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 2024.<\/p>\n
Fixed broadband subscriber lines increased to 1.69 million, an increase of 2.4% compared to Q4 2023. Of these, over 867,052 were fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) subscriber lines representing 51% of total fixed broadband subscriber lines in Q4 2024, up from 40.4% in Q4 2023.<\/p>\n
ComReg also today published an Open Data Map Hub with an interactive application to show Coverage and Take-Up of Gigabit Broadband (FTTP and Cable) by county across Ireland.<\/p>\n
FTTP is the most purchased broadband technology and is available at 74% of all premises in Ireland. Gigabit broadband is available at 85% of all premises in Ireland. In terms of FTTP take up, 49% of all premises with FTTP available had an active FTTP service at the end of Q4 2024. The County with the highest level of FTTP coverage is Laois at 92%, Longford has the highest level of Gigabit coverage at 93%. Leitrim has the fastest growing FTTP coverage within the last year, with a 35-percentage point increase in FTTP coverage compared to Q4 2023.<\/p>\n
On a monthly basis an average residential fixed broadband subscriber line used 506.75 GB of data, an increase of 14% since Q4 2023. Businesses have used 343.55 GB of data, an increase of 24% compared to Q4 2023.<\/p>\n
In Q4 2024, approximately 65.5% of fixed broadband subscriber lines had purchased broadband with speeds equal to or greater than 500Mbps, up from 44% in Q4 2023 with 18% purchasing broadband speeds equal to or greater than 1Gbps. Of the 867,852 FTTP subscriber lines, 93% 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 10.3 million in Q4 2024 – driven by a rise in bill pay subscriptions which represent 76% of all mobile subscriptions. 5G subscribers increased to 1.99 million in Q4 2024, an increase of 28% since Q4 2023.<\/p>\n
On a monthly basis an average mobile voice subscriber used 158 minutes (1% annual decrease), sent 34.8 texts (1.72% annual increase), and used 18.7GB of data (3.82% annual increase).<\/p>\n
The Quarterly Key Data Report for Q4 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"