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:
When it is built, there will be 40 or 50 retailers selling many services such as broadband, television and so forth over this network. The wholesale service is regulated at present. ComReg regulates Eir's wholesale broadband service in urban areas outside our area and the average cost of that is approximately €30, excluding VAT, or a little less. The same wholesale price will apply in the intervention area. Retailers, therefore, will have the same opportunities to sell the same services at the same price across the country. That is the model.
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