Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 February 2019
Public Accounts Committee
Imagine Communications Group
9:00 am
Mr. Sean Bolger:
As stated, 5G is on our roadmap. It is on our journey. The standard that it is at is way above what is required today. It is similar to the speeds that are being provided commercially in the market, the vast majority of which would be 150 Mbps. The reality is that in places like Jersey, where there is 100% fibre penetration, the customers do not take more than 150 Mbps. Fibre is being built for the future. That is important. We need to compare like with like. If we are building for the future, at a point in the future somebody will need 1 Gbps. I am telling the Deputy that the standards for 5G by that time will be at 1 GHz. It will actually be beyond-----
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