Mr. Peter Hendrick:

Absolutely. When we take the intervention area as it stands today, we start with approximately 537,000 premises. When we talk about what we call infill, some of those are premises that are currently amber premises. We have defined them in terms of how we are looking at it from a solutions-based approach. We define them in terms of adjacent infill, where they are next to what we call a blue area, where there is a commercial operator, or urban infill, where premises are more urban but there is not a commercial network providing a service today, and then rural extension. As part of the procurement process that we have under way, we have engaged with a number of infrastructure providers to see how we could extend parts of our network and their network in terms of finding a solution. It helps us to also focus on the wider roll-out plan and the acceleration plan.

That is under way at the moment. We have gone through pre-qualification to see if each of these infrastructure providers can meet the contractual requirements in terms of service obligations, future-proofing and the SLAs, and we have had a positive outcome from that. We are going through that framework process over the coming months and we will have a pilot early next year. That pilot is to test that all of the technical pieces work and also the integration between our software systems and their software systems, where appropriate. Quite a lot of work has been going on since the beginning of the year to look at this.

In addition, to answer the question around some of the additional premises that come in later on, we are now approaching almost 550,000 premises on the map. Some of that is because of GeoDirectory updates, where new premises have been added into the map, and there are also premises that are not getting 30 Mbps, whether it was because their commercial operator thought they were going to build out the network or that they simply are not getting the speeds the commercial operator thought they were offering and, hence, they are coming back in through the work of our team, through the work of Deputies and Senators and also through feeding into the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications. Those numbers have grown so at all times we are evaluating solutions in order to fill all of those requirements for premises that we can connect into networks locally or premises that have been added in. There is a constant evaluation of new premises in terms of the programme.

On Mr. Malone's side in regard to the roll-out programme, he is very much focused on the larger-scale project, getting the plan to where we can recover from the delay of Covid, and also identifying what are the key enablers that we can do in terms of accelerating that plan. Hopefully, I have answered that question and Mr. Malone can give a bit more detail on the sequencing of the build programme.