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.

eir (formally eircom) have announce that they are to at last drop their mobile phone brand Meteor in favour of eir mobile. Meteor was awarded the the 3rd mobile phone licence in 2001 and was launch as a more youth centric market. The company was taken over by eir in 2005, in 2010 eMobile was launch by eir on the Meteor network, in 2013 it announced its 4G plans.