Survey works begin to bring high speed fibre broadband to over 1,000 Limerick homes

HIGH speed connectivity is on the way to almost 1,500 Limerick homes, farms and businesses in rural areas near Newport as engineering survey works begin.

National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the company rolling out the new high speed fibre broadband network under the Government’s National Broadband Plan (NBP) have announced that engineering survey works for almost 1,500 premises in the rural surrounds of the Newport deployment area are now underway.

This area includes the rural communities of Castleconnell, Cappamore and Murroe.

In Limerick, there are approximately 22,000 premises in the Intervention Area (IA), which includes homes, farms, commercial businesses, and schools.

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Under the National Broadband Plan, Limerick will see an investment of €84M in the new high speed fibre network. 

NBI crews have made substantial progress in Limerick, where 1,460 premises in the Newport deployment area have recently begun 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.

There are 6,978 homes, businesses, and farms in County Limerick that can order or pre-order high-speed, reliable broadband with 2,204 connections made to the NBI network so far.