High-speed broadband now available to almost 2,600 premises near Dundalk

National Broadband Ireland, the company delivering high-speed fibre-to-the-home network under the National Broadband Plan on behalf of the Government, has said that almost 2,600 premises near Dundalk can get a high-speed fibre broadband connection on its network today. 

There are 2,564 premises in the Dundalk deployment area that can join the National Broadband Ireland network. National Broadband Ireland is calling on people living near Dundalk to visit nbi.ie/map/ and enter their Eircode to see if they are ready to connect. 

Peter Hendrick, Chief Executive Officer, National Broadband Ireland, said: “In Louth, we have already seen an increase in the amount of homes, businesses and farms signing up to our high-speed broadband network. On the National Broadband Ireland website, people in the area can check their eligibility to connect to the network. A connection to our high-speed broadband creates endless opportunities for users.”  

9,000 premises in County Louth are included in the State’s Intervention Area, which will see NBI deliver minimum speeds of 500 megabits per second to homes, businesses, farms, and schools. 

Works have already been completed in other parts of Louth and there are 3,335 premises that are available to order or pre-order high-speed, reliable broadband across the county, with 1,239 connections made to the network so far.  

National Broadband Ireland says its website is regularly updated to show estimated connection dates and that 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.  

As a wholesale network operator, NBI does not sell fibre broadband directly to end users, rather it enables services from a range of broadband providers or Retail Service Providers (RSPs). As a wholesale provider, NBI will make the new Fibre-to-the-Home network available to all RSPs operating in the Intervention Area.    

Some 61 RSPs have already signed up to sell services on the National Broadband Ireland network and 48 are certified as ready to start providing connections as of today. To see the retail broadband providers that are currently licensed to sell on the National Broadband Ireland network, visit NBI.ie/buy.