Fixed broadband subscriber lines increased to 1.69 million between October and December last year, up 2.4% on the same time last year.
New data from the Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) reveals that over 50% of these lines were fibre-to-the premises (FTTP) lines, up 10%.
FTTP is the most purchased broadband technology and is available at 74% of all premises in Ireland.
Meanwhile, gigabit broadband is available at 85% of all premises in Ireland.
On a monthly basis an average residential fixed broadband subscriber line used 506.75 GB of data, an increase of 14% since the same period in 2023.
Businesses have used 343.55 GB of data, an increase of 24%.
Over 65% of fixed broadband subscriber lines had purchased broadband with speeds equal to or greater than 500Mbps, up from 44% the previous year.
18% had purchased broadband speeds equal to or greater than 1Gbps.
Total mobile subscriptions, including mobile broadband and machine-to-machine (M2M)) increased to 10.3 million between October and December last year – driven by a rise in bill pay subscriptions which represent 76% of all mobile subscriptions.
5G subscribers increased to 1.99 million, an increase of 28% on the same time the previous year.
On a monthly basis, an average mobile voice subscriber used 158 minutes, down 1% and sent 34.8 texts.
Meanwhile data usage was up almost 4% to 18.7GB per month.
