Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 May 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Commission for Communications Regulation Performance Review: Discussion
5:00 pm
Mr. Gerry Fahy:
Roam-like-at-home capability should mean people along the Border should be able to move back and forth across it without noticing anything because they would be using their bundle in the North in the same way as they would in the South for calls, texts and data. It should improve their situation significantly.
I did not mention it, but it is part of our programme of improving coverage, as expressed in our strategy, to license repeaters. We will look into licensing a repeater, so that where there is a black spot or coverage deficit, the repeater will bring coverage in from afar and direct it into a location. There are some very useful new technologies which are quite reasonably priced. We will work through a process, but if they were licensed in our jurisdiction they would significantly improve coverage.