Nearly 16,000 Meath premises now have access to high speed broadband
Almost 16,000 homes, farms, and businesses in Meath can now avail of high-speed fibre broadband.
The update comes as National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the company delivering the National Broadband Plan (NBP), completed works to enable over 2,500 new connections on Achill Island. This milestone means residents of Ireland’s largest island now have access to reliable broadband on par with any urban area in the country.
Meath West Senator Linda Nelson Murray noted the “immense” impact high-speed broadband is having in the county.
She said: “In Meath the benefits of broadband have been immense. A growing number of businesses can now produce, distribute and sell their goods and services more competitively.”
“Only recently a company in Ballivor had been connected and it has made huge improvements in the day to day operations of their business. Farmers have benefitted through smart farming, which allows remote monitoring of livestock, lower operational costs and reduced impact on the environment.”
“The availability of high-speed broadband services has also allowed rural schools to benefit through facilitating innovative educational tools, granting access to specialist teaching resources and enabling equal engagement by distance learning.”
“Crucially, broadband has also enabled remote working, which allows people to have more flexible working arrangements and to reduce their carbon footprint and urban sprawl by cutting down on commutes to large cities,” she added.
Meanwhile, Minister for Communications Patrick O’Donovan, T.D. said: “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. This means that delivering broadband infrastructure to the residents of Achill Island is a natural extension of this mandate.”