Mr. Peter Hendrick:

There is enough commercial tension between those three operators that roll-outs will happen. If they do not, the European Commission’s ambition is for 100 Mbps to become the minimum speed that everybody would have access to by 2025. That was an objective or target. I expect that as the broadband speeds increase, there will be at a European level a review of where commercial operators are going with rolling out this infrastructure to hit 1 Gbps by 2030 and if further State intervention would be required.

Right now, based on the announcements, I am highly confident that we will be close to more than 95% having access to fibre. In our programme, we are seeing the number of premises increase. We are at 554,000 premises today versus 537,000 when the contract was signed. That is new homes being built, as well as homes that are designated as being in the blue area where a commercial operator was providing 30 Mbps but they are not getting it. They are being added back into the national broadband plan, NBP.

I do not know where or when a new threshold will be set, but, absolutely, it will be monitored over the next five to ten years.