Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 May 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion

5:00 pm

Mr. Gerry Fahy:

The coverage obligations were not expressed in those terms. The original users of this spectrum were fixed wireless operators so they were largely regional and rural. The spectrum was divided nationally into nine regions, both rural and urban. To strike a balance within those regions and to make the opportunity attractive to both regional and national operators, the coverage obligations were expressed in the number of base stations that will be required per region, depending on the amount of spectrum that was accumulated in the auction. They were not expressed in terms of percentages of land coverage.

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