Mr. Jeremy Godfrey:

The licence obligations that operators have are to provide coverage to a certain percentage of the population. Our drive tests are there to police those obligations. In terms of the proportion of the population that lives within the vicinity of national roads where coverage can be verified through driving down the national road nearest them, the drive tests we do are adequate to police that particular obligation and, as a result of those drive tests, we can see that the obligations are significantly exceeded. That is, of course, not the same as saying that everybody in the State can have coverage, particularly the people who live in more remote areas. We understand that, and that is an issue that mobile operators seek to address by rolling out their networks further - as Mr. Fahy said, there are logistical issues for them in doing that - but it is their responsibility to provide better coverage in response to the needs of their consumers.