NATIONAL Broadband Ireland (NBI) today announced that construction has commenced to deliver high-speed broadband to almost 3,000 premises in the Kilgarvan and Castlegregory deployment areas and almost 1,500 premises in the Ballyheigue deployment area.
Customers there will soon be able to order or pre-order a high-speed fibre broadband connection on its network. NBI is the company rolling out the new high speed fibre broadband network under the Government’s National Broadband Plan (NBP)
In Kerry, there are approximately 27,000 premises in the Intervention Area (IA), which includes homes, farms, commercial businesses and schools.
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Under the National Broadband Plan, Kerry will see an investment of €107M 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.
There are 1,498 Kerry homes, businesses and farms in the Ballyheigue deployment area that will soon be able to join the National Broadband Ireland network in the coming months.
Having successfully completed the survey and design phase of the project, 2,082 Kerry premises in the Kilgarvan deployment area are now under construction to have high-speed fibre delivered and a further 858 premises in the Castlegregory deployment area of the county also have build works underway. Both areas will be ready to connect to National Broadband Ireland’s network later this year.
Works have already been completed in other parts of Kerry and there are 6,466 premises that are available to order or pre-order high-speed, reliable broadband in the Killarney and Tralee Deployment Areas, with 1,593 connections already made to the network.
National Broadband Ireland is calling on people to visit www.nbi.ie/map/ and enter their Eircode to see if they are ready to connect.
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