According to ComReg data, Co Laois has the highest county-wide broadband coverage at 89pc.

Eir, the Irish telecommunications company, had the highest revenue share of 39pc in the country’s communications market this quarter, according to ComReg, the Irish communications regulator, in its latest quarterly report.

Data from ComReg suggests that seven other companies, including Virgin Media Ireland, Vodafone and BT Ireland, together make up the other 43.8pc market, with other smaller operators taking the remaining 17.2pc share.

As of this quarter, there were more than 1.6m active total fixed broadband subscriber lines in Ireland, a more than 2.6pc increase since last year.

Eir has showed continued momentum in the growth of its fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP)  coverage with more than 480,000 active FTTP subscribers as of Q3 2024 – up by 6pc from the last quarter.

Moreover, according to ComReg, Co Laois has the highest county-wide broadband coverage at 89pc with Co Leitrim having the fastest growing FTTP coverage within 2023, showcasing a 29pc point increase in coverage when compared to the previous quarter.

Meanwhile, 71pc of all premises in Ireland had FFTP broadband available at the end of the third quarter – an 11pc increase since last year – with a majority of the counties having a 70pc coverage or more.

However, Co Leitrim and Co Dublin show considerably lower rates of FFTP coverage at less than 60pc and Co Monaghan and Co Offaly having a coverage of less than 70pc. Although, Dublin had the highest level of FTTP and/or cable coverage at 92pc.

Co Meath had the highest level of FFTP take up at 61pc and Co Waterford had the fastest growing FTTP take-up rate in 2023, with a 9pc point increase in take-up compared to the same period last year.

Similar to its FTTP market share, Eir holds nearly 1.3m  broadband lines in the country – the highest by far, and significantly higher than Siro, which comes in at the second place at a little more than 600,000 as of this quarter.

According to ComReg’s data, as of the latest quarter, there were more than 10m mobile subscriptions in Ireland, including mobile broadband and Machine-to-Machine services with Three leading the charge holding the largest share at 48pc, followed by Vodafone at 29pc and Eir at 14.8pc.

Eircom, which publicly trades as Eir was fined €2.8m by ComReg due to a failure to allow other operates access to infrastructure records.

Meanwhile in 2018, Eir agreed to pay €3m in penalty to settle a case taken against it by ComReg over allegations that it favoured its own retail division when it came to granting access and repairing lines.

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