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, …)
- Slides: 17