Eir says its seeing a continuing momentum in TV and its eir sport channel.
The Irish telco has grown its TV base to 63,000 customers with the service being taken by 29% of its consumer fibre-base.
“We have a fantastic set of content rights which we are using to differentiate our consumer broadband offering. eir Sport subscriber numbers have increased significantly, driven by exclusive content such as the historic Ireland versus New Zealand rugby match and the McGregor UFC fights, and there are now over 200,000 customers watching eir Sport across a range of platforms including TV, laptops, tablets and handheld devices,” said CEO Richard Moat.
Eir is on track to reach 1.9m premises with high speed broadband by end of 2018 with 53,000 homes and businesses passed with FTTH.
It declared EBITDA of €121m, up €4 million or 4% year on year.
