Just 2,700 homes and businesses connected under National Broadband Plan

Fewer than 3,000 homes and businesses have been connected to high-speed internet under the National Broadband Plan in the first 21 months of its rollout, the Business Post reported.

The €5.7 billion rural broadband scheme is now lagging far behind its initial rollout target of making the network available to 115,000 premises by the end of the second year of the contract, which runs until the end of January 2022, and is now aiming to reach just 60,000 premises by that date instead.

As of mid-October, National Broadband Ireland had passed just 17,000 of those 60,000 premises. But of those homes and businesses with access to the network, just 2,700 had signed up and were connected to it by October 27th.