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:

On that point, it is interesting that regional ISPs have maintained their customer numbers in spite of the fibre roll-out of Eir's 300,000 intervention. It is something we were discussing a few weeks ago. It is quite intriguing. One can only come to one conclusion in that. As the number of premises took up that service, and it is reckoned that approximately 14% of premises passed during that Eir roll-out did, it would have been taking them predominantly from regional ISPs. The only way for regional ISPs to maintain their numbers would have been to extend their networks into areas that were not being served and acquire new customers. It shows quite a level of ingenuity on the part of regional ISPs that they are continuously adding customers to their businesses in terms of serving areas that are not served.

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