Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 February 2019
Public Accounts Committee
Regional Internet Service Providers Association
9:00 am
Mr. Marcus Matthews:
This is where the confusion occurs. Mobile communications technology such as 4G, 5G and LTE is on nomadic wireless technology, the principal design of which is to support devices that move between sites, not to connect buildings. The difference is important because the overall performance from mobile communications technology is not as good in a fixed scenario. Fixed wireless is purposely designed to perform in a static context. The difference is one of nuance but it makes a world of difference. Fixed wireless technology has a committed information rate, which is a minimum speed that each connection is guaranteed to get for a download or an upload, irrespective of the time of day, how many users are on, what they are doing or how much they are downloading.
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