Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 October 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications

Mobile Telephone Coverage and High Speed Broadband Availability: Discussion

10:20 am

Ms Katherine Licken:

I suppose by way of example, we could have published the maps in June, but then Eircom announced it is increasing its coverage area from 1.4 million then to 1.6 million now. So once new operator data come on stream, we have to add to that. The maps will be very granular. People will be able to see right down to their own house as to whether they are in or out, as in whether they are in a black area, which is either an area that is covered commercially or about to be covered commercially, or whether they are in what we call a white area, which is the area subject to the intervention by the State. That has been a huge technology exercise working with industry to keep updating the maps as the material becomes available.