Market statistics
The latest statistics published by ComReg March 9th for the Irish communications market (Euro, subscriber units, traffic minutes, percentages):
| | Q4 2016 | Q3 2016 | Q/Q chg | Annual chg |
| Total retail market rev | 786,979,056 | 771,259,282 | 2.00% | 1.6% |
| Fixed line retail rev | 352,168,098 | 343,428,620 | 2.50% | 6.0% |
| Mobile retail rev | 401,847,730 | 394,265,887 | 0 | -0.40% |
| Broadcast retail rev | 32,963,228 | 33,564,775 | (1.8%) | (15.8%) |
| Fixed wholesale rev | 139,675,999 | 144,195,780 | (3.1%) | (4.5%) |
| Mobile wholesale rev | 49,649,788 | 66,702,057 | -25.60% | (35.7%) |
| Voice traffic mins | 4,148,560,007 | 4,151,766,387 | -0.10% | (1.7%) |
| Fixed voice mins | 1,022,409,364 | 1,031,864,645 | -0.90% | (6.6%) |
| Mobile voice mins | 3,126,150,643 | 3,119,901,742 | 0.20% | 0.1% |
| Fixed b/band subscriptions | 1,360,309 | 1,342,727 | 1.30% | 3.9% |
| Fixed subscriptions | 1,805,923 | 1, 798,609 | 0.40% | (0.9%) |
| Fixed voice subscriptions | 1,475,661 | 1,468,960 | 0.50% | (0.4%) |
| Total mobile subscriptions | 5,969,928 | 5,937,883 | 0.50% | 2.0% |
| M2M subscriptions | 670,389 | 647,894 | 3.5% | 21.0% |
| Mobile b/band subs | 349,421 | 361,463 | (3.3%) | (12.5%) |
| Other mobile subscriptions | 4,950,118 | 4,928,526 | 0.40% | 1.0% |
Breakdown by type of active broadband subscriptions for Q4 2016 and quarterly and annual growth-rates:
| Q4 2016 | Q4/Q3 2016 growth | Q4 2016/15 growth | |
| DSL Broadband | 435,253 | (5.3%) | (17.0%) |
| VDSL Broadband | 498,844 | 7.8% | 40.0% |
| Cable Broadband | 366,699 | 0.1% | (1.9%) |
| FTTP | 7,623 | 20.2% | 38.8% |
| Satellite | 5,291 | (0.5%) | (9.5%) |
| FWA Broadband | 46,599 | 9.3% | 7.6% |
| Total fixed B/band | 1,360,309 | 1.30% | 3.9% |
| Mobile Broadband | 349,421 | (3.3%) | (12.5%) |
| Total Broadband | 1,709,930 | 0.30% | 0.1% |
(NB: ComReg notes the FTTP number is artificial due to some recent changes in methodology.)
TV Homes by reception type for January 2017 vs January 2016 (thousands of homes):
| Jan 2017 | Jan 2016 | |
| Total TV homes | 1,578 | 1,569 |
| Irish terrestrial | 191 | 186 |
| Multi total | 1,387 | 1,383 |
| Analogue cable/sat | 16 | 21 |
| Digital cable/sat | 1,371 | 1,362 |
| IPTV | 51 | 29 |
Market share data by sector Q4 2016
Fixed retail revenue market share by vendor for Q4
Fixed revenue shares were as follows: Eir 43.5%, OAOs 12.5%; Virgin Media 14.7%, Vodafone 14.3%, BT 5.3%, Verizon 2.1%, Sky Ireland 4.9%, and Magnet 2.7% (OAO is other authorised operators with below 2% market share in a quarter; in previous quarters AT&T and Digiweb had market shares above 2%).
Fixed voice subscriptions market share by vendor for Q4
Voice subscriber shares were as follows: Eir 39.9%, Virgin Media 23.9%, Vodafone 15.3%, Sky Ireland=11.2%, Pure Telecom 2.9%, Digiweb 2.5%, and OAOs 4.4% (over the last three years Eir’s market share has fallen 10 points from 49.9% in Q4 2013 and Sky Ireland’s market share over the same period has risen 7.4 points from 3.8% in Q4 2013).
Fixed broadband subscriptions market share by vendor Q4
Fixed broadband shares were as follows: Eir 32.6%, Virgin Media 26.8%, Vodafone 19.7%, Sky Ireland 11.8%, OAOs 9.2%.
Total mobile subscriptions market share in Q4
Mobile subscriber market shares (including mobile broadband and M2M) were: Vodafone 38.5%, Three Group 34.9%, Eir Group Mobile 18.0%, Tesco Mobile 6.0%, OAOs 2.6%.
Mobile broadband subscriptions market share Q4
Mobile broadband subscriber shares were: Three Group 43.3%, Vodafone 43.9%, Eir Mobile 11.1%, OAOs 1.8%.
Companies that make returns to ComReg data for its quarterly reports: Airspeed Telecom; AT&T Global Network Services Ireland; ATS Voice; Blueface; BT Communications Ireland; Casey Cablevision; Colt Technology Services; Crossan Cablecom; DigitalForge; Digiweb; Edge Telecommunications; Eircom; E-Net; Equant operations in Ireland (EGN BV and ENS); ESB Telecoms; EuNetworks Ireland Private Fiber; Europasat Satellite Ireland; Fastcom Broadband; Fulnett, t/a Strencom; ID; IFA Telecom; Imagine Group; Level 3 Communications (Ireland); Lycamobile Ireland; Magnet Networks; Meteor Mobile Communications; Modeva Networks; Nova Networks; Permanet; Postmobile; Pure Telecom; Rapid Broadband; Ripplecom; Sky Ireland; SprintLink Ireland; Tesco Mobile Ireland; Three Ireland(Hutchison); Virgin Media Business; Virgin Media Ireland; Verizon Ireland; and Vodafone Ireland (total 41).
