Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I believe they referred to topography where there is a strip of houses along a road. Even if there is a mast on a high point, such as at a local school, church or barn, it is very difficult to cover every house and the only way one can be certain of doing so is by looping from house to house. I suppose the representatives were not saying it could not be done with house-to-house fixed wireless, or radio technology. I understand them to say that one could not easily get a high point to cover all the houses along a road because they may be behind trees, a little hill or a turn. There is a meandering pattern of development everywhere that has no concentration of hamlets. There is just road-based housing development, which makes Ireland completely different from any other country. There is nowhere else in the world that has a road-frontage, sprawl-development model. Analysys Mason says it is just not physically possible to proceed with a fixed wireless solution.