Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 16 July 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Marcus Matthews:

What the Senator is saying in terms of mobile communications technology is the problem here. There is an issue that it is the same as the technology used by regional ISPs, but it is not. In terms of the cost and the number of sites, I have no doubt that is accurate if it was to be done via 5G, but we are not talking about 5G. We are talking about a technology that has been purposely designed and has been used for 20 years to deliver connectivity in remote and rural regions across the world.

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