National Broadband Plan

The National Broadband Plan (NBP) is the Government's plan to deliver high speed broadband services to all businesses, farms and households in Ireland. It will ensure that people living and working in rural areas have the same digital opportunities as those in urban areas.
The NBP is being delivered by National Broadband Ireland.
National Broadband Ireland (NBI) is designing, building and operating the new high-speed fibre broadband network for rural Ireland. NBI’s team brings together some of the most talented individuals in Ireland and across the world, with deep knowledge and experience in delivering projects to the scale of the NBP. This includes developing, building and operating networks and coordinating all the elements required to finance and deliver a project of the size and complexity of Ireland’s National Broadband Plan
Below is the latest available information on the NBI rollout and current projection for first 6 Deployment areas in Roscommon.
Build is almost complete in Roscommon & Ballinasloe areas (Highlighted Green).
Other areas below are at survey or design stage.
NBI are working on accelerating the rollout of the NBP and the Deployment Plan is a live document that can change.
ID | Deployment Area | County Name | Survey/Design Phase | Build Phase | Estimated Connection Date |
DA007 | Ballinasloe | GALWAY | 17/04/2020 | 2021 Q1 | 2021 Q4 |
DA070 | Roscommon | ROSCOMMON | 08/05/2020 | 2021 Q1 | 2021 Q4 |
DA023 | Carrick-on-Shannon | LEITRIM | 31/08/2020 | 2021 Q4 | 2022 Q2 |
DA059 | Longford | LONGFORD | 07/09/2020 | 2021 Q4 | 2022 Q3 |
DA004 | Athlone | WESTMEATH | 14/09/2020 | 2021 Q4 | 2022 Q3 |
DA160 | Castlerea | ROSCOMMON | 15/03/2021 | 2022 Q2 | 2023 Q3 |
Where and when is the National Broadband Plan being rolled out?
We recognise that citizens and communities want to know when connectivity on the NBI network will be possible. Therefore, we publish our deployment plans on a rolling 24 month basis. Our website (www.nbi.ie) is updated to reflect the progress and provide indicative timelines on survey, design and go-live dates at an individual Eircode level.
NBI continues to operate in an extremely unpredictable COVID-19 environment which is creating some challenges for the survey and build elements of the project, and as a result, we are not able to publish deployment plans beyond the 24 month time horizon, at this time. However, we remain fully committed to deploying the infrastructure within the planned 7 years.
https://nbi.ie/map/