National Broadband Ireland said today it has now connected over 75,000 homes, farms and businesses under the National Broadband Plan (NBP) to high-speed fibre broadband.
National Broadband Ireland (NBI) is designing, building and operating the new high-speed fibre broadband network for rural Ireland.
NBI also confirmed today that it has now passed 40% of the farms and businesses included in the Intervention Area.
In total, it will connect 91,999 farms and businesses in rural Ireland to high-speed broadband with 36,972 of these now able to avail of a connection.
Standards speeds across all NBI connection types guarantee speeds of 500Mbit/s with additional products available that can deliver speeds of up to 2Gbit/s.
Peter Hendrick, the chief executive of National Broadband Ireland, said that connections to NBI's network have more than doubled in the last 12 months with over 75,000 premises now connected.
"Over 232,000 premises are ready to connect by signing up with one of our 62 retail partners. We're hearing back from connected customers that access to our network is transformational, especially for businesses based in rural parts of the country like Herbst Software, which is already utilising its new connection to support its operations across Ireland," the CEO said.
"NBI's network is designed to cater for all use cases from everyday streaming at home to the most data-intensive commercial operations. Our guaranteed minimum speeds are best in class and where businesses need more, we can offer more," he added.
Minister Ossian Smyth, Minister of State with responsibility for Public Procurement, eGovernment and Circular Economy, said that the National Broadband Plan continues to see very strong demand.
"We are seeing that take-up of fibre connectivity for homes and businesses is increasing substantially as it is deployed to areas where it had previously been unavailable," he added.
