Significant milestone for Galway under National Broadband Plan

National Broadband Ireland, the company delivering the state’s new future-proofed, high-speed Fibre-to-the-Home network, has announced that the first premises in Galway to have been successfully connected is in Ballinasloe.

It’s the first of over 38,000 premises across the county, all of which 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.

As the biggest investment in rural Ireland since rural electrification, the County will receive €153m of Government investment under the NBP.

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 48 RSPs have already signed up to sell services on the NBI network and 27 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 NBI network, visit NBI.ie/buy

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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