Quarterly Key Data Report Q1 2026

1. Background

ComReg collects statistical data from authorised operators on a quarterly basis. Not all such operators are included in this data collection (based on minimum revenue levels), but ComReg aims to represent 95% of the total markets. This data includes information on subscriptions, lines, revenues, broadband speeds, minutes and data usage for both fixed and mobile voice and broadband. The data and charts included below are a subset of the information collected. The detailed presentations of data are available on the ComReg data portal.

Map visualisations for ‘FTTP’ and ‘Gigabit’ Coverage and Take-Up statistics by County, Local Electoral Area, Electoral Division and other Geographic units can be found at ComReg’s Open Data Map Hub.

Data presented in this Summary of the Quarterly Key Data is based on questionnaires completed by certain authorised operators for the period from 1^st January 2026 to 31^st March 2026. The report is based on submissions from 55 active operators.

Q1 2026 Infographic

2. Overview of Irish Communications Market Q1 2026

Table 1 – Communications Summary

Fixed Market

• In Q1 2026, Eir had the highest wholesale revenue share in the fixed line market at 45.1%.
• ComReg estimates that the next seven largest operators (ECL (formerly BT), NBI, SIRO, Virgin Media Ireland, Vodafone, E-Net and Colt Technologies) contribute a further 50.4% share of fixed line retail market revenue.
• Remaining other authorised operators (OAOs) account for the residual 4.5% share.

Figure 1 – Fixed Line Market Shares (Wholesale Revenue) Q4 2024 – Q1 2026

Retail Fixed Voice Market

• Fixed voice traffic in Q1 2026 was approximately 208 million minutes, which was a 1.2% increase on Q4 2025 and a decrease of 8.7% since Q1 2025.
• At the end of Q1 2026, there were 989,867 fixed voice subscriber lines, a decrease of 0.6% since Q4 2025 and a decrease of 5.9% since Q1 2025.
• As of Q1 2026, Eir had 56.4% of all fixed voice subscriber lines followed by Virgin Media (12.9%), Vodafone (12.2%), Sky Ireland (5.6%), Pure Telecom (2.8%) and Digiweb (3.5%). Other operators accounted for the remaining 6.5% of fixed voice subscriber lines.

Figure 2 – Retail Fixed Voice Subscriber Lines

3. Retail Broadband Market

• At the end of March 2026, there were almost 2.17 million active total Broadband subscriber lines in Ireland.
• This is a 0.4% increase from the previous quarter and a 3.4% increase on Q1 2025.
• Looking at total Fixed Broadband lines only, these increased by 0.6% since Q4 2025, with a 4.2% annual increase on Q1 2025.

Table 2 – Total Number of Active Broadband Subscriber Lines

• FTTP (+4.1%) and Satellite (+10.9%) broadband subscriber lines showed positive growth this quarter.
• VDSL (-5.9%), DSL (-7.7%), Cable (-3.4%), FWA (-7.5%) and Mobile Broadband (-0.16%) subscriber lines fell this quarter.

Figure 3 – Retail Fixed Broadband Market Shares based on Subscriber Lines

• In Q1 2026, Eir had 28.0% of total retail fixed broadband subscriber lines, followed by Vodafone at 20.7%, Virgin Media at 19.9%, Sky Ireland at 15.8%, Pure Telecom at 2.5%, Digiweb at 2.2% and Three Group at 2.2%.
• All other authorised operators (OAOs) combined accounted for the remaining 8.7% share of retail fixed broadband subscriber lines.

Table 3 – Retail Fixed Broadband Subscriber Lines by Sold Download Speed

• In Q1 2026, 81.2% of all fixed broadband subscriber lines had sold download speeds which were equal to or greater than 100Mbps, with 72.1% having sold download speeds equal to or greater than 500Mbps.
• Those having sold download speeds equal to or greater than 1GB increased by 2.0 percentage points quarter on quarter and stood at 25.9%.

Figure 4 – FTTP Subscriber Line Market Share

• In Q1 2026, Eir had 32.9% of retail Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) subscriber lines, followed by Vodafone at 27.2%, Sky Ireland at 21.8%, Virgin Media at 7.3%, Digiweb at 2.6% and Pure Telecom at 2.5%.
• Other operators accounted for the remaining 5.6%.

4. Broadband Market – Networks

Figure 5 – Network FTTP Active Subscriber Lines by Quarter

• In Q1 2026, based on the underlying network, 595k (up 3% QoQ) of the active FTTP subscriber lines were sold on the Eir network
• 221k (up 2% QoQ) were on the Siro network
• 170k (up 6% QoQ) were on the NBI network
• 108k (up 12% QoQ) were on the Virgin Media network
• 1k were on the Magnet Network.

