Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 February 2019
Public Accounts Committee
Imagine Communications Group
9:00 am
Mr. Sean Bolger:
The difference with and benefit of 5G technology is that coverage can be provided. The service is then available to those who want it now. It will not be the case that everybody will take the service straightaway. There have been references to the take-up of fibre broadband to homes. It does not matter what is done; there will be a take-up rate, at which nobody should be shocked. Wireless technology allows us to provide coverage over a wide area, but, to be clear, we are not going to connect 1 million or 1.6 million premises. We are going to make the service available and will add more capacity as people want the service.
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