Mr. Mark Griffin:

If one looks at the ComReg report, it states that getting to 99.5% geographic coverage would require an additional 6,000 masts. One must remember all of the planning issues involved there, as well as the costs. ComReg called out a cost of €1.8 billion for ubiquitous 5G across Ireland. Certainly 5G will allow one to watch a movie on one's phone but it will not allow an architectural business in rural Ireland, for example, to look at detailed drawings in order to finalise a design, prepare a bid and submit it to a client. It is also clear from the 5G versus fibre to the home debate that scalability of services with a fixed fibre network is far more easily achieved. We have looked at this quite closely. We have taken-----