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:

That was also during the period of recession and consolidation. I would not want to give the committee the impression that we do not think there is competition. There is competition but a fourth competitor acting as a maverick is always better than three competitors who have, perhaps, different interests. We therefore hoped to see the mobile virtual network operators reintroducing the maverick tendency into the market. Some of that has come in but it has not fully replaced what was there beforehand.