*Note that I've updated the drop in market share from 50% to 37% (see below).
Ouch.
Following the revelation that 3 Ireland had been misreporting figures to Comreg earlier this year, the regulator has been busy revising all of its market statistics.
It has just released the new, revised statistics on its website. And it shows a fairly steep drop in 3 Ireland's market share compared to its original statistics.
3's market share was reported as being 9.2% (including mobile broadband) and 6.1% (excluding mobile broadband) of the Irish market. The real figures, say Comreg, were 5.8% (including mobile broadband) and 2.4% (excluding mobile broadband).
That's a whopping 37 per cent fall of its reported market share, including mobile broadband statistics. It's an even steeper 60 per cent fall in its phone-only market share (excluding mobile broadband services). The main benficiary seems to be Vodafone, which is now up to over 42% market share.
[Update: I originally quoted a fall of 50 per cent in that portion of 3's market share figure that includes mobile broadband; that was off the mark and a product of my gammy maths. The correct figure is 37 per cent, as 3 Ireland has correctly pointed out.]
* Both sets of figures quoted relate to Q1, 2010.
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