TIF presentation to Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications 8 July 2015

TIF Telecommunications and Internet Federation (TIF) : The Ibec representative body for the telecommunications industry in Ireland Members include all companies making significant investments in telecoms infrastructure Vision: An innovative and competitive industry that maximises the potential social and economic benefits of advanced telecommunications networks and services 2

Contribution to society 3 A selection of industry corporate social responsibility initiatives include:  BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition  eircom Special Olympics partnership  Sky Sports Living for Sport schools partnership  Three Headstart/Down Syndrome Centre partnership  UPC CoderDojo partnership  Vodafone Young Social Innovators partnership Irish Cellular Industry Association (ICIA) Code of Practice for the safe and responsible use of mobile services ICIA’s Parent’s Guide to Mobile Phones

TIF/Samaritans partnership In March 2014 Samaritans Ireland launched , a new free to call ComReg assigned European number for an emotional support helpline. Through TIF, the telecoms industry entered into a voluntary partnership with the Samaritans to plan for the new number and to fund incoming calls for a two year period from March The contribution by each operator depends on call volumes. The partnership involves BT, eircom/Meteor, Three, UPC and Vodafone. Now that it is a telecoms provider Sky Ireland has agreed in principle to join. 4