{"id":111819,"date":"2020-03-12T13:22:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T13:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/?p=111819"},"modified":"2020-03-12T13:22:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T13:22:07","slug":"comreg-publishes-quarterly-key-data-report-q4-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/comreg-publishes-quarterly-key-data-report-q4-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"ComReg publishes Quarterly Key Data Report – Q4 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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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 2019.<\/p>\n

Fixed broadband subscriptions increased to 1.463 million, a 0.1% increase this quarter and an increase of 2% compared to Q4 2018. Of these, 162k were FTTP subscriptions representing 11.1% of total fixed broadband subscriptions in Q4 2019, up from 6.3% in Q4 2018.<\/p>\n

According to Eurostat, in 2019 Ireland\u2019s household penetration rate (including fixed and mobile broadband) at 90% is higher than the EU average of 89%.<\/p>\n

Average advertised fixed broadband speeds continue to increase. In Q4 2019 approximately 81.9% of all fixed broadband subscriptions were equal to or greater than 30Mbps up from 77.2% in Q4 2018. Of all fixed broadband subscriptions 36.2% were equal to or greater than 100Mbps, up from 29.6% in Q4 2018.<\/p>\n

Total voice traffic minutes decreased by 1.4% this quarter and were 6.7% lower than in Q4 2018. Mobile minutes form the majority of voice minutes at 83.7%, with fixed minutes representing the remaining 16.3%.\u00a0 Mobile voice minutes decreased by 0.9% while fixed voice minutes decreased by 4.3% this quarter.<\/p>\n

On a monthly basis an average mobile voice subscriber used 198 minutes (-6.8% annual decrease), sent 56 texts (-19.2% annual decrease) and used 7.7GB of data (+20.9% annual increase).<\/p>\n

Of all mobile subscriptions 60% were actively using 4G networks in Q4 2019, up from 56.5% in Q4 2018. Total mobile subscriptions (including mobile broadband and machine-to-machine) increased to 6.65 million in Q4 2019 driven by a rise in post pay subscriptions which now represent 62% of all mobile subscriptions.<\/p>\n

Machine-to-machine (M2M) subscriptions increased to 1,206,513, a 19.2% annual increase and made up 18.1% of all mobile subscriptions in Q4 2019.<\/p>\n

The full Quarterly Key Data Report for Q4 2019 is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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