Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 7 July 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Broadband Infrastructure: Discussion
Mr. Declan Campbell:
There are different ways. What we are finding in the market is that people are reluctant to take up a satellite service in that sort of intermediate position because they do not know when the national broadband plan is going to be rolled out. They are holding back on spending the €200 installation fee because they do not know if NBI is going to arrive in six months' time or six years' time. They remain in the position they are in, frustrated that they have no broadband or really poor broadband. One thing the Government could do is subsidise the capital expenditure cost, namely, the equipment cost, subsidise the capacity that is used to serve those customers with their broadband service, or both.
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