Surveying for National Broadband Plan completed in Knock

NATIONAL Broadband Ireland (NBI) has announced that surveying works for almost 3,000 premises in the Knock deployment area are now completed.

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

NBI crews have made substantial progress in Knock, where 2,988 premises in the deployment area have recently completed 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 37,000 premises in the Mayo intervention area, as identified by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications.

There are 6,399 homes, businesses and farms in Mayo that can order or pre-order high-speed, reliable broadband, with 1,440 connections already made to the network.

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

Said NBI chief executive Peter Hendrick: “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 County Mayo.

“As an increasing number of homes and businesses are being connected, we are confident that the roll-out will continue to gather pace as we look to connect thousands more homes and businesses. We are acutely aware that people want access to high-speed broadband and our goal is to deliver that as quickly as possible.

“Survey and designs are an important part of mapping out how every home, farm and business will be connected, and they provide the blueprint for how the NBI fibre is laid.”