Mr. Mark Griffin:

No, what I said referred to the urban areas, which was the question put by the Chairman. He asked me to talk about what Eir is doing. I tried to make a distinction between what it is doing in the 300,000 premises that are being provided with services under the commitment agreement with the Department. That is a predominantly fibre-to-the-home network. In urban areas, Eir is currently providing a mix of fibre to the home and an enhancement of its copper network - VDSL, I think it is called - which will give somewhere between 100 Mbps and 150 Mbps. I read in the media that the Eir operators have indicated their intention to fibre the urban areas. Therefore, nobody in rural Ireland will be any worse off than anybody in urban Ireland. In fact, for a period of time they are likely to be substantially better off.