Northern Ireland’s Superfast Platform

Stephen Mullanwww.nibroadband.com

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Copper – next generationUp to 24Mbit/s

Fibre to the cabinet Up to 80Mbit/s with improved upstream ratesFibre to the premiseUp to 300Mbit/s with improved upstream rates

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The Broadband Journey

>£50mInvested in Northern Ireland

Mar 2009 Dec 2009- Mar 2011

Jan 2011 Jan 2011

Northern Ireland’s Next Generation Fibre Broadband Journey

Balmoral, Newtownards,

Bangor, and Lisburn become the first

locations passed by Fibre programme (279 cabinets)

100% of cabinets

fibre-enabled in Derry City (110

cabinets)

1,265 cabinets

across 169 exchange areas by April 2011

Additional 23 cabinets in rural areas

Feb 2011

DETI & BT roll out Next

Generation Broadband

Project (£51M)

BT announces NGB fibre

investment, as part of

£2.5bn UK-wide project

Fibre contract awarded through

NI Broadband Fund

Investment inUK City of

Culture 2013

BT accelerates its NI rollout

of NGB Fibre,

as part of

£2.5bn UK wide project

90% of Northern Ireland

premises connected to a fibre cabinet by

March 2012 (783 cabinets)

Currently Northern Ireland exceeds coverage of major European incumbent fibre deployments

N.B. Figures used for other countries are for HHs passed and end 2012 whilst NI figure is lines passed, by March 2012 however, households with a second line in NI are low enough for a like-for-like comparison

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By end of 2015, WITHOUT any further expansion NI will continue to exceed coverage of major European incumbent fibre

deployments

N.B. Figures used for other countries are for HHs passed and end 2012 whilst NI figure is lines passed, by March 2012 however, households with a second line in NI are low enough for a like-for-like comparison

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Can Rural Areas get Fibre?

• Over 70% of new fibre cabinets provided as part of the DETI project were in rural locations.

• Over 3,500km of fibre was installed predominantly in rural areas.

Leading the way in the UK

• Highest fibre availability

• Highest fibre uptake

• Highest average download speeds

“A telecommunications infrastructure that is the envy of many

other countries”Jonathan Rose, Director of Ofcom Northern Ireland

How to get fibre broadband?

• The network is open access • Check availability on

nibroadband.com

• Currently 25 internet service providers

Why can’t I get fibre broadband?

• A distance dependent technology

• Fibre broadband is available up to approx. 2km from a fibre enabled cabinet

What can I do about it?

Lobby DETI

Speak to your CP

Speak to your local MLA

www.nibroadband.com

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