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

2. Border region Population: 161,137 Area: 4,841 km 2 Low density population: 33.28 people/km 2 Scattered population County Donegal

3. County Donegal Topography

4. County Donegal Population

5. County Donegal, www.donegal.ie

6. ADSL Exchanges Providers: Eircom

7. Metropolitan Area Networks

8. Community Network Services (CNS) Providers: Northwest Electronics

9. National Broadband Scheme (NBS) Providers: 3 Mobile

10. 3G\GSM Mobile High Sites

11. Fibre Backhaul Interconnect and Project Kelvin

12. Kelvin – Linking NW to North America and Europe

14. Existing Broadband Infrastructure

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

16. Irish National Broadband Plan 70Mbps - 100Mbps to more than half of the population by 2015 At least 40Mbps to at least a further 20% to 35% of the population by 2018 A minimum of 30Mbps 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

17. NEXT CHALLENGE : HIGH SPEED BROADBAND 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,…) Bigger challenge for rural areas