Mr. Rory Fitzpatrick:

It is awaiting a licence. There is beta testing going on in Ireland at the moment. There are 20 or 30 being tested. I am not sure of the exact number. We have one of them in Cork and one in Tralee that we have been testing. What is fascinating about it is that I took the system out of the box, pointed it north, switched it on and four minutes later it was connecting to satellites and beaming away.

On the question regarding the edge of the network for the national broadband scheme, Mr. Campbell and others have experience in this regard because they have dealt with consumers. Consumers want to be treated equally. If they think someone in Dublin is getting 100 Gbps, they all want it. They want parity with the other part of the country, whatever that is. Satellite got a bad name because it was seen as something secondary. It was viewed as something people had to use because they could not get what they really wanted. The Starlink is closer to that. If Starlink gets the licence and goes on sale on the market, a lot of units will be sold to the very edge and inside that there will be WiFi and wireless Internet service provider, WISP, delivery.