Mr. Martin List-Petersen:

With regard to the figures, the Senator is talking about 540,000 premises. That is the figure for premises passed that the NBP wants to achieve. When we talk about 4,000 to 5,000 premises that Net1 covers in the Monaghan and Leitrim area, that is 4,000 to 5,000 premises that are subscribed. There is also competition from ADSL, the copper technologies, mobile broadband and other platforms. Not every household in that coverage is subscribed to the service. It is apples and oranges again. One thing is uptake and the other is premises passed. One cannot just say that the 4,000 to 5,000 do not scale to the 540,000 nationwide because one must consider uptake. In addition, the Senator said he expects a high uptake under the national broadband plan. Even Open Eir, with a 300,000 roll-out, did not have a very high uptake. It did not anticipate that, for example, we are already covering many of these customers, who did not move because we could give them an adequate service or they were not interested in paying for the service needed to get the line into the property.