The Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) today released its Quarterly Key Data Report on the Electronic Communications market for the period (1 April to 30 June), Q2 2024.<\/p>\n
Fixed broadband subscriber lines increased to 1.67 million, a 0.6% increase this quarter and an increase of 3.1% compared to Q2 2023. Of these, over 763,000 were fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) subscriber lines representing 45.7% of total fixed broadband subscriber lines in Q2 2024, up from 35.5% in Q2 2023. FTTP is the most purchased broadband technology and available at 68% of all premises (as measured by Eircodes) in Ireland. FTTP and\/or Cable broadband is available at 81% of all premises (as measured by Eircodes) in Ireland. In terms of FTTP take-up, 47% of all premises with FTTP available had an active FTTP service at the end of Q2 2024.<\/p>\n
On a monthly basis an average residential fixed broadband subscriber line used 433.1 GB of data, an increase of 13% since Q2 2023.<\/p>\n
In Q2 2024, approximately 50% of fixed broadband subscriber lines had purchased broadband with speeds equal to or greater than 500Mbps, with 13% purchasing broadband speeds equal to or greater than 1Gbps. Of the 763,677 FTTP subscriber lines, 83% have broadband speeds equal to or greater than 500 Mbps.<\/p>\n
Total voice traffic minutes decreased by 3.9% since Q2 2023. Mobile minutes form the majority of voice minutes at 92%, with fixed minutes representing the remaining 8%.<\/p>\n
On a monthly basis an average mobile voice subscriber used 164 minutes (5.2% annual decrease), sent 32 texts (1% annual decrease), and used 13.7GB of data (0.5% annual increase).<\/p>\n
Total mobile subscriptions (including mobile broadband and machine-to-machine (M2M)) increased to 9.9 million in Q2 2024 – driven by a rise in post pay subscriptions which represent 76% of all mobile subscriptions. 5G subscribers increased to 1.71 million in Q2 2024 an increase of 32% since Q2 2023.<\/p>\n
M2M subscriptions increased to 3.7 million, a 16% annual increase and made up 37.9% of all mobile subscriptions in Q2 2024.<\/p>\n
The Quarterly Key Data Report for Q2 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":"