Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 June 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Carolan Lennon:

It is different. The map we provided might be helpful to members. We have our own exchanges. When we first started building out from our exchanges, we built fibre to the cabinet. We took fibre from the exchange to the cabinet and then copper into the rest of a house. We did that for 1.6 million homes outward from the urban areas. Through the exchanges there are ribbons into the rural areas. The 340,000 area goes into those rural ribbons and Mbps continues those rural ribbons. Our fibre to the cabinet is, as I said, only fibre to the cabinet. We are in design mode in respect of over-building the fibre to the cabinet network to bring fibre to home to all cities and pretty much every town with more than 1,000 premises. We are currently designing that model and hope to have the first homes passed in January 2020.

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