Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 7 July 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Broadband Infrastructure: Discussion
Mr. Rory Fitzpatrick:
I would like to give an Irish answer here and say "Yes" and "No". To a large degree, it depends. If we look at what is coming next, certainly we are heading into a fairly extreme period of growth and acceleration in technology in this area. It depends on how the systems operate when they are up there. It is very possible that it will replace a lot of traffic movement because there is no latency in space. There is a quicker connection. According to the physics, there is a quicker connection in space via satellite than there is through fibre. I have seen this before. I would like to see a little bit more before I say that would be the situation.
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