Ms Carolan Lennon:

There are 1.4 million houses, so it will take five years. In terms of effort, when we are building rural we complete, on average, 30,000 per quarter. For the same effort in urban and suburban, we complete approximately 75,000. As the houses are closer together the fibre lengths are shorter and it is a more efficient build. The challenge for the intervention footprint is the distance. For example, to connect 440,000 rural premises will require approximately three times the amount of fibre required for the 340,000 area.