Mr. Jeremy Godfrey:

As Mr. Leavy said, the cost to be recovered from a pole is €20 a month all told. If there are two networks on the pole, it is split. If one of the networks goes away, the remaining network would have to pay the full €20. The other aspect of our early thinking was that, to protect the consumer and competition, if Eir were to decide to withdraw the copper it would have to be done in a way which protected the interests of end users.

They should not have to pay higher prices. They should be adequately informed. They should also be told about the differences in service characteristics. Similarly, wholesale service providers that are making use of the copper network should be able to migrate to equivalent services provided over the fibre network.