Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 29 June 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
National Broadband Plan Update: National Broadband Ireland
Mr. Peter Hendrick:
At a shareholder level, Granahan McCourt would see Ireland as leading across Europe, rolling out fibre broadband. We will get there ahead of the 2030 European objective of everyone having access to gigabit broadband. As such, we are probably one of the most successful wholesale open access providers in Europe from a fibre to the home perspective. There are very few who could point to 56 retail operators selling on the network, the non-discrimination and future-proofing of that network, the way we have taken designs and the way we automate the ingestion of those designs and how we ensure that the customer experience and the connectivity happens on time is not something that is readily available across Europe. Granahan McCourt would see that there is a real opportunity of putting Ireland at the centre of what is happening at a European level after the national broadband plan, NBP. This will not affect what we are doing on the NBP.
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