Mr. Sean Bolger:

The committee will have heard about fibre to the cabinet, fibre to the home and we will hear about 5G broadband today. They all connect to a national fibre network. What differentiates them is how they connect from that network to homes and businesses. It is important from our perspective to explain that fibre has always been in the network, and because of the heightened demands for speed and capacity, it is now about bringing fibre closer to customers. There are basically four ways to do it and most people probably confuse them. One uses cable, which is what Virgin Media does. Another method is fibre to the cabinet, where fibre is brought to a local cabinet in a town or village and then copper is used to bring the service to a home. The next method brings fibre past the cabinet into every single home, thus replacing the need for copper.