MAP > Internet Providers in Croatia

Telecoms market in the Croatia country has easily been shaped by the country having joined European Union in the year 2013, the process which resulted in the market liberalization as well as the creation of the regulatory environment that is very conducive to the competition. The alternative operators have gone and entered the market, and there has been an effective competition in fixed line, the mobile markets, and broadband. The operators have been investing in the network infrastructure to be able to support bandwidth-intensive services. As similar with the developments elsewhere in Europe, the investment has been earmarked for the fiber as well as the mobile infrastructure while fixed voice market has continued to dwindle.

Mobile market is one of best penetration rates in Balkans region, three network operators have dominated the market, and hence there is also the room for the small number of the MVNOs. Network operators have majorly focused on the improvement of the ARPU by being able to encourage the prepaid subscribers to be able to migrate to the postpaid plans and also growing the revenue from the customer use of the mobile data services. To that end, considerable work has been ongoing to be able to upgrade the network infrastructure. 

With incumbent telco Hrvatski Telekom getting to spearhead the trials of the 5G technologies as well as services. This report offers the review of Croatia’s fixed-line markets, getting cover the regulatory developments, the fixed line infrastructure as well as financing and the operating performance of main operators. This report does also analyze developing the broadband market, and this includes a wide variety of statistics as well as the subscriber’s forecasts. Also, the report gets to assess mobile voice as well as the data segments, with well detailing financial as well as the performance statistics of service providers, getting to assess the network developments as well as technologies and also examining the range of the mobile services including the m-commerce.

Some key developments:

• The report updates do include regulator’s market data to the year 2018 June, the telco’s operating as well as the financial data to the Q2 of the year 2018, with the recent market developments.
• Regulator gets to allocate the remaining 800 MHz spectrum.
• The government gets to abolish 6% tax on the mobile services revenue.
• The government launches the national program for development of the shared Broadband infrastructure program.