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The Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) today released its Quarterly Key Data Report on the Electronic Communications market for the period (1 October to 31 December), Q4 2018.<\/p>\n
Fixed broadband subscriptions increased to 1.430 million, a 0.8% increase this quarter and up 2.2% compared to Q4 2017. The estimated household fixed broadband penetration rate at the end of Q4 2018 was 68.5%, up from 68.4% in Q3 2018.<\/p>\n
Average fixed broadband speeds continue to increase. In Q4 2018 approximately 87.4% of all fixed broadband subscriptions were equal to or greater than 10Mbps up from 84.2% in Q4 2017. Of all fixed broadband subscriptions 77.2% were equal to or greater than 30Mbps, up from 72.0% in Q4 2017.<\/p>\n
Total voice traffic minutes increased by 0.7% this quarter but were 3.0% lower than in Q4 2017. Mobile minutes form the majority of voice minutes at 81%, with fixed minutes representing the remaining 19.0%. Mobile voice minutes increased by 2.5% while fixed voice minutes decreased by 6.2% this quarter.<\/p>\n
On a monthly basis an average mobile voice subscriber used 213 minutes (-0.5% annual decrease), sent 70 texts (-16.3 annual decrease) and used 6.4GB of data (+28.7% annual increase).
\nOf all mobile subscriptions 50.8% were actively using 4G networks in Q4 2018, up from 47.2% in Q4 2017.<\/p>\n
Machine-to-machine (M2M) subscriptions increased to 1,012,434, a 22.2% annual increase and made up 16.1% of all mobile subscriptions in Q4 2018.<\/p>\n
Find the full report\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"