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 one of many. Equally, we have regional operators that have existing customers, such as businesses, consumers, farms and schools, in these areas. To date, we have five operators providing services in the broadband connection points. They provide the actual Internet service and Wi-Fi connectivity in schools throughout the country under the broadband connection point programme. As we roll out in each of the areas, and we speak about Cork, Galway and Cavan, we have different operators with a presence and customers today in these areas. In many cases there are coming to us and stating they have 200 customers on a particular network and asking whether they can get connected. We are engaging with the end users but they are also engaging with them and telling them the plan and how they want to migrate them from what would be a low-speed broadband service to a high-speed broadband service on our network.
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