Survey work to bring high-speed fibre broadband to three islands off Cork to begin 

Islanders will not have service until middle of next year

NBI confirmed that it has begun engineering survey works on Bere Island off Cork as part of its plan to bring minimum internet speed of 500Mbps to its 250 or so premises.

Survey work to bring high-speed fibre broadband to three islands off Cork is finally set to begin but it will be the middle to the end of next year before it is available to islanders.

The news came as National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the group rolling out the network to more than half a million premises nationwide under the government’s National Broadband Plan (NBP), defended its pace of delivery in Kerry, where just half of the 28,000 premises it will ultimately serve can order a connection, but where the take-up rate is below the national average.