Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 20 October 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

National Broadband Plan: Discussion

Mr. Patrick Neary:

The example the Chairman gives is not related to the technical limits but to the infrastructure available in the area. When NBI did the surveys it found that the infrastructure is being fed from an exchange in the opposite direction from those homes. It has nothing to do with the technical reach of the technology or anything like that. It is that the pole and duct infrastructure feeding that area is coming from a different location. When NBI did the high-level design it assumed it was coming, say, from east to west; when it did the survey it found that the infrastructure it anticipated to be there was actually not and was coming from west to east. We have looked at a lot of these cases. Typically, a very small number are moved in a deployment area but, unfortunately, the solution, if you want to be more accurate, is to wait until that analysis is concluded, but you are then very close to the start of the deployment. For 99% of people it will not have an impact, but there is that 1% that will be impacted.

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