Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 September 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland
Mr. Peter Hendrick:
Yes, we have 46 today which is an incredible number. They are proactively engaging with their customers, whether it is on a wireless or copper-based network, and offering them either free installation, six months free or 12 months at 50% discount. They are incentivising their customers to move over to what they would see as a more reliable and higher speed network.
If we look at this at the macro level, from a European perspective there is an ambition that all premises throughout Europe will have gigabit capable services by 2030. This is why we are seeing a massive shift by commercial and State funding to bring all of this infrastructure onto fibre-based networks.
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