Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 February 2019
Public Accounts Committee
Imagine Communications Group
9:00 am
Mr. Sean Bolger:
We have a lot of businesses on it. We know that business is using the product. We did not market it as a separate business product. Business customers use it for business. We have not distinguished between them. This is a trial network that we have run. We did not expand it. When we launched the trial, the facts that we know are that it meets the demands and needs. We have business customers. As for the normal usage that we would expect on the international works, we have tested all of that. We know that 20,000 people wanted the service in those areas. However, it was a trial network and, therefore, we did not connect to anybody else. We were not in a position to do it. This is very important. We could not make this announcement and investment because at the time we had not secured a spectrum until 2017. It was only when we had the spectrum - we secured it at a cost of €10 million - that we were able to make the plans to roll out the national network. We could not do anymore more than the 50 sites, just to be clear.
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