Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Is the communications regulator telling me that for part of the industry that he regulates he did not allow all of these smartphones onto the market? He knows that they are on the market but he granted licences to Vodafone, O2 Meteor and all of the other companies for a 3G signal for their smartphones. He said that he knew at the time that the spectrum would not provide the 99% coverage to which people were used. A long time after people bought these telephones he talked about releasing spectrum next year. Is the regulator or Vodafone responsible for the lack of a signal on my iPhone for a large part of my constituency? I blamed Vodafone until a few minutes ago but it appears that the company does not have the spectrum. Why should it provide over 85% coverage when the regulator's licence did not require it? The commission did not inform the public that 15% of them will not have an adequate signal on their smartphones.