Fibre Broadband Rollout Expands Across Midlands County

Friday, 17 February 2023 13:49

Construction has commenced as part of the Government's National Broadband Plan.

High speed broadband is set to be delivered to almost 1,700 premises in the Delvin area of Westmeath.

Construction has commenced as part of the Government's National Broadband Plan.

The Westmeath Intervention Area has approximately 12,000 premises, which includes homes, farms, commercial businesses and schools.

Under the National Broadband Plan, Westmeath will see an investment of €46M in the new high speed fibre network.

This will enable e-learning, remote monitoring of livestock or equipment, e-health initiatives, better energy efficiency in the home, and facilitate increased levels of remote working.

The survey and design phase of the project is complete which means that 1,673 Westmeath premises are now under construction to have high-speed fibre and will soon be ready to connect to the National Broadband Network.

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

Signing up to the NBI email notifications at https://nbi.ie/eoi/ is the easiest way to get the most up to date status of premises during the rollout and when premises will be ready for order.

Works have already been completed in other parts of Westmeath and there are 3,771 premises that are available to order or pre-order high-speed broadband, with 1,265 connections already made to the network.

National Broadband Ireland is calling on people to visit nbi.ie/map/ and enter their Eircode to see if they are eligible to connect.

Peter Hendrick, Chief Executive Officer, National Broadband Ireland said:

“Our teams continue to work on the rollout plan and substantial progress has been made on works in Westmeath. We are confident that the rollout will continue to gather pace as our ability to move premises from the construction phase to the order phase ramps up. We are currently working closely with retail service providers, and other stakeholders, to connect homes in Westmeath. Minimum speeds of 500Mbps will be available. Our mission is to end the digital divide across the country. Digital connectivity is critical to many of our activities, and this new Fibre-to-the-Home network, will be a key enabler for the sustainability of local businesses and communities.”

Under the National Broadband Plan, 559,000 premises nationwide are included in the Intervention Area, which was established by the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications to identify areas where commercial operators are not currently providing access to high-speed broadband or do not intend to.