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:
The Deputy is absolutely right. We have a contract for 25 years so we have to have it future-proofed up to then. We are putting in fibre and fibre is limitless. The old legacy copper had contention on it and we could only send a certain amount of signal down it at any one time. There were an awful lot more electronics on the system, which degraded over time or if water got into them. Once you get outside our exchange, there are no electronics. It is pure fibre, pure glass and pure light. The speeds we put down that depend on the different lasers we send down. It is future-proofed for generations to come.
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