1 in 3 mobile phone users affected by signal disruptions during Storm Éowyn

Mr O’Donovan, Minister for Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport, met with senior managers in the country’s mobile phone and broadband operators as well as representatives from Telecommunications Industry Ireland (TII). File Picture

Storm Éowyn’s battering of mobile phone networks affected, at its height, more than a third of mobile phone users, according to the Government.

In addition, one in ten landline phone services were cut during the peak of the storm, which the telecommunications regulator, ComReg, said was the worst in its 13-year history.