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:

In our model, we were trying to build the most stress-tested conservative model for coverage that we could. We reduced the distances in those sites down to below 6 km. When we get down to those distances, the likelihood that we will not have line of sight or the likelihood that we will not be able to cover somebody is very low. We also discussed in our submission the importance of allocating the correct spectrum bands. We discussed allocating low bands, namely, 700 MHz, which is non-line of sight as we have just heard, and allocating something in the mid-band, that is----

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