Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 February 2019
Public Accounts Committee
Imagine Communications Group
9:00 am
Mr. Sean Bolger:
The business model is to make it available to as many people as possible. That is the first objective. By definition, we are investing commercially, which is very important. What makes it possible is that the technology allows us to make a commercial investment in areas where previously others would not have made that investment. Our objective is to cover as many people as possible, make the service available and then meet demand. That means that in each area we will have customers take on the service. If they do not take it on, we will not add more capacity and if they do, we will put up more capacity. That means we will put in our 5G fixed broadband equipment on more masts. It may start with a certain amount of coverage and a certain number of customers and when one exceeds a certain number of customers, more capacity is needed. To do that, we will build more base stations and reduce the coverage of each base station to service the customers.
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