Mr. Jeremy Godfrey:

The contractual provisions for the revision of wholesale prices for NBI are a matter for the Government, not ComReg. ComReg is involved in regulating the wholesale market in the commercial areas. We have allowed Eir some flexibility in pricing. Given Moore's law and the mobile networks, it is the common experience that the amount paid by each user each month has remained more or less the same but the amount of data people are consuming has gone up. That is a common phenomenon in the telecoms industry. It is possible that at some point in the future we might decide to have a cost-oriented price for fibre to the home. It is something we might well consider the next time we review the markets in five years' time. I would not be surprised if the forces of competition and changes in user behaviour drive changes in prices in the competitive market. It is for the Government to provide more detail on the benchmarking process. Changes in the commercial area can be taken into account in the price evolution process.