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 3.6 spectrum is not a coverage spectrum per se. It is more of a capacity spectrum. It is certainly usable for coverage and is used significantly throughout the country for fixed wireless broadband services so it is not a mobility service. It is a fixed service and is very useful for that. One would expect it to be continued to be used for that. As was mentioned earlier by my colleagues, the real coverage is the 700 MHz band. That is used today for broadcast services and broadcasts well into valleys and through buildings. That would be the classic coverage spectrum. There is a big debate to be had with all stakeholders as to whether we need to move away from the population expression of coverage towards a geographic expression of coverage. ComReg is completely open minded on that issue.

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