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LAST UPDATE | 11 Aug 2021
EIR HAS SAID that a further 200,000 homes and businesses are set to have access to its Gigabit Fibre Network.
The company says the move means that 1.9m or 84% of premises in the country will have access to gigabit fibre broadband.
Eir has said that the new premises set to be upgraded are dispersed across every county in Ireland and amount to “more than 800 locations”.
In a statement to The Journal, Eir says the locations are: “mostly in smaller communities than originally announced, which was every town and village with more than 1,000 premises.”
The company also said that the total build programme for the fibre network was five years.
Areas not covered by commercial broadband operators will be the target areas for the State intervention under the National Broadband Plan.
Under government plans to provide high-speed broadband to every premises in the country, it is to be delivered through a combination of commercial provision and State investment.
Premises include homes, schools, businesses and farms and the plan envisages that about 1.8 million premises will be reached by commercial operators while just over 540,000 will require state intervention.
Eir said today that the decision to expand the area covered by its gigabit fibre networks is partly motivated by growing demand due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“We continuously monitor the connection rates of our fibre network and we have seen connections to our rural network more than double in the last 18 months, signifying the increased requirements for high-speed connectivity of homes and businesses in Ireland,” Eir managing director Eavann Murphy said today.
She added: “The pandemic has transformed our needs and what was sufficient for the average family home before is no longer adequate.”
The previous government in late 2019 signed off the €3 billion National Broadband Plan contract to the sole remaining bidder for the contract Granahan McCourt.
The year previous Eir had pulled out of the bidding process for the contract.
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@James Groden: watch as we delete all comments that don’t agree with our opinion and in some cases don’t allow comments at all!
Watch as we slightly reword Government press releases on various subjects where the public are told to get back in our boxes and do what we’re told and then turn the comment section off, because we don’t don’t want any dissenting voices.
Watch as we shut down the comment section when too many comments go against the narrative.. Breaking News! “Ten People killed in overnight raids in Gaza” Yea shut down comments on that one, as we don’t want People giving out about Israel.. Journalists my ar_se
In the past few weeks statements made by government Minister’s, the comment section has been closed. The taking down of comments that contain no personal or unacceptable comment but would have been critical of government have been removed. Bit hypocritical of the Journal.
@William slevin: respond to what? your mas ravings? No point. At this stage I pity you.
@establishment loyalist fascist lil joey:
I didn’t ignore it no offence I forgot about it…also its not a priority to reply to every reply you make to me which is alot…
But I think it was about the 70 year old assaulted in clare? I don’t know the circumstances of the assault but I’m guessing your employing it was done by anti mass immigration protestors….do you have proof of this? But let’s say it’s true I have no idea….I abhor violence against anyone unless its done for defensive reasons….if this 70 year old man was attacked by one of the protestors….then I would condemned such an attack as that infringes on the right of the 70 year old not to be assaulted for no reason…
So I would condemn such an attack
@William slevin: why willie and leave your mad raving influence others wrongly. Like your support for the protest in Clare….you know the one….I asked for your view of what happemed there on Sunday…and you ignored my question…..
Also you repeatedly ignore me asking you for proof of the false claim you keep making against me that I’ve incited hatred…well Where’s your proof…I want the comments and the articles where I supposedly incited hatred….
You haven’t so far because you can’t…because your a liar….
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