National Broadband Ireland : implementation and progress

EIR struggled at the start if their rural rollout but eventually got there.

SIRO struggled at the start of their rollout and never got there.

NBI is struggling at the start if their rollout but will get there eventually. Whenever that is.

Time will tell.

They don't know anything more than anyone else but they like to promote themselves given a chance 😏

Corr, my parents place has just transitioned to preorder. Time to tell them to get the CC out :D

West Wicklow, Blessington DA, Manor Kilbride

actually, while it is avaialble for pre order as of this morning, and a load of listed providers given, when you click on pretty much any of the providers they are all showing as something along the lines of "not available yet, give us your details and we will contact you within the next 12 months (vodafone).

You would think at this stage that when moving to pre order they would at least sync up with the providers they are listing as available!

Pretty sure the pre-order thing does guarantee some degree of a place in the queue. Within an hour or two of my DA going live I was rang by KN to arrange my installation for a Digiweb pre-order I'd placed 4 months before-hand.

It could also be somewhat automated status change:

Notice the day they've gone pre-order. Its last working day of April.

Before and after:

Same, April-June '22

Sky can't seem to figure out where they live based on the on-file address, and don't seem able to understand or use eircodes. Which is understandable to be fair, it's only been 7 years :(

What sort of prices were they quoting you ? Mum and Dad already have Sky TV so I could see a possble avenue to decent pricing there.

NO, satellite delivered broadband will always be inferior to fibre optic direct to the home. Cheaper to the subscriber too.

Spoke to vf today, nbi states ore order status but voda does nit reflect this, they said to check again over the next few weeks but they see it is on the horizon just nit in their system yet. They expect an installation around end of may to end of june.

Digiweb gave roughly the same timelines but are more expensive.

Vodafone pricing if 35 or 45 a month seems the most competitive pr is there anyone else offering around this price point ?

Surprise, surprise......

National Broadband Ireland hit with financial penalties over delays

‘NBI failed to achieve a number of milestones which were to be delivered under the 2021 interim remedial plan,’ according to the Department of Communications

The company behind the multibillion-euro National Broadband Plan (NBP) has now been hit with financial penalties by the government for delays to the project that were within its control, correspondence shows.

National Broadband Ireland (NBI), which has the contract to bring high-speed broadband to more than 550,000 premises around Ireland, has been subject to “appropriate sanctions” for delays to the project since February 1.

https://www.businesspost.ie/infrastructure/national-broadband-ireland-hit-with-financial-penalties-over-delays-63079f48

Great to see the progress being made. The difference this could make to rural Ireland should not be down played. I think the next crisis we are gonig to see though is people not being able to afford decent broadband. I am with Virgin and they are charging me 71 a month for 500mb. Eir can only offer me up to 100mb which I believe will max out at 80mb. I might have to go with it for a year though. I like many others can't sustain another price increase. Sorry o little off topic but I think it's relevant.

It's a topic not often discussed here @Gusser09 , so it's good to bring it up. If you're with Virgin, you're probably in a city/town? So hopefully Virgin will see competition from Eir (Urban Fibre) and Siro in your area at some point. If you don't mind me asking, are you in an apartment or house? I only ask because there's usually an incumbent (like Virgin) in an apartment complex, and competition might not be an option....

i have kn circet guys calling out at the end of the month to connect / run the line to the house, does anyone know how they connect it, wire to the gable of the house ? or along the phone duct ? if its the duct i have work to do, they put up a new pole and the duct needs moving over to it, only about 6 foot but itl be messy work, its in the middle of a hedge not easy to get at,

cheers, what i was asking was will they / do they run a wire to the gable from the pole, we have a reciever on the gable

for broadband and the wire is already there from the attic down through the ceiling to the router

so it would be handy if they would go in around the same spot

i just dont want them to turn up, decide somethings not ready for them , and leave again