{"id":85029,"date":"2025-08-22T12:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/85029\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T12:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:52:11","slug":"national-broadband-plan-to-expand-for-mayo-homes-and-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/85029\/","title":{"rendered":"National Broadband Plan to expand for Mayo homes and businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the company delivering the new future-proofed, high-speed Fibre-to-the-Home network under the Government\u2019s National Broadband Plan (NBP) today announced that construction is underway to deliver high-speed broadband to over 6,700 homes, farms and businesses in the Claremorris<\/a>, Cloonfad and Knockmore deployment areas in Co Mayo<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

37,000 premises in Co Mayo are included in the State\u2019s Intervention Area, which will see NBI deliver minimum speeds of 500 megabytes per second to homes, businesses, farms, and schools. As the biggest investment in rural Ireland since rural electrification, Mayo will receive \u20ac145m of Government investment under the National Broadband Plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With survey and design phases now complete, high-speed fibre cabling is now being installed for 2,615 premises in the Claremorris deployment area, 1,664 premises in the Cloonfad deployment area and 2,460 premises in the Knockmore deployment area, with connections to services expected to be available by the end of next year.<\/p>\n

The National Broadband Ireland website is regularly updated with estimated dates for when premises will be ready to order a connection. The easiest way to stay informed is by signing up for NBI email alerts at nbi.ie\/eoi\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Works have already been completed in other parts of Mayo, including the rural surrounds of Castlebar, Newport and Ballina. There are a total of 15,728 premises that can now order or pre-order high-speed, reliable broadband, with 4,150 premises already connected to the network. NBI is encouraging residents to visit nbi.ie\/map<\/a> and enter their Eircode to check if their premises are ready to connect.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Mayo set to unite for Alzheimer\u2019s Memory Walk<\/a><\/p>\n

TJ Malone, Chief Executive Officer, National Broadband Ireland, said: “Our teams are making excellent progress in Co Mayo and we\u2019re pleased to see fibre build works underway in the Claremorris, Ballyhaunis and Knockmore deployment areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur overarching goal is to improve digital connectivity across the country. With a minimum internet speed of 500 megabytes per second, this new Fibre-to-the-Home network will play a pivotal role in sustaining local businesses and communities.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

NBI has now passed over 396,000 homes, farms and businesses in rural Ireland to high-speed broadband with over 140,000 now connected. The average take-up rate of 35% is well ahead of projections and international comparisons and surpasses 50% in areas of the country where the network has been live for 18 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Some 72 RSPs have already signed up to sell services on the NBI network\u2122 and 66 are certified to provide connections as of today. To see the retail broadband providers that are currently licensed to sell on the NBI network, visit NBI.ie\/buy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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 \u2018live\u2019. Public BCPs\u00a0 which include sports clubs, community centres and tourist sites \u2013 will provide free public access to high-speed internet in the rollout area. Other BCP categories include schools and marts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u202fwww.nbi.ie\/bcp-map\/<\/a>. An example of some of the locations of Broadband Connection Points in Mayo include CLG B\u00e9al An Mhuirthead, Islandeady Community Centre and The Black Tom Freeman Sport and Community Amenities Centre. Primary schools in the Intervention Area are also now connected for educational access as part of the NBP.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Uisce \u00c9ireann calls on customers in Mayo to sign up for free text alerts<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the company delivering the new future-proofed, high-speed Fibre-to-the-Home network under the Government\u2019s National Broadband…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[4286,1638,42801,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-85029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-broadband","9":"tag-internet","10":"tag-mayo","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}