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

11:10 am

Ms Katherine Licken:

The point we are making is that we do not want to be back here in six years' time having the same discussion. We want to do a very ambitious build that is capable of scaling up and it is much more likely to be a long-term contract. That is where all of Europe is going - into long-term contracts, rather than short-term contracts for a service that ends. We have learned much from the previous interventions that will deeply inform what we are doing here.