The roll out of the National Broadband Plan to over 540,000 premises in rural Ireland is one of the largest fibre projects in the history of the Irish state, with deployment of high-speed broadband to every citizen and business in Ireland. The work is split across the whole of the Republic of Ireland, into 227 Deployment Areas, as defined by the existing exchanges belonging to eir and Enet. Actavo is the only contractor working on both survey and design, and build.
Scope of works
To construct, test and handover to NBI, 60,000 new Fibre to the Home broadband enabled premises over a programme of 2 years.
Services delivered to date
Phase 1: Enabling and civils works – installation of subduct, new duct, new chambers, new polls and hedge and tree trimming.
Phase 2: Cabling work – aerial and underground cable installation.
Phase 3: Splicing, testing and handover.