National Broadband Ireland said it was prevented from offering connections anywhere there is a commercial operator offering a service of more than 30mbpsNational Broadband Ireland, which is rolling out the State’s national broadband plan, is installing high-speed fibre cabling on poles at the gates of homes while in many cases refusing those homes connection to the scheme.
It is working with maps provided by the Department of Communications, which divide the country into two zones — an amber or “intervention” zone where no commercial operator is present, and a blue zone where commercial operators are already offering high-speed connectivity.
More than half of the homes in the amber intervention area of some 540,000 premises, which was designated as NBI’s target market in 2019, are now being offered service by at least one of about seven alternative providers. Some of the fastest to develop have been wireless and mobile communications.