More than 2,000 homes and businesses in the Tuam and Ballymoe areas can now avail of high-speed fibre broadband.
National Broadband Ireland (NBI) have said that 745 Galway premises in its Castlerea deployment area and 1,500 premises in its Gurteen deployment area can now order a high-speed fibre broadband connection.
These areas include Colemanstown and Menlough near Tuam and rural areas near Ballymoe along the Roscommon border.
Peter Hendrick, Chief Executive Officer, National Broadband Ireland, said: “We are delighted to announce that Galway premises near Tuam can now order high-speed broadband services through the National Broadband Ireland network.”
“This will enable users to experience the life-changing benefits that high-speed broadband provides. Presently the surrounding areas of Galway City, Athenry, Loughrea and Ballinasloe can also order high-speed fibre broadband on the NBI network.”
40,000 premises in County Galway are included in the State’s Intervention Area, which will see NBI deliver minimum speeds of 500 megabits per second to homes, businesses, farms, and schools.
As the biggest investment in rural Ireland since rural electrification, County Galway will receive €153M of Government investment under the National Broadband Plan.
There are almost 2,300 Galway premises in the Castlerea and Gurteen deployment areas that can join the National Broadband Ireland network.
National Broadband Ireland is calling on people living near Tuam to visit nbi.ie/map/ and enter their Eircode to see if they are ready to connect.
Works have already been completed in other parts of Galway and there is a total of 16,464 premises that are available to pre-order or order high-speed, reliable broadband across the county with 4,933 connections made so far.
