Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 January 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland

Mr. Peter Hendrick:

Mr. Malone has talked about the build programme. With orders, we are enabling consumers to pre-order with their preferred retail provider. We have set that as a three-month window because we know we can predict when we will finish a particular ribbon. We may be waiting to get a road-opening licence or licence for the crossing of a railway bridge. We know exactly when we are going to complete a ribbon or a deployment area. We allow a three-month pre-order window. By December of this year, we will accept orders into 2023. It will really start to feed into the 195,000 premises that we have in construction. It will probably be somewhere in the 150,000 range that will be able to place orders. Some of those will have to wait to quarter 1 until we close out deployment areas or ribbons, but there will always be homes that can place orders in advance of our completion.

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