Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 February 2019
Public Accounts Committee
Eir
9:00 am
Ms Carolan Lennon:
Not for us. In our case, part of the tender and the requirement for the national broadband plan was that we would set up a completely new wholesale team. We have a wholesale team today; we are the biggest wholesale operator in Ireland. Part of the NBP was that we would set up a duplicate wholesale team to sell into the national broadband plan footprint and that our current wholesale team would not be able to sell into it. If I had 80 people selling today, with all of the systems and costs involved in supporting them, I would have to have another 80, probably, selling into the national broadband plan footprint. That did not make any sense for us and we could not stand over it. Therefore, we could not recommend it to the board.
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