Figure 6 – Network FTTP Broadband Rollout (No. of Lines) by Quarter

• In Q1 2026, Eir reported having rolled out 1.50m (up 1.3% QoQ) FTTP broadband lines, followed by Siro with 705k (up 1.5% QoQ), Virgin Media Ireland with 620k (up 1.2% QoQ), NBI with 465k (up 5% QoQ), with Magnet having rolled out 11.7k lines and Crossan 63 lines.

Total Gigabit (FTTP and Cable) Coverage

• Map visualisations for Gigabit Coverage and Take-Up statistics by County, Local Electoral Area, Electoral Division and other geographic units can be found at ComReg’s Open Data Map Hub
• 86% (up 1.4 percentage points QoQ) of all premises (as measured by Eircodes) in Ireland had FTTP broadband available at the end of Q1 2026.
• 91.1% (up 1.1 percentage points QoQ) of all premises (as measured by Eircodes) in Ireland had Gigabit broadband available at the end of Q1 2026.
• The county with the highest level of FTTP coverage is Westmeath at 95%. Westmeath and Longford have the highest level of Gigabit coverage at 96%. Every county had a minimum of 77% FTTP coverage at the end of Q1.
• Leitrim has the fastest growing FTTP coverage within the last year, with a 20-percentage point annual increase in FTTP coverage to now stand at 88% coverage.
• Leitrim shows the highest quarter‑on‑quarter increase in FTTP coverage, rising by 4-percentage points compared with the previous quarter.
• ComReg’s Open Data Map Hub includes additional geographic units including Local Electoral Area, Electoral Division and Small Area.

Total Gigabit (FTTP and Cable) Coverage

• In terms of FTTP take-up (active FTTP broadband premises divided by premises where FTTP is available), 51.9% of all premises (up 2 percentage points YoY) with FTTP broadband available had an active FTTP service at the end of Q1 2026.
• 60.5% of premises with FTTP or Cable available had an active FTTP or Cable service at the end of Q1 2026.
• The maps set out below show County level ‘FTTP’ and ‘Gigabit’ take-up rate by County for Q1 2026.
• The county with the highest level of FTTP take-up is Meath at 65%. Longford had the fastest growing FTTP take-up rate within the last year, with a 6.5-percentage point increase in take-up compared to Q1 2025.
• See ComReg’s Open Data Map Hub for further map visualisations on Gigabit broadband.

Total Gigabit (FTTP and Cable) Take-Up

• In terms of FTTP take-up (active FTTP broadband premises divided by premises where FTTP is available), 51.9% of all premises (up 2 percentage points YoY) with FTTP broadband available had an active FTTP service at the end of Q1 2026.
• 60.5% of premises with FTTP or Cable available had an active FTTP or Cable service at the end of Q1 2026.
• The maps set out below show County level ‘FTTP’ and ‘Gigabit’ take-up rate by County for Q1 2026.
• The county with the highest level of FTTP take-up is Meath at 65%. Longford had the fastest growing FTTP take-up rate within the last year, with a 6.5-percentage point increase in take-up compared to Q1 2025.
• See ComReg’s Open Data Map Hub for further map visualisations on Gigabit broadband.

5. Mobile Market

At the end of Q1 2026 there were 10,920,348 mobile subscriptions in Ireland, including mobile broadband (MBB) and Machine to Machine (M2M). If mobile broadband subscriptions (393,356) and M2M subscriptions (4,427,745) are excluded, the total number of mobile voice subscriptions was 6,099,247.

Figure 7 – Market Shares by Subscription including Mobile Broadband and Machine to Machine

In Q1 2026 Three had the largest share of mobile subscriptions including MBB and M2M at 49.9%. This was followed by Vodafone with 26.6%, Eir with 14.6%, Tesco Mobile at 4.5%, Lyca Mobile at 1.6%, Virgin Mobile at 1.4%, Sky Mobile at 0.8% and An Post Mobile at 0.5%.

Figure 8 – Market Shares by Subscription excluding Mobile Broadband and Machine to Machine

In Q1 2026 Vodafone had the highest market share excluding mobile broadband and M2M (32.0%), followed by Three (27.6%), Eir (24.9%), Tesco Mobile (8.1%), Lyca (2.6%), Virgin Mobile (2.4%), Sky Mobile (1.4%) and An Post Mobile (0.9%).

Figure 9 – Mobile Subscriptions by Technology

There were 2,740,046 2G (25.09%), 200,993 3G (1.84%), 3,786,156 4G (34.67%) and 3,197,334 5G (29.28%) mobile subscriptions in Q1 2026. 995,818 (9.1%) mobile subscriptions did not record any use of data in Q1

6. Revisions

Note 1: BTBTIL revised revenue and voice line subscribers for Q4 2025.

Note 2: ECL (formerly BT) revised revenue for Q4 2025.

Note 3: Telcom revised revenue breakdown between Q2 – Q4 2025.

Note 4: Centurylink (Lumen Technologies) revised revenue for Q4 2025.

Note 5: Lyca Mobile revised revenue for Q4 2025.

7. Appendix 1: Legal Disclaimer

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