ComReg's latest Quarterly report - which covers the second quarter of 2005 - show that in the three months to the end of June, there was a 15% increase in broadband subscriptions. The Commission for Communications Regulation says that broadband's growth rate over the past 12 months is 170%.
The report reveals that as of June 2005, there were 175,500 broadband subscribers in Ireland.
The ComReg report also says that there are now over 373,000 Carrier Pre-Select lines in the fixed line telephone sector. It says that consumers are increasingly opting to take their line rental from one of a growing range of wholesale line rental/single billing customers. There are now a total of 146,000 single bill lines, or almost 40% of all indirect access paths.
Mobile penetration rates now stand at 94% of the population. ComReg says that each mobile phone subscriber sends 91 text messages a month on average. Over the past 12 months, a total of four billion text messages were sent by Irish mobile users.
The quarterly report also shows that almost six out of ten people with a pay TV service subscribe to digital TV services. Of all households in the country with a television, 40% have a digital television service.
