Close to a quarter of eir’s fibre customers now subscribe to the Irish telco’s TV service.
In its six monthly financials published Wednesday the company said the eir Vision fibre base now now stands at 45,000 customers, 24% of the consumer fibre base.
However, the number of retail broadband lines has fallen by 3,000 since June 2015. It now stands at 817,000 having grown by 19,000 in the quarter to December 31 and 35,000 in the six months to the end of December. It’s been compensated for by a 38,000 increase in wholesale broadband connections since June.
Huib Costermans, CFO eir, said “The Irish market provides a highly competitive landscape for the telecommunications sector. Nevertheless, half way through the year we remain on track for our stated outlook of low single digit bottom line growth for the full financial year.”
A total of 358,000 customers were using fibre-based high speed broadband services at the end of the quarter which saw growth of 32,000 connections during the period and 77,000 since 30 June 2015.
Revenue in the quarter of €328 million increased by 4% or €12 million compared to the corresponding prior year.
