ComReg has today released its Quarterly Key Data Report on the Electronic Communications market for the period of Q3 2020.
The main trends are:
- Fixed broadband subscriptions increased to 1.5 million, a 0.8% increase this quarter and an increase of 3.6% compared to Q3 2019. Of these, over 223k were fibre-to the-premises (FTTP) subscriptions representing 14.8% of total fixed broadband subscriptions in Q3 2020, up from 9.9% in Q3 2019.
- According to Eurostat, in 2019 Ireland’s household penetration rate (including fixed and mobile broadband) at 90% is slightly higher than the EU average of 89%.
- On a monthly basis an average fixed residential broadband subscriber used 315.9 GB of data, an increase of 60.4% since Q3 2019.
- In Q3 2020, approximately 80.4% of broadband subscribers had purchased broadband with speeds equal to or greater than 30Mbps. Of all fixed broadband subscriptions 40.8% of subscribers purchased broadband speeds equal to or greater than 100Mbps.
- Total voice traffic minutes decreased by 11.9% this quarter while increasing 2.8% higher than in Q3 2019. Mobile minutes form most voice minutes at 84.4%, with fixed minutes representing the remaining 15.6%. Mobile voice minutes decreased by 7.9% this quarter, while fixed voice minutes decreased by 11.9%.
- On a monthly basis an average mobile voice subscriber used 221.7 minutes (9.6% annual increase), sent 44 texts (-26.1% annual decrease) and used 10.9GB of data (+46.6% annual increase).
- Total mobile subscriptions (including mobile broadband and machine-to-machine (M2M)) increased to 6.96 million in Q3 2020 - driven by a rise in post pay subscriptions which now represent over 65% of all mobile subscriptions.
- M2M subscriptions increased to 1.45 million, a 26.3% annual increase and made up 20.9% of all mobile subscriptions in Q3 2020.
