National Broadband Ireland : implementation and progress

We have just moved to pre order (North Louth). Exciting times. How long roughly will it take to go live?

I have a new build the area is to go live in August I've been engaged with NBI since I started building now they told me I'd be surveyed in August and more than likely i get connected a month after every one else now I'm been told it could be between sept and Dec before in given a connection.

They are the most difficult company I've ever felt with in my life

I am 2 months into a new build in an area that has already been surveyed, but not yet started build. I dont have an eircode yet. I assume I'll need an eircode before I engage NBI and get on their survey list?

It makes no sense. The government contract for the NBI is to to cover all the properties in the amber area. Unless there was a massive addition to the number of properties in your area where they may need to consider running additional fibre lines, then the capacity requirements will have been known well ahead of time. That's the whole point of the surveying process. The end result of surveying is a build plan for the number of fibre runs, number of DPs required, ducting/poles required, etc.

That's some nice news . Great to hear !

I'm attempting to move my NBI broadband from Sky to Vodafone. Vodafone is looking for an "NBI Line ID" (not my UAN). They say I'll get it from Sky but their CS is closed today. It's nowhere to be seen on their bill or MySky. Has anyone else heard of this and is it only available from my current ISP?

After many years on (V)DSL – our apartment block got recently wired for SIRO by TLI Group and my eircode has just been marked as being available. The fibre install within the building was very professionally done and the contractors were a good six weeks at it.

So when I was looking at the various SIRO reseller ISP's I was surprised to see that my Eircode is also showing up as "soon to be available on NBI":

I'm not complaining about having (potential) choice – but is this really likely? That NBI would install a parallel fibre network to every apartment in the complex just like SIRO have done?

Or will they see that a commercial fibre network has been installed and call off the buildout ?

Can anyone who has moved their NBI broadband from one ISP to another help me here, please?

Vodafone, to whom I'm moving, insist that they need my NBI Line ID and that my current ISP has it. Sky, from whom I'm moving, insists that they don't have it.

I had similar experience. The lack of pole crews is the bottleneck with installs.

Just at the end of my 12month contract with a provider over nbi! Shopping around and found something unusual,.in that one provider is charging different rates for NBI customers,.at least 10% extra!!

I thought the concept of NBI was equal.pricing ?

Cable and poles are coming opposite end of my site, nowhere near my driveway. I'd have to dig up a significant amount of my garden and yard to put in ducting out to the road. A pole was the cleaner solution for everyone and this was cleared, on-site, with an NBI engineer. Still they did nothing about it.

I dug approx 100 metres for ducting from my gate to the side of my house and let several NBI surveyors know everything is in place. I even have a pull through in the ducting for my install which was supposed to be June 22 one push back after another and I had more NBIdiots out doing a new survey last February again I told them about the ducting but all they were interested in was the old eircom pole in my back garden from when I had a landline years ago. My most recent install date had been June/July 23 but just checked yesterday and now its January /February 24 even though houses 1k either side of me on the same local road are now ready to order.

Got a date for installation - 1st September! We had been told it would be 2024 but obviously it moved faster than expected.

The only minor issue I can see is that the old, unused, phone wire goes through some silver birch trees to get to the house, presumably they will use the same pole so that might need a bit of tree pruning, have to wait and see.

We got connected today in rural North Louth. To say I am happy is an understatement.

The engineer from KN Circet who connected us was extremely helpful and nothing was a bother to him.

I pruned some branches off the trees close to the poles yesterday in anticipation of any dreaded holdbacks, which thankfully never materialised. This really helped with the installation, I would encourage anybody who is comfortable doing this type of work to do the same when your date arrives.

I never believed this day would actually come.

We weren't due to be connected until Jan-March 24 and that date had been moved outwards a few times. Our area went to pre-order on July 1st and then went live in the last couple of weeks. So it was a pretty quick turnaround.

For everybody else waiting to be connected, keep the faith. It will happen, and maybe sooner than you think!