Over 600 Clare homes, businesses and farms will soon be able to connect to fibre broadband on NBI™ network

Almost 10,500 premises in Co Clare can avail of a high-speed connection today

National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the company delivering the new future-proofed, high-speed Fibre-to-the-Home network under the National Broadband Plan on behalf of the Government, has said that over 600 Clare properties in its Tiermaclane deployment area will soon be able to connect to its high-speed fibre broadband network. This includes the rural areas and townlands surrounding Ennis, Tiermaclane and Lisheen.

23,000 premises in Co Clare 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, Co Clare will receive €89M of Government investment under the National Broadband Plan. 

Construction works are underway to connect 1,900 Clare homes, farms and businesses in the Tiermaclane deployment area to the NBI™ network. The first 600 premises within this deployment area will be able to avail of NBI’s high-speed fibre broadband in the coming weeks. National Broadband Ireland is calling on people living near Tiermaclane and the surrounding areas to visit nbi.ie/eoi to sign up for notifications on when they will be able be able to join the network. 

Network build works are continuing across Co Clare. Over 900 premises near Ogonnelloe are due to be connected next year, while works have already been completed in other parts of the county. A total of 10,421 premises can pre-order or order high-speed, reliable broadband through the NBI™ network, with 3,658 connections made so far.

Peter Hendrick, Chief Executive Officer, National Broadband Ireland, said: “We are delighted to announce that Clare premises in the surrounding areas of Tiermaclane can begin to order high-speed broadband services in the coming weeks. This will enable users to experience the life-changing benefits that high-speed broadband provides. 

“Almost 10,500 homes, businesses and farms in Co Clare can now order a high-speed fibre connection to the NBI™ network. This includes almost 3,600 premises near Kilkishen, almost 1,500 near Feakle, over 2,900 near Corofin and almost 1,700 in the Limerick deployment area near Cratloe. We are working hard on the ground to progress other areas of the county through engineering survey, design and construction phases. We encourage Clare residents to visit the NBI website to check their Eircode and sign up for updates.”

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 72 RSPs have already signed up to sell services on the NBI™ network and 68 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.

National Broadband Ireland contractors have been on the ground across the country and over 297,401 premises nationwide can order or pre-order broadband on the NBI™ network so far.

The National Broadband Ireland website is regularly updated to show estimated connection dates. Signing up to the NBI email notifications at /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.

Keep up to Speed!  

NBI is encouraging people to check their eligibility and register for updates at nbi.ie to receive regular notifications related to their own premises as works progresses in their area.  

Broadband Connection Points

In advance of the Fibre-to-the-Home rollout, the NBP provides for the delivery of Broadband Connection Points (BCPs) nationwide. 955 of these sites, including Public BCPs, are now ‘live’. Public BCPs – which include sports clubs, community centres and tourist sites – will provide free public access to high-speed internet in the rollout area. Other BCP categories include schools and marts.

BCPs will pave the way for rural communities to receive the benefits of broadband, from mobile working, e-learning and mobile banking, to digital tourism. You can view BCPs at nbi.ie/bcp-map/. An example of some of the locations of Broadband Connection Points in Clare include Michael Cusack Visitor Centre, Obair Family Centre and Caherconnell Stone Fort. Primary schools in the Intervention Area are now connected for educational access as part of the NBP.