Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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537. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the source for information (details supplied); the geographical breakdown of those estimated end users per metropolitan area network; the criteria for inclusion as end users that benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7085/18]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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538. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of connections per metropolitan area network; the estimated number of end users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7086/18]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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539. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the criteria for inclusion in estimated end users with regard to metropolitan area networks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7087/18]

Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 537 to 539, inclusive, together.

Enet manages, operates, maintains and markets the Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) on behalf of the State and provides high capacity products and services on a wholesale basis to retail service providers. Retail service providers provide services to their customers which include mobile phone users, broadband customers, cable television users, business customers and secondary and third level students. As enet does not have a direct relationship with end users, it has provided my Department with an estimate of one million end users benefiting from the MANs infrastructure. enet has used data from service providers and external industry expertise to estimate this number of end users.

The number of connections per Metropolitan Area Network and a geographical breakdown of these connections are set out in the following Table. These include interconnections with retail telecoms service providers for mobile, broadband and television services as well as universities, schools, hospitals, banks, business and industrial parks, shopping centres and major retail stores.

List of Phase I and Phase II MANs (by county) and Number of Connections

Phase One