Broadband surveying work completed in parts of north and south Longford

In Longford, there are approximately 9,000 premises in the Intervention Area (IA), which includes homes, farms, commercial businesses, and schools.

Under the National Broadband Plan, Longford will see an investment of €34million 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.

NBI crews have made substantial progress in Longford, where 2,148 premises in the Aughnacliffe deployment area and a further 1,530 premises in the Ballymahon deployment areas 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 vital survey works enable “Fibre -to-the-Home" network designs to be completed for each of the 559,000 plus premises in the Intervention Area, as identified by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications.

National Broadband Ireland contractors have been on the ground across the country and over 109,267 premises nationwide are available to order broadband with 28,279 homes and businesses connected to the NBI network so far.

Additionally, there are 1,205 homes, businesses, and farms in County Longford that can order or pre-order high-speed broadband on the National Broadband Ireland network. National Broadband Ireland is calling on people living in Longford to visit nbi.ie/map/ and enter their Eircode to see if they are ready to connect.

NBI Chief Executive Peter Hendrick said, “Our teams continue to work on the rollout plan and steady progress has been made from surveying, design, build to connection works in County Longford.”

NBI is encouraging people to check their eligibility and register for updates at www.nbi.ie