Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
Electronic Communications Markets: Commission for Communications Regulation
11:00 am
Mr. Gerry Fahy:
The broadband speeds pilot that was referred to earlier was a pilot to see how feasible it would be to test that and whether we could enlist customers to help us to test it. It turned out to be quite difficult to get enough people to collaborate in downloading software onto their PCs and leaving them turned on for long enough for the test to run, so it turned out to be somewhat difficult on a practical level to get sufficient information. However, now that we have this new regulation from the European Commission, and part of that is the obligation on the regulator to enforce it, we have a joint responsibility at a European level to come up with viable and practical methods to test for this particular performance.
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