Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 7 July 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Broadband Infrastructure: Discussion

Mr. Declan Campbell:

Just to be clear, Digiweb currently has agreements for GEO satellites. We can take capacity on those satellites. We are also in negations regarding LEO satellites and we will be in a position to take capacity on those as well. I will try not to focus too much on the details of that particular technology. Either way, satellite technology has developed massively in the past two to three years and will continue to develop in the next two years. It will provide a service for the people who are contacting members of the committee to say that they cannot get a service. This will be available. On the point as to whether people will subscribe to that service or wait for the national broadband plan, they need to know how long it is going to take for broadband to be rolled out to them under the plan. Then they can make that decision.

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