562 lucky communites - Eircom efiber

Nolars

There is a thread for this but alot of people might not see it good news for alot of small areas.

eircom Announces Plans to Extend its Fibre Broadband Footprint to 1.4 million Homes and Businesses
562 Additional Communities to benefit from today’s announcement

70% of Homes and Businesses across Ireland will have access to Broadband Speeds of up to 100Mb by July 2016

eircom today announced an increase to its planned national fibre footprint from 1.2 million homes and businesses to 1.4 million homes and businesses across Ireland. This means that by July 2016, 70% of the country will have access to fibre broadband speeds of up to 100Mbs – a crucial development in making high speed broadband more widely available to many regions across Ireland.

eircom’s fibre rollout programme is currently ahead of schedule and the company is on track to pass 700,000 premises by the end of the year. Today’s announcement means that an additional 562 communities across all 26 counties will be able to avail of eircom’s superfast eFibre service.

This is a major extension of fibre broadband to a large number of provincial towns. A challenge remains to deliver high speed broadband to premises currently outside this planned extended fibre rollout, or those homes and businesses that are too distant from exchanges to be served. eircom welcomes the National Broadband Plan by Government, which intends to address the challenge of delivering high speed broadband service to all remaining premises.

Commenting Herb Hribar, CEO eircom Group said “This is a very positive development and a critical step forward in ensuring as many people as possible across Ireland have access to high speed fibre broadband. No other operator in Ireland is investing as extensively in fibre broadband. Our investment reinforces our commitment to build a network for a nation that connects as many customers as possible to Ireland’s largest telecommunications infrastructure. Our announcement today means that 70% of all homes and businesses in Ireland will have access to fibre broadband speeds of up to 100Mbps by December 2016. Today’s announcement maximises the footprint of fibre broadband that can be currently achieved on a commercial basis in Ireland and we are committed to work with the Government to ensure that the National Broadband Plan provides access to high speed broadband for all.”

Source: http://pressroom.eircom.net/press_re..._to_1.4_milli/
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/comms...pand-fibre-to/


The list
http://pressroom.eircom.net/images/u...Page%20FA4.pdf

davidsr20

Great we just have to wait 3 years for it!