Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 28 March 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed)
9:00 am
Mr. Patrick Neary:
The amber area on the map is the area of the country where commercial operators will not deliver high-speed broadband in the near term. In the area marked dark blue high-speed broadband of 30 Mbps is available today. The light blue area is where Eir has committed to deliver high-speed broadband and complete the roll-out by the middle of this year. In the amber area, following state aid rules, we have identified where market failure exists so that no operator intends to deliver high-speed broadband. That has been the subject of our procurement since we made the change in April 2017 regarding 540,000 premises.
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