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<\/p>\nThe 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 2024.<\/p>\n
Fixed broadband subscriber lines increased to 1.68 million, a 0.6% increase this quarter and an increase of 2.6% compared to Q3 2023. Of these, over 817,000 were fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) subscriber lines representing 48.5% of total fixed broadband subscriber lines in Q3 2024, up from 37.8% in Q3 2023.<\/p>\n
FTTP is the most purchased broadband technology and available at 71% of all premises (as measured by Eircodes) in Ireland. FTTP and\/or Cable broadband is available at 83% 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 Q3 2024.<\/p>\n
The County with the highest level of FTTP coverage is Laois at 89%, Dublin has the highest level of FTTP and\/or Cable coverage at 92%. Leitrim has the fastest growing FTTP coverage within the last year, with a 29 percentage point increase in FTTP coverage compared to Q3 2023.<\/p>\n
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On a monthly basis an average residential fixed broadband subscriber line used 448.9 GB of data, an increase of 11% since Q3 2023.<\/p>\n In Q3 2024, approximately 60% of fixed broadband subscriber lines had purchased broadband with speeds equal to or greater than 500Mbps, up from 41% in Q3 2023 with 15% purchasing broadband speeds equal to or greater than 1Gbps. Of the 817,035 FTTP subscriber lines, 84% have broadband speeds equal to or greater than 500 Mbps.<\/p>\n Total mobile subscriptions (including mobile broadband and machine-to-machine (M2M)) increased to 10.1 million in Q3 2024 – driven by a rise in bill pay subscriptions which represent 75% of all mobile subscriptions. 5G subscribers increased to 1.82 million in Q3 2024 an increase of 30% since Q3 2023.<\/p>\n On a monthly basis an average mobile voice subscriber used 160 minutes (4.7% annual decrease), sent 34 texts (13% annual increase), and used 18GB of data (5.9% annual increase).<\/p>\n The Quarterly Key Data Report for Q3 2024 is available on the ComReg website www.comreg.ie\/publications<\/a>. The data portal which contains the full set of data and associated map visualisations and charts is available on https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/industry\/electronic-communications\/data-portal\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/media\/2024\/12\/FTTP-Cable-Coverage.png\")
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