Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications
Electronic Communications Markets: Commission for Communications Regulation
11:00 am
Mr. Gerry Fahy:
This obligation on operators is in force as of November. We expect the enforcement regulations in the next quarter from the Department, and the BEREC work will take place between now and the third quarter of this year. It will therefore not have immediate effect, because we will not be able to deploy it immediately, but it will happen much more swiftly than our capabilities would have allowed if we were to implement it ourselves. I think it is a very positive development and will mean that we can accelerate the process whereby people will be able to expect and rely on commitments given by their operators on the speed and the performance of broadband services.