Eir’s extra 200K FTTH - When? Where?

At first I assumed this was only for those areas not in the IA so everyone on 30Mb-100Mb FTTC speeds, but as mentioned in the NBI thread, would Open Eir actively connect your neighbours house on 30Mb but ignore neighboring houses on the same cabinet of speeds below 30Mb.

I'm in this very boat, while I'm connected to VDSL, due to distance I can only get 14Mb....as can much of my estate.

Checking the openEir map I get the below messaging. Im hoping the below is true and not some weird stalling tactic from Eir. If we see Eir once again connect neighbours and then leave the rest to the NBI itl be sickening.

I would love to know what timeframes they are looking at.

Our village had Eir's rural rollout completed recently in the further out areas not previously capable of receiving xDSL based broadband but we were deemed too small for the more central locations to be covered as many of us could get up to 100Mb on VDSL and the population was <1,000 to be included under the urban rollout programme.

I had noticed a lot of activity by KN recently in the area over thr last month, 4 or 5 vans at a time around the village opening up all of the chambers for days on end. Had put it down to a lot of new builds being completed which were still getting brand new copper based services rolled in.

Strongly suspect now that they were actually surveying for full fibre. Our Eircode shows the same message as yours joe about being included in the upgrade program which it didn't before. Luckily most of the estates are built in the last 10-15 years and are fully ducted so hoping it'll be a quick and easy rollout!

It was mentioned a good few times within the NBI thread that they have already encroached in a good few areas. The other estate in my town being one of them. Appx 80 houses all connected to FTTH by OpenEir last year despite being in the IA.

@Gunner3629 Posted this map in the NBI thread. It might be a good idea to have it at the top in your post @clohamon

open eir broadband checker (arcgis.com)

There is no more brand new copper in the eir network, all new estates get fibre. So highly suspect something fibre based is happening in your locality.

This! Weckler is clueless with far too much weight put behind his articals.

Has there been anymore on this since the original announcement? Any extra timeline? Or is this technically just added to their IFN rollout?

Im really curious to see if their website is correct and that all areas connected on FTTC will be included despite being below the 30Mb and in the Intervention Area with NBI.

I think maybe just once a month (or maybe 6 months) I'll chance my arm and ask if anyone has any updates on this topic. I wonder if Eir / OpenEir will ever give any type of time frame for it.

Am I reading this right? They're planning to shut off the copper network prior to the completion of the NBP roll-out (at 95% rollout from what I can tell) ? I know Eir are not involved in NBP

Surely the obvious thing to do is get the fibre in place for _all_ households, then give people the option to move over to fibre or get cut off? What about the 5% left with no copper and/or fibre?

Yeah my reading is that it's basically when 95% FTTP + 12 months, at which point they start turning off copper (at a per exchange basis as you say).

The eircom whitepaper is interesting in that it mentions the NBP will reach all premises in 5-7 years but take 15 years to "fully migrate services to its network" Not sure what that last part is about? But I'm assuming that 95% threshold in IA exchanges will be hit as each DA is completed but potentially a long time before the "migration" mentioned has occurred.

Maybe the State should invest and make it a condition they allow NBI to utilise it where they already service part way out in rural areas.

There is a process underway within NBI where they are looking at alternatives methods or networks to connect approx. 5,000 premises including NBP premises within urban areas, end of rural ribbons beyond where eir ended their rural rollout, difficult to reach premises, etc. According to the the Dept of Comms discussion with the Rural Affairs committee this week 5 bidders have expressed an interest, I assume eir are amongst them.

Just checked mine and it has been removed too. NBI passes my gate, about 5 metres away from the house and covers our whole road, many of which can get between 70 and 100 meg also. I was looking forward to the upgrade through OpenEir but I'm sure it'll happen eventually

They seem to have removed the upgrade program message across the board.

I've checked an Eircode in an estate in Templeogue that I know they're currently building FTTH out and it doesn't show the upgrade program message either.

My house gets below the 30mb but I can't get on the NBP because Eir have this plan in place. But they are under no pressure to actually do it and could change their minds at any stage. Infuriating.

Openeir have published a map of their proposed FTTH upgrade programme. I haven't checked by Eircode but you can zoom in and click on the premises you are interested in. No dates given bar their aim to have it all finished by the end of 2026.

I asked a different crew here at 9:30 at night how long does it usually take, he said "im almost done now, it will be ready next week" that doesn't seem right?

contacted eir few minutes ago, he put me in for a callback on the 13th of july and said it will be ready then. he said it was part of this rollout alright housing estate with 55 houses. hopefully no issues arise before then.