Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 July 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. John Gartlan:

I refer to the Senator's constituency of Cavan-Monaghan, with which I am very familiar, as our company serves it. We are currently rolling out what we call our next generation service. It is a 50-plus Mbps service. We have 19 sites in Cavan and Monaghan. They could be on a farmer's shed, the side of a pole in a haggard or a yard, or a hill, like some of them up in Slieve Glah, in Cavan, where there is a mast. From those 19 sites in Cavan-Monaghan we have close to 4,000 rural customers in the Senator's constituency. Regarding our penetration, we have recently obtained a test-and-trial licence from ComReg to operate on the 700 MHz low band. I think the Senator was at the launch last month in Teagasc's Ballyhaise College. That project is-----

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