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Very rural broadband

  • 18-08-2016 11:16am
    #1
    5starpool
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    I live in Dublin so I am thankfully well covered, but both my family and my wife's family live in very rural areas of Sligo and Galway respectively. I'm wondering what the prospects of anything decent arriving for them in the next 5 years even are?

    Nothing announced as planned at the minute gives them even a glimmer of hope they will be covered. They are approximately 7-8km from the nearest cabinet (give or take), which I know is a snowballs chance in hell territory of receiving anything from them, and not within about 2-3km each of one of the blue lines for FTTH, so I'm wondering is there another iteration of planned future connectivity to be announced at some point? There are no viliages/towns nearer than about 8km, so no more cabinets will be going up either as far as I can see.

    Is it still just mobile/satellite broadband for the foreseeable or is there any realistic prospect of anything else happening? I don't expect so, but don't know the likely outcomes of any announced strategies.


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  • #2
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057332672

    2022 finishing is probably a little optimistic, but I'd hope its all wrapped with a bow on it by 2024.


  • #3
    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,864 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    Is that not just outlining fitting FTTH to the areas in blue lines on the coverage map which already doesn't touch either location I'm wondering about?


  • #4
    long_b
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    You've tried the fixed wireless operators - eg Imagine?


  • #5
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    The NBP is still out to tender, the blue lines are OpenEirs "Promise"/Suggestion/"If we're arsed". They may make up part of the NBP, or shrink its scope a bit, but they arent the whole of it by a long way.


  • #6
    ItHurtsWhenIP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,151 ✭✭✭ItHurtsWhenIP


    long_b wrote: »
    You've tried the fixed wireless operators - eg Imagine?

    OP - as @long_b suggested, have a look for Wireless ISPs on this map. and also have a look at Imagine's LTE coverage - both parts of Galway and Sligo are covered.


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  • #7
    5starpool
    Subscribers Posts: 32,864 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    MMFITWGDV wrote: »
    OP - as @long_b suggested, have a look for Wireless ISPs on this map. and also have a look at Imagine's LTE coverage - both parts of Galway and Sligo are covered.

    Thanks. As I said, I don't live there, just wondering from a family point of view. I know some are getting some wireless services, but it isn't ideal really for them.

    I think I've got the info I was looking for anyhow, thanks all.


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