Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 June 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

National Broadband Plan: Discussion

Mr. Jeremy Godfrey:

It was already in use. It makes no sense at all to withdraw service from customers who are using it until the new operator is ready to use the spectrum so we have run a transition process whereby the new owner of the spectrum tells us when it wants it and then we ensure that the old user of the spectrum is out. Of course, 3.6 GHz is a new band and it has taken time for the manufacturers to produce the right equipment. We have just made sure there has been continuity of service. New operators know six months in advance when they are going to deploy their networks, which is plenty of time for us to manage the transition.

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