ComReg have announced the total amount spend on telecommunications by Irish consumers up to July 2017. Irish consumers spent over 3billion euro on TV, broadband, mobile phones, mobile data, text messaging and voice calls. Both Text Messaging and Voice Calls saw a decrease in use with just 1 hour and 10 minutes of voice calls per month and 28 text messages, however mobile data use was up 75% to 4.1GB per month with the rise of free Voice over IP apps and text services.