Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 16 July 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Martin List-Petersen:
Another factor also made it unfeasible for us to partake. The technology requirement set for the spectrum auction mandated the use of long-term evolution, LTE, based equipment. We did not have the freedom of choice to use alternative transmission methods. If we were to purchase nationwide spectrum, it had to be LTE equipment. That equipment costs much more than alternative products we can get that can achieve the same speeds or similar.
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