Living in rural Ireland and looking for a broadband solution?
Rural broadband is broadband that’s available in more rural parts of Ireland. It can sometimes lack the reliability and speed of broadband in larger urban areas, primarily because it’s more difficult to reach these areas with the required cabling.
SIRO is a joint venture company between ESB and Vodafone which is working to deliver a 100% fibre-to-the-building (FTTB) broadband network using the existing ESB network offering 1Gb download and upload speeds.
SIRO is offered on an open-access basis to all telecoms retailers in Ireland - Airwire, Vodafone, Sky, Digiweb, Carnsore Broadband, Rocket Broadband, WestNet and Kerry Broadband have all partnered with SIRO to offer services to customers. So far, over 120,000 premises are covered with SIRO’s network.
Vodafone currently have the cheapest rural broadband package - its their Simply Broadband 24Mb & Talk plan which costs €30 for the first 12 months, and €55 thereafter.
The 24Mb Broadband & Off-Peak Calls + eir sport plan from eir has speeds of up to 24Mb.
ADSL Broadband
Satellite Broadband
Mobile Broadband
Fibre Broadband
If you want to go for a deal that includes phone and/or TV with your broadband, you will be able to do this with some packages.
This will depend on the provider you opt for, and the type of broadband connection - for example, as ADSL broadband runs through phone lines, you will usually be able to include home phone as part of an ADSL package.