Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 November 2020
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir
Ms Carolan Lennon:
We have fibre to the cabinet built to 1.6 million homes. There are 340,000 rural connections. We are overbuilding the fibre to the cabinet network to bring fibre to the home, to do exactly what we did to urban. An element to those fibre to the cabinet customer are quite far from the exchange. It goes from the exchange to the cabinet, which is fibre and then the copper brings it into the house. People will experience difficulties and variations in quality because of the length of that copper line. Our plan, which we have started, is to overbuild. We will certainly do 1.4 million homes of the 1.6 million and bring that fibre connection straight in. We are at 670,000. When one takes the 340,000 away, we have done about 330,000 of those and are doing approximately 60,000 per quarter at the moment.
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