. NBI will be a wholesale provider to them, and these companies will then offer packages to consumers. NBI can only charge the companies €100 per house, no matter the cost. However, if the cost of connecting the house is more than €5,000 – as it could be for the most remote homes – you may be asked to contribute to the cost. But officials do not expect the companies to charge consumers, because they do not want to erect a barrier to entry, thus preventing them from selling broadband packages.
Criticism of the plan in recent times has centred on the potential lack of demand – ie, that the Government could build this huge expensive network, but that only a minority of people will actually take up the service.No. The contract is for 25 years to build and operate the network, and it may be extended by a further 10 years. The State will be able to buy the network after the contract expires, but it will not own it. But nor does it own much of the formerThat’s a hotly contested question.
I am one of those outside a signal, getting 30 gbytes per month cost me 65 euro