Sallins currently has three different broaband (eFibre) installations going on.

Sallins Pier / Sallins Wharf / Osberstown Park / Osberstown Court

As per recent newsletters, I have been working with Eircom Networks Division for some time to advance and accelerate the rollout of their high speed ‘eFibre’ broadband across Sallins village and across the area and to escalate to them different queries that residents raise locally.

Sallins Pier & Wharf, Osberstown Park & Drive all come under the same network infrastructure and we will all be eligible to receive eFibre broadband from the new cabinet (Eircom Ref “SLS1_044”) which was installed just at the entrance to Sallins Wharf at the start of the Summer.

Eircom have informed me that that cabinet is now powered up and in final testing / commissioning phase.  The next stage is that Eircom must advise the other broadband providers that the cabinet is enabled so they can have a chance to offer products against it.

Eircom have advised me that the earliest date they could accept customer orders would be the 22^nd October. Based on experience I would add a few weeks to that but I would still expect eFibre will be available in our estates in time to order Christmas presents online this year.

Millbank and Sallins Town Centre

Because there was a management company involved here it took a while to get the paperwork signed off. That is now done and the kit is underway. Millbank estate is served by Sallins_005 which is located in Millbank itself.  This cabinet is physically in place but is still awaiting the power supply so that Eircom can complete installation and fibre enablement of the site. The current forecast date for enablement is December. Once live Eircom should be in a position to offer fibre based broadband to almost 200 addresses served from this cabinet.

Oldbridge / Hunters Wood

A cabinet is due to be physically installed at Hunters Wood which will also serve Oldbridge. A contact in the residents committee is needed to progress the paperwork ; if anyone wishes to contact me re this, that would be useful to advance the installation.