The average Irish person sends 5.85 text messages a day. That is according to the latest report from ComReg which says the Irish love affair with texting seems to be on the wane.

2.4 billion text messages were sent between April and June of this year. But that is down from nearly 2.7 billion between January and March. It is thought that the growing popularity of options like WhatsApp, iMessage and Facebook Chat mean people are now sending fewer texts.

Within the mobile sector, ComReg says voice and text revenues are decreasing while mobile data revenues are rising.

Average revenue per user for mobile services in in the second quarter of 2013 was €27 per month, down from €29 a year earlier. It says the drop is due, in part, to lower priced mobile plans and increased sales of bundled products.

Mobile market accounts for 73.7% of all subscriptions

There were 5,438,144 mobile service subscriptions at the end of June which was a decrease of 0.3% on the previous quarter. But the mobile penetration rate here for the quarter was still high at 118.3%.

The mobile market accounts for just over 73% of all voice and internet subscriptions, with fixed market subscriptions representing the remaining 26%.

The regulator says that average fixed broadband speeds here continue to increase, with some 29% of all fixed broadband subscriptions equal to or greater than 30 megabytes per second, which is up from 19.6% in same period last year.

Overall broadband subscriptions also rose by 0.7% compared to the same period in 2012, while the estimated household broadband penetration rate now stands at 65%.