Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 July 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

National Broadband Plan: Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources

10:10 am

Photo of Pat RabbittePat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland operates a code which provides against misleading advertising. Separately ComReg assesses promised speeds as against delivery. I suspect the most egregious examples to which the Senator is pointing relate to a generalised advertisement not being appropriate for a particular pocket which has basic connectivity problems, and when it comes down to the micro somebody being sold this package should be warned the general validity of the advertisement may not be appropriate. It probably comes back to the issue we were discussing that we must improve the quality of connectivity where it is inadequate.

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