Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 5 November 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport
National Broadband Plan and Network Resilience: National Broadband Ireland
2:00 am
Mr. T.J. Malone:
There are areas, which we call the black spots. When this contract was originally envisaged by the Department, high-speed broadband at that stage was considered to be anything that was 30 Mbps or above. Some eight or ten years later from when the project was envisaged, 30 Mbps probably does not really cut the mustard when it comes to high-speed broadband. The gigabit society that we have built also goes into rural areas but there is a small section of we think somewhere between 100,000 to 150,000 homes that is not getting speeds above 30 Mbps.
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