Dr. Dónal Palcic:

On whether it is the sole factor, SIRO hinted that it is one of the reasons it walked away. As they were probably the most commercially viable premises, would have been connected in any fibre roll-out and would have been the initial revenues on which one would have relied, it definitely had an impact on the cost of subsidy. It removed a big chunk of potential revenue and that was revenue which would have been more quickly gathered in terms of the deployment.