Mr. Marcus Matthews:

It is not mainly for business - it is very much for both. Businesses in rural Ireland need a reliable connection and reliability is more important than speed for any business. I can give members some statistics for what the rolling 30-day peak requirements are. These days, many businesses in rural Ireland work remotely and from home. Those businesses require a reliable connection with a suitable amount of upload capacity, which copper cannot provide as its maximum speed, such as for ADSL which is the typical specification for rural settings, is limited to approximately 3.5 Mbps and will continuously drop. In such cases, employees constantly drop out and productivity is lost. This is why many businesses, which require reliability, become customers of regional ISPs. Regional ISPs use fixed wireless technology because of its inherent design for fixed connections and because it can give businesses a committed information rate, which will be the minimum amount of upload and download they require. The connection almost never drops and it is incredibly rare to lose connectivity. I have had a fixed wireless connection for over a year and it has never lost connectivity.