Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 February 2019
Public Accounts Committee
Imagine Communications Group
9:00 am
Mr. Derek Kickham:
I will make a point that might be helpful. We talk about it as though there is a constraint or capacity limitation associated with fixed networks but all networks have constraints and contain within them design assumptions relating to how much capacity to put in at certain points. A fibre network is the same as any other network. We use a lot of fibre ourselves. When we refer to a mast, it is not a singular entity. Mr. Bolger said that there are several configurations but a particular bay station could be configured to have three, four, five, six, seven, eight or nine cells. The answer is that one deploys capacity where it is needed.
That is what it means. It is not that there is only one of these things and that is it. This is really about putting up what is needed to meet the capacity for which there is a requirement.
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