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:

That depends on which spectrum can be availed of. If we operate in the 5 GHz spectrum, then the technology will be line of sight. If we operate in the 3.5 GHz spectrum, however, technology exists that is near line of sight so it will cope with certain impairments. If we go down then in the radio spectrum to 700 MHz or similar, we will be talking about non-line of sight. In the United States, there is an unlicensed spectrum in the 928 MHz band. The US did not roll out the global system for mobile communications, GSM, in the 900 MHz band but in the 850 MHz band. It started with 1900 MHz. Fixed wireless operators in the United States are operating non-line of sight in the 928 MHz band to provide broadband to customers.

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