Competition and telecommunications infrastructure in Ireland: A trade union perspective

David T Begg

Telecommunications Policy, vol. 19, issue 4, 307-311

Abstract: The Communication Workers' Union is opposed to competition in telecommunications infrastructure on the grounds that such competition would place the national operator, Telecom Eireann, in an impossible position, having regard to the enormous historic cost of developing the existing network and the requirement to invest a further £800 million over the next five years. It also believes that to duplicate investment in infrastructure would be inefficient in national terms and points to the 900 or more airliners parked in the world's deserts as an example of the type of stranded investment that can arise when competition is taken too far.

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