Mr. Mark Griffin:

The data capacity is around 15.6 Gbit on a mobile network compared with 154 Gbit per month and the latter is increasing the whole time. There is a real issue around capacity and scalability. When we set the threshold in 2015 in terms of what the scheme would provide, we set speeds of 30 Mbps to download and 6 Mbps to upload. The European Commission came out with a paper in 2016 stating that by 2025, all households must have a minimum of 100 Mbps and all businesses should be capable of 1 Gbps, if they so wish and that all households must be future-proofed to have 1 Gbps download speeds. We must make sure that whatever we put in now is future-proofed for the next 25 years at least.