Current Broadband Provision in County Donegal Brian Boyle

Current Broadband Provision in County Donegal Brian Boyle Head of Information Systems Donegal County Council ENGAGE Project Workshop, Letterkenny, 12 th February 2013

County Donegal • • • Border region Population: 161, 137 Area: 4, 841 km 2 Low density population: 33. 28 people/km 2 Scattered population

County Donegal Topography

County Donegal Population

County Donegal, www. donegal. ie

ADSL Exchanges Providers: Eircom

Metropolitan Area Networks

Community Network Services (CNS) Providers: Northwest Electronics

National Broadband Scheme (NBS) Providers: 3 Mobile

3 GGSM Mobile High Sites

Fibre Backhaul Interconnect and Project Kelvin

Kelvin – Linking NW to North America and Europe

Existing Broadband Infrastructure

NEXT CHALLENGE : HIGH SPEED BROADBAND Digital Agenda targets 2020 2013 100% internet coverage 100% coverage of 50% households take-up ≥ 30 Mbps of ≥ 100 Mbps

Irish National Broadband Plan n 70 Mbps - 100 Mbps to more than half of the n n population by 2015 At least 40 Mbps to at least a further 20% to 35% of the population by 2018 A minimum of 30 Mbps for every remaining home and business in the country by 2020 Mapping Exercise to define the level of investment Leveraging investment from both the private and public sectors

NEXT CHALLENGE : HIGH SPEED BROADBAND Bigger challenge for rural areas • National Broadband Plan • FTTx based technology (even if using LTE for “last mile”) • Non – commercial interest for private telecom providers: • Return of investment is not clear • Lower demand • Rationale: social return of investment • New financial models are needed (private-public partnership, community based models, …)