Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 June 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment

National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Carolan Lennon:

Indeed. The intention was to have competitive tension, but in reality, the decisions ended up being about making it a level playing field. Therefore, the advantages we had in that we owned the infrastructure, were building the 300,000 network, and had a wholesale team, were negated as part of that process, and that drove extra costs and complexity for us.