Mr. Marcus Matthews:

The key point is that we would have to do fibre extensions. We would have to bring fibre into certain rural areas. If we took somewhere like Wicklow, we might do four fibre extensions for the entire county and use broadband radio to connect the last mile network. Rather than digging up every road and town to run fibre everywhere, it would be extended where it makes sense and then we would use a flexible technical model which exceeds the target specification proposed in the NBP to deliver the services. To come back to the Chairman's original question about the masts, they are not desirable, the model was built in such a way that we would not get into building 6,000 masts. We were considering 20 or 30.