The Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) today released its Quarterly Key Data Report on the Electronic Communications market for the period (1 July to 30 September), Q3 2023.<\/p>\n
Fixed broadband subscriber lines increased to 1.64 million, a 1.6% increase this quarter and an increase of 2.8% compared to Q3 2022. Of these, nearly 620,000 were fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) subscriber lines representing 37.6% of total fixed broadband subscriber lines in Q3 2023, up from 28.9% in Q3 2022. FTTP is the most commonly purchased broadband technology in Ireland.<\/p>\n
On a monthly basis an average residential fixed broadband subscriber line used 403.9 GB of data, an increase of 9.7% since Q3 2022.<\/p>\n
In Q3 2023, approximately 40% of fixed broadband subscriber lines had purchased broadband with speeds equal to or greater than 500Mbps, with 10.2% purchasing broadband speeds equal to or greater than 1Gbps. Of the 619,968 FTTP subscriber lines, almost 80% have broadband speeds equal to or greater than 500 Mbps.<\/p>\n
Total voice traffic minutes decreased by 3.7% this quarter, being 25% lower than in Q3 2022. Mobile minutes form the majority of voice minutes at nearly 89%, with fixed minutes representing the remaining 11%.<\/p>\n
On a monthly basis an average mobile voice subscriber used 138 minutes (4.8% annual decrease), sent 30 texts (20.1% annual decrease), and used 13.9GB of data (5.9% annual increase).<\/p>\n
Total mobile subscriptions (including mobile broadband and machine-to-machine (M2M)) increased to 9.5 million in Q3 2023 – driven by a rise in post pay subscriptions which now represent 74% of all mobile subscriptions. 5G subscribers increased to 1.4 million in Q3 2023, an increase of 70% since Q3 2022.<\/p>\n
M2M subscriptions increased to 3.4 million, a 28% annual increase and made up 36% of all mobile subscriptions in Q3 2023.<\/p>\n
The Quarterly Key Data Report for Q3 2023 is available on the ComReg website www.comreg.ie\/publications<\/a>. The data portal which contains the full set of data and associated charts is available on https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/industry\/electronic-communications\/data-portal\/<\/a><\/p>\n This press release is also available as Gaeilge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"