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:

It is not something that is monitored today because that is not the process that exists and, unfortunately, heretofore there were no regulations or laws that applied obligations on operators to quote and maintain an average or minimum speed. Now that that obligation exists, those measurement processes can be developed and a monitoring process can be rolled out. That will all be part of what we hope to be involved in with our European colleagues and will ensure that consumers can see which operators are quoting which speeds, make an informed choice on that and, having bought that particular product, be able then to rely upon the measurement process to see that they are still getting what they paid for.