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 2023.<\/p>\n
Fixed broadband subscriber lines increased to 1.65 million, a 0.8% increase this quarter and an increase of 2.7% compared to Q4 2022. Of these, nearly 668,000 were fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) subscriber lines representing 40.4% of total fixed broadband subscriber lines in Q4 2023, up from 31.1% in Q4 2022. FTTP is the most commonly purchased broadband technology and is available at 62% of all premises (as measured by Eircodes) in Ireland. FTTP and\/or Cable broadband is available at 75% of all premises (as measured by Eircodes) in Ireland.<\/p>\n
On a monthly basis an average residential fixed broadband subscriber line used 445.1 GB of data, an increase of 7.8% since Q4 2022.<\/p>\n
In Q4 2023, approximately 44% of fixed broadband subscriber lines had purchased broadband with speeds equal to or greater than 500Mbps, with 11.3% purchasing broadband speeds equal to or greater than 1Gbps. Of the 667,711 FTTP subscriber lines, over 80% have broadband speeds equal to or greater than 500 Mbps.<\/p>\n
Total voice traffic minutes decreased by 7.8% this quarter, being 30% lower than in Q4 2022. Mobile minutes form the majority of voice minutes at 89%, with fixed minutes representing the remaining 11%.<\/p>\n
On a monthly basis an average mobile voice subscriber used 132 minutes (4.7% annual decrease), sent 31 texts (18.1% annual decrease), and used 13.9GB of data (3.8% annual increase).<\/p>\n
Total mobile subscriptions (including mobile broadband and machine-to-machine (M2M)) increased to 9.7 million in Q4 2023 – driven by a rise in post pay subscriptions which now represent 75% of all mobile subscriptions. 5G subscribers increased to 1.5 million in Q4 2023, an increase of 53% since Q4 2022.<\/p>\n
M2M subscriptions increased to 3.5 million, a 26% annual increase and made up 37% of all mobile subscriptions in Q4 2023.<\/p>\n
The Quarterly Key Data Report for Q4 2023 (ComReg 24\/19) 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"