Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
National Broadband Plan Roll-out: Discussion
Mr. Peter Hendrick:
it is not necessarily that they have been given priority. It is just the design criteria of the network. We must start in locations that are typically urban or in towns that have fibre backhaul. There is colocation space there where we can put the electronic equipment that creates connectivity to the home. We start in those locations and build out. It so happens that many of the commercial operators happen to be in those locations and there are premises in those areas that do not have high-speed broadband. It is not that such cases are prioritised but because of the design criteria, we will start to pass those homes earlier in the programme as opposed to towards the end. It is a critical part of our roll-out plan.
Regarding the communication of that, where we have produced designs and tasked subcontractors with building, we have announced on our website the townlands in which we are going to build in 2021. They can be seen on our website today.
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