Eircom, the country’s largest broadband provider, has captured more than 66pc of the fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) market, while its key competitor, Siro, saw its share decline to 27pc. In its market monitoring report, ComReg, the Irish communications regulator, has provided insights into the developments in the retail and wholesale fixed broadband market. Eir is succeeding in most facets of the fixed broadband retail and wholesale market that ComReg analysed. Following Eir, Siro surpassed 609,000 FTTP premises, National Broadband Ireland (NBI) passed 300,000 premises and Virgin Media passed 336,000 premises in the country. This is reflected in Eir’s ‘next generation’ market share – including both FTTP and FTTC services – which fell from 84pc to 78pc.