completed in other parts of Mayo, such as the rural surrounds of Castlebar and Newport.
There is a total of 15,156 premises that can now order or pre-order high-speed, reliable broadband across the county, with 3,773 premises already connected to the network. NBI is calling on people to visit nbi.ie/map/ and enter their Eircode to see if they are ready to connect.
TJ Malone, Chief Executive Officer, National Broadband Ireland Deployment, said: “Momentum has been steadily building in the progression of the National Broadband Plan roll-out, with homes across the country being connected to high-speed broadband. Our teams continue to work on the roll-out plan and steady progress has been made from surveying, design, build to connection works in Co. Mayo.
There are over 15,000 homes, businesses and farms ready to connect in rural areas in Co. Mayo. This includes almost 2,100 near Castlebar, almost 1,800 near Newport and over 2,000 near Liscarney. We would encourage people living in those areas to visit nbi.ie to check their Eircode and place an order for a high-speed connection on the NBI network.”