ComReg today released its Quarterly Key Data Report on the Electronic Communications market for the period (1 October to 31 December), Q4 2020.
Some of the key findings are:
- Fixed broadband subscriptions increased to 1.51 million, a 0.6% increase this quarter and an increase of 3.7% compared to Q4 2019. Of these, over 249k were fibre-to the-premises (FTTP) subscriptions representing 16.4% of total fixed broadband subscriptions in Q4 2020, up from 11.1% in Q4 2019.
- According to Eurostat, Ireland’s household broadband penetration rate (including fixed and mobile broadband) in 2019 was at 90%, which is slightly higher than the EU average of 89%.
- On a monthly basis an average fixed residential broadband subscriber used 360.7 GB of data, an increase of 65.4% since Q4 2019.
- In Q4 2020, approximately 81.6% of broadband subscribers had purchased broadband with speeds equal to or greater than 30Mbps. Of all fixed broadband subscriptions 42.5% of subscribers purchased broadband speeds equal to or greater than 100Mbps.
- Total voice traffic minutes increased by 2.3% this quarter, being 9.9% higher than in Q4 2019. Mobile minutes form the majority of voice minutes at 84.2%, with fixed minutes representing the remaining 15.8%. Mobile voice minutes increased by 1.2% this quarter, while fixed voice minutes increased by 2.3%.
- On a monthly basis an average mobile voice subscriber used 222.2 minutes (12.5% annual increase), sent 40 texts (-28.7% annual decrease) and used 10.2GB of data (+28.4% annual increase).
- Total mobile subscriptions (including mobile broadband and machine-to-machine (M2M)) increased to 7.13 million in Q4 2020 – driven by a rise in post pay voice and data subscriptions which now represent over 66% of all mobile subscriptions.
- M2M subscriptions increased to 1.57 million, a 30.5% annual increase and made up 22.1% of all mobile subscriptions in Q4 2020.
The full publication is available in the Publications Section. The full set of data and associated charts is available on the Data Portal.
