Killavullen and area now surveyed for National Broadband plan

Survey works for the rollout of the National Broadband plan are now complete in the Killavullen deployment area.

National Broadband Ireland, the company rolling out the new high-speed fibre broadband network, recently announced that the works are now complete in the area, including the rural surrounds of Castletownroche and Buttevant.

Works were also completed in the Meelin deployment area around the same time, including Newmarket and Tullylease, near Meelin, covering over 5,300 premises between the two deployment areas.

NBI crews have made substantial progress near Killavullen and Meelin, where 3,252 and 2,050 premises respectively, have recently completed engineering surveying work. These initial works pave the way for the next stage of deploying fibre on poles/ducts and include the erection of poles, unblocking of ducts, and the insertion of sub duct into existing ducts, for the fibre to be installed.

OTHER PROGRESS

Elsewhere in the local region, almost 900 homes, farms and businesses in the Tallow deployment area are now ready to connect, as are over 9,500 in Midleton and 2,300 around Youghal.

TJ Malone, chief executive officer of National Broadband Ireland Deployment, said that teams continue to work on the rollout plans and ‘good progress’ has been made on surveying, design and build works in county Cork.

“We’re confident that the rollout will continue to gather pace as we look to connect thousands more homes and businesses. We know that people want access to high-speed broadband and our goal is to deliver that as quickly as possible.

“The rollout of Broadband Connection Points is also key to delivering access to high-speed internet in the Intervention Area, and we’re delighted sites are being connected right across Cork in places like Aubane Community Centre, Ballydaly Community Hall and Courtbrack Community Centre,” Mr Malone said.

OVER 8,500 CONNECTIONS TO DATE

Network build works are also underway in the Kanturk deployment area, where almost 3,900 premises will be ready to connect to high-speed fibre by the end of this year.

There are 25,834 homes, businesses and farms in county Cork that can order or pre-order high-speed, reliable broadband on the NBI network with 8,591 connections made so far.

National Broadband Ireland is calling on people to visit nbi.ie to sign up for updates on when they will be able to connect.