No. Of Kildare Premises Surveyed Under National Broadband Plan Doubles.

Thursday, 27 May 2021 15:34

From 20% to 42% in two months.

There's been a doubling in the number of broadband surveys conducted on premises in Kildare in the last 8 weeks.

The studies are being conducted on buildings in the county which can't get online, as part of the National Broadband Plan.

Up to March, just 20% of premises in Kildare had been surveyed for supply of the service.

That's jumped to 42%, or 5,963, up to May 20th.

COUNTY	number of premises in the IA	surveys completed	% surveys completed
Carlow	8,190	7,772	95%
Cavan	16,274	3,738	23%
Clare	22,719	3,556	16%
Cork	79,663	22,765	29%
Donegal	32,483	6,389	20%
Dublin	13,677	2,437	18%
Galway	38,887	14,914	38%
Kerry	26,988	16,382	61%
Kildare	14,085	5,963	42%
Kilkenny	18,416	5,951	32%
Laois	12,562	9,695	77%
Leitrim	11,614	3,576	31%
Limerick	21,293	8,583	40%
Longford	8,712	3,294	38%
Louth	8,423	7,850	93%
Mayo	36,614	8,281	23%
Meath	19,824	6,926	35%
Monaghan	15,332	10,644	69%
Offaly	12,216	1,275	10%
Roscommon	19,185	8,230	43%
Sligo	14,875	3,959	27%
Tipperary	29,810	11,765	39%
Waterford	15,048	11,277	75%
Westmeath	11,761	8,656	74%
Wexford	22,552	11,231	50%
Wicklow	15,464	10,547	68%
TOTAL	546,762	215,856	39%

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