Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 November 2020
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
National Broadband Plan Roll-out: Discussion
Mr. T.J. Malone:
On the point of whether it is underground or overhead, the speed of rolling out the network is critical to us. We use existing infrastructure. If there is underground duct, we use it, while if it goes overhead on poles, we use that. We are building new infrastructure only where there is a lack of existing infrastructure. I am very familiar with examples such as the one the Deputy gave, where one house owner would not allow a cable to transition across his or her property. That will not be the case with us because we are building on roadsides. As a result, we are not running across houses or feeding from one house to the next. We will be on the footpaths or the roadways. In the event that we will need right of access to get across a property, we will look to go around it. We will not, like some operators in the past, transition across houses. That is the technique they use but we are adopting a different technique.
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