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:

Any fibre to premises network will use the existing infrastructure that is in place typically for the existing operators in rural Ireland. The primary operator is Eir which has a vast number of poles and ducts which are available. The vast majority of the Eir network in rural Ireland is overhead and carried on poles. As part of our tender, we have encouraged bidders to use existing infrastructure and it is very likely that any deployment of fibre to homes in rural areas will primarily use the overhead poles for telecommunications infrastructure.

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