Irish mobile retail revenues grow 4 percent

There are 4.37 million 2G and 3G mobile subscribers in Ireland, according to figures from the Irish regulator ComReg. The mobile penetration rate stands at 103 percent. The proportion of prepaid customers is stable at 76 percent, with the remaining 24 percent being postpaid subscribers.

Mobile retail revenue for the quarter was EUR 477 million, a 4 percent increase on the previous quarter based on revised revenue calculations for the market. Market share by revenues is led by Vodafone with 48 percent, O2 has 41.2 percent of the market and Meteor has 10.8 percent of the market. Some 71,500 people used mobile number portability in the quarter and a total of 614,500 switched providers retaining their number since MNP was launched in 2003. Mobile ARPU in Ireland is estimated at EUR 47.06 per month in Q2, having fallen slightly for the second consecutive quarter.

Mobile voice traffic totalled in excess of 1.7 billion minutes in the quarter, a 10 percent increase in the quarter, and a 23 percent increase in voice volumes year-on-year. SMS messaging in the quarter continued to grow in popularity, with almost 1.5 billion messages sent, which is an average of 114 SMS messages per subscription per month.

Source- http://www.telecompaper.com

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