Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed)

2:00 pm

Mr. Jeremy Godfrey:

Cable and fibre to the home are different technologies with different characteristics. Fibre to the home is capable of speeds up to 1 Gbps. The highest speed with cable offered by retail at the moment is 300 Mbps. The contention issues are different between the two networks so they will undoubtedly compete with each other but they will have a different proposition for customers.

ComReg has not publically broken down how much of that is on the Eir network and how much is on the SIRO network because of commercial sensitivity. Those would be the two main fibre to the home roll-outs.

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