The National Broadband Plan (NBP) aims to ensure that every home, farm and business in Ireland – regardless of how remote or rural – has access to high-speed broadband. The Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC) to date has identified more than 544,000 premises (collectively known as the Intervention Area) across Ireland that require access to high-speed broadband.

The NBP is one of the biggest and most significant investments in rural Ireland ever. Stretching across 96% of Ireland, this massive, complex project is considered to be amongst the most ambitious in telecoms globally.

If your premises isn’t included in the roll out of the National Broadband Plan, but you cannot receive internet speeds of 30Mb or more from any commercial broadband provider, the following steps should be taken;

• Contact your retail service provider to investigate the issue and to determine the reason why your broadband speeds are slow or that the service cannot be provided.
• Following the service provider investigation, if you are unable to receive over 30Mbps from any broadband service provider, then you can apply to the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications (DECC) who will undertake an investigation on your behalf.
• The investigation will determine if high speed broadband could be provided to you by a commercial broadband provider in a timely manner or and if this is not the case, then DECC will determine if your premises could be included in the National Broadband Plan fibre rollout.
• Contact broadband@decc.gov.ie for further details.

We will have completed the network build within 7 years. We will continue to add to and upgrade the network, and connect new homes or premises built in the roll-out area, over the next 25 – 35 years.