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NBP "a political process" says Eir's CEO

clohamon · 2016-07-15 08:58:23

Not confident of getting both lots, but reckons one is in the bag. ...and gets his opponents ginned up for the battle. There's more ... http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/telco-veteran-richard-moat-breathes-in-the-fresh-eir-1.2722152

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15-07-2016 9:58am

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Not confident of getting both lots, but reckons one is in the bag.

“We want to win both lots, but it is a competitive and a political process. Whether anyone can win both, that is up for grabs. If we don’t, we will take one and roll it out as fast as we can.”

...and gets his opponents ginned up for the battle.

“Eir’s network is far larger in scale than all of its competitors combined. That gets lost in some of the commentary when people are assessing who would do best with the NBP. It’s like we’re in a league, and you’ve got Manchester United. Then you’ve got Hartlepool, Grimsby and Luton, and the commentator says ‘Luton look like they have a chance’.”

There's more ...
http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/telco-veteran-richard-moat-breathes-in-the-fresh-eir-1.2722152

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