Mr. Peter Hendrick:

We will. What I can say, and we will take this away as an action, is we will look at the blue areas that are caught up in amber areas, that is, where their neighbours have high-speed broadband. We will examine them and see when they will be delivered under the programme. I believe that the majority of them will be passed in the early phases of the programme. A big frustration, which we are aware of, is that people who are not in the intervention area, because the benchmark is 30 Mbps, feel they are getting less.

We are mindful of that but we are also open access and equal opportunity for the retail operators. All the retail operators will sell on our network at 500 Mbps. The objective of the national broadband plan under the programme for Government was to benchmark against urban areas and to consider the commercial operators and their commercial deployment. The expectation is that those networks will have to increase to the same scale as the very urban premises and the national broadband plan.