Ms Carolan Lennon:

When we designed the 300,000 roll-out, we were in the NBP process and hoping to win. We designed our 300,000 roll-out with extra fibres and more expensive connection points so that, if we or someone else was successful, we could use them to continue into the intervention area and extend the footprint. We offered a passive product to the remaining bidder so that it could do that instead of overbuilding in the NBP. However, it decided to overbuild rather than use that product.