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. Fergal Mulligan:

If I may come in on that, I am not sure of the location but any business across the country most likely outside our intervention area have a raft of choices from fixed and wireless. As we pointed out, fibre to the home or fibre to business is fantastic but fibre to cabinet or a wireless solution can be equally as good depending on one's proximity to that network, the quality of that network and the price of it. All those things are factored in. In terms of any hotel or business, depending where it is in any part of Ireland, outside the intervention area, that is the competitive environment we are in. In the blue and light blue areas people have a raft of choices. It is the amber area in which the issue resides and that is what we are trying to address.

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