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:

Yes. However, the map indicates where there is not much competition for an operator that builds a new network. If an operator goes into that area, it is likely to be the main operator there. There is the counterargument. I refer to Eir's roll-out of broadband to 300,000 premises. That firm moved into an area where it felt there would not be much competition, if any. One can look at this both ways. The map would indicate to operators that there is not a high-speed broadband provider in that area of 84,500 premises.

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