Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 7 July 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Broadband Infrastructure: Discussion
Ms Niamh Cullen O'Reilly:
Again, 3G, 4G, and 5G infrastructure are already in place throughout Ireland. There are few spaces in Ireland right now that do not have mobile coverage. As Mr. Carvalho mentioned, we have an array of different products to overcome certain problems. If it is the case that a customer is far away from the base station, we just change the antenna type. All of those solutions are already in place and ready to go off the shelf. It is fast, easy, flexible and immediate. It serves a population that already has routers inside their homes. There are some parts inside the routers, but the lack of an external antenna means that they are getting a sub-standard service. Again, it is down to hardware. When you have the right hardware, you will have a better end-performance. That is what we provide: high-performing hardware that maximises the abilities of the 3G, 4G, and 5G services that are already in rural and urban parts of Ireland.
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