Mr. Tjeerd Huitema:

It is a difficult name. I thank the Chair for letting me speak. I wanted to come back on the earlier question of what the Government needs to do about fixed wireless access. This was mentioned in passing earlier. The infrastructure is already partly there, but it is missing in some areas. I would also suggest involving the telecommunications operators because they play a crucial role in providing infrastructure.

As Ms Cullen O'Reilly was saying, we provide basically the customer's premises-side equipment, but there is also the infrastructure. The infrastructure is crucial. Luckily, it is there but it can be improved. That is the role of the operators, such as Vodafone, Three and the like. There is a role to motivate them a little more. What I see in Germany, where I am a user of a mobile phone contract as well as a fibre-optic contract, is that the costs for the end user in terms of mobile contracts for data are much higher than for fibre. One could ask if that is really fair because the roll-out of mobile data is more or less the same cost at the end of the day.

As regards capacity, that is connected to the base station capacity, as Mr. Carvalho mentioned. The antennae can improve the capacity, which means that with antennae mounted on each house one can serve more customers as more information can be transferred in a shorter time. That is one thing we should perhaps examine. I happen also to own a place in Poland. I am using fixed wireless broadband access there. I have three times the speed of what my local fibre can offer, so I am much happier with fixed wireless access. I can move it around, I am flexible and I have it set up in five minutes. These are elements which can be considered. Also, as I said earlier, I would definitely speak to the operators because they form a crucial part of the total fixed wireless access concept.