Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 27 January 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland

Mr. Peter Hendrick:

The funding does not change. The committed equity by the shareholders does not change, regardless of who the shareholder is. Between NBI and our contractors today we have over 1,200 people working directly on this project; it is probably three or four times that quantity indirectly. When the network is built, one does not need the same amount of people. However, we have built up all the expertise and lessons from rolling out a wholesale fibre network and interfacing with many international operators. The problem with other networks across the UK or Europe today is there are all these altnets with small fibre deployments, but they do not have the integration with big retail operators and they do not have the experience of rolling out national infrastructure. We see an opportunity to take the experiences that we have built here to the right partners. It is about finding the right partners who may have investments in other geographical areas.

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