Mr. Peter Hendrick:

It is not. We looked at this aspect of alternative technologies in 2018 and 2019. We explored where the market for low-orbit satellite technology was going and that for 5G. Considering the future-proofing of fibre technology, it was intended originally that we would have launched with 150 Mbps. The benchmark in urban areas became 500 Mbps. In this context, it is important to remember that the purpose of the NBP is to provide equality in broadband access across the country between urban and rural areas. In urban areas, 500 Mbps is now the minimum benchmark product. We moved our product to that standard. The network we have built and are building supports speeds of up to 10 Gbps being delivered to homes, without replacing any equipment. We can undertake a software upgrade to bring that speed up to 25 Gbps, which will involve replacing a small box in homes and that can be posted out. The fibre technology itself, the capacity we are building into the fibre network and the way we are designing and engineering that network will support many hundreds of Gbps of capacity way into the future. We have looked at this over a horizon beyond 25 years.