The Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) today released its Quarterly Key Data Report on the Electronic Communications market for the period (1 January to 31 March), Q1 2024.<\/p>\n
Fixed broadband subscriber lines increased to 1.66 million, a 0.3% increase this quarter and an increase of 2.9% compared to Q1 2023. Of these, over 712,000 were fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) subscriber lines representing 43% of total fixed broadband subscriber lines in Q1 2024, up from 33.1% in Q1 2023. FTTP is the most purchased broadband technology and available at 64% of all premises (as measured by Eircodes) in Ireland. FTTP and\/or Cable broadband is available at 77% of all premises (as measured by Eircodes) in Ireland. In terms of FTTP take up, 45% of all premises with FTTP available had an active FTTP service at the end of Q1 2024.<\/p>\n
On a monthly basis an average residential fixed broadband subscriber line used 431.8 GB of data, an increase of 6.5% since Q1 2023.<\/p>\n
In Q1 2024, approximately 47% of fixed broadband subscriber lines had purchased broadband with speeds equal to or greater than 500Mbps, with 12.2% purchasing broadband speeds equal to or greater than 1Gbps. Of the 712,616 FTTP subscriber lines, over 82% have broadband speeds equal to or greater than 500 Mbps.<\/p>\n
Total voice traffic minutes decreased by 11.6% since Q1 2023. Mobile minutes form the majority of voice minutes at 90%, with fixed minutes representing the remaining 10%.<\/p>\n
On a monthly basis an average mobile voice subscriber used 135 minutes (12.4% annual decrease), sent 22 texts (34% annual decrease), and used 13.9GB of data (2.8% annual increase).<\/p>\n
Total mobile subscriptions (including mobile broadband and machine-to-machine (M2M)) increased to 9.8 million in Q1 2024 – driven by a rise in post pay subscriptions which represent 75% of all mobile subscriptions. 5G subscribers increased to 1.59 million in Q1 2024 an increase of 40% since Q1 2023.<\/p>\n
M2M subscriptions increased to 3.6 million, a 21% annual increase and made up 37.4% of all mobile subscriptions in Q1 2024.<\/p>\n
The Quarterly Key Data Report for Q1 2024 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":"