Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
Line Rental Charges: Discussion with Commission for Communications Regulation
10:10 am
Mr. Kevin O'Brien:
The best way of describing it is that while Eircom might sell something in the market for €50, for example, it must sell it to another operator for €30, for example, so the other operator can then sell the product at a retail price of €40 or €50. There are many prices at which Eircom must offer its products to other operators. The change is in relation to one of those prices, in the context of Eircom's rolling out of next-generation broadband. Since Eircom is constrained ultimately by the price at which it sells to other operators, it needs to reduce the price in this context so it can sell competitively in respect of the next-generation access products.
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