Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 May 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
National Broadband Plan: Discussion
Mr. Patrick Neary:
It will have a substantial billing system. The billing is to other businesses. It is a business-to-business billing system and that is where we would have placed an emphasis in our procurement, to ensure that all service providers get equal treatment from the wholesale company. It gets equivalence of inputs, that is the regulatory term. Any service provider would be treated equally by the wholesale provider. That is through the interface into its IT systems which is a particularly important interface. There is also an operational side to the IT systems which maintains and monitors the networks. Between the operational systems and the billing systems there is quite a substantial IT challenge for it to kick that off and get it in place.