The first premises on Achill Island have now been connected to high-speed fibre broadband.
National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the company rolling out the National Broadband Plan (NBP) has today hosted an event on Achill Island to mark the first connections on the remote island.
Main build works on the island infrastructure are now complete enabling over 2,500 homes, farms and businesses to high-speed broadband.
NBI said this means that residents of Ireland’s largest island will have the same access to 2 Gig, reliable, broadband as any of the over 380,000 premises that NBI has already passed across the country.
“The National Broadband Plan is one of the largest State infrastructure projects since rural electrification, and ensures that no community, home or business is left behind from a connectivity point of view,” said Patrick O’Donovan, Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport.
“This means that delivering broadband infrastructure to the residents of Achill Island is a natural extension of this mandate,” he added,
