Open-access broadband provider Siro has announced that it will invest €40 million to deliver its 1Gb/s broadband service to Mullingar, Newbridge, Ennis, Portlaoise, Drogheda and Carlow.
The announcedment bring to 17 the number of towns across the country by the end of the year – Dundalk, Cavan, Carrigaline, Sligo, Letterkenny, Tralee, Wexford, Drogheda, Westport, Castlebar, Mullingar, Newbridge, Ennis, Ratheniska, Carlow and Skibbereen.
Siro’s fibre-to-the-building service is capable of delivering speeds of 1Gb/s, three times faster than the best available in Dublin and over 10 times the best available in the rest of Ireland.
“Since we started construction in August last year, we have received a fantastic response in our rollout towns… We are now passing 10,000 premises per month and working in 17 towns. Siro gives consumers and businesses in regional Ireland access to far better services than that available in Dublin and other cities, thus reversing the digital divide and allowing them to compete more effectively for investment and jobs,” said Siro CEO Sean Atkinson.
“It is our ambition to become Ireland’s new national telecoms infrastructure. We have plans for a second phase which covers over 300 smaller towns and we are shortlisted for the Government’s National Broadband Plan which aims to deliver high speed access to all citizens by 2020. We believe that fibre-to-the-building (FttB) is the only solution capable of future proofing Ireland’s needs.”
Siro is a joint enterprise of Vodafone and the ESB.
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