Ms Finola Rossi:

It was a contract delivered in December 2008 for a five-year term to deliver basic, affordable broadband services to rural areas. Much in the same way as the national broadband plan for the country was mapped and it was determined that approximately 240,000 premises with little or no access to basic broadband services. It is almost like a precursor to the national broadband plan. That was a gap-funded model. Three Ireland was the successful bidder on that occasion and it constructed something like 390 masts to deliver a mobile wireless service into the areas. It was a very basic broadband service. The minimum speed at that point was 1.2 Mbps download.