Croatia's 2021 Electronic Communications Market Revenues Up 3.6%
ZAGREB, 11 March (2022) - The Croatian electronic communications market generated HRK 11.5 billion in revenues in 2021, up by 3.6% on 2020, while investment increased by 20.5% to exceed HRK 3 billion, according to data from the regulatory authority for network industries HAKOM.
Of the total revenue, HRK 615 million was generated by very high capacity fixed networks, which is an increase of 115.5% compared with 2020. The number of optical fibre connections increased by 33.7%.
Revenues from broadband internet services increased by 11%, from network and cable leasing services by 4.6% and from pay television by 4.2%.
The share of broadband users with speeds above 30Mbit/ increased from 42.1% in 2020 to 59% in 2021, while the share of those using speeds above 100Mbit/s rose from 16% to 28%.
In the last quarter of 2021, the number of pay television connections increased by 2% as nearly 59% of households used some form of pay television.
In Q4 2021, revenues from television services increased by 4% to HRK 216.2 million compared with the same period in 2020.
On the other hand, revenues from mobile telephone services fell by 8.6% to HRK 975 million compared with the fourth quarter of 2020, even though the number of users rose by 0.6% to 4.4 million.
Revenues from fixed-line telephone services decreased by 4.7% to HRK 263.1 million and the number of users of these services dropped by 2.2% to 1.2 million.
In the last quarter of 2021, revenues from internet access increased by 7% to HRK 1.3 billion, of which HRK 842.1 million (+11.3%) was generated by mobile access services.
The number of mobile broadband internet connections rose by 2.4% to 5.7 million, while the number of fixed-line broadband internet connections went up by 1.7% to 1 million.
(€1 = HRK 7.5)
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Croatian Electronic Communications Market Sees Increases in Revenue and Investment
ZAGREB, 19 Sept , 2021 - The Croatian electronic communications market saw a 5% increase in total revenues in the first half of 2021 compared with the same period in 2020, while operators' investments rose by 4%, according to the data provided by the Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries (HAKOM).
Revenues from broadband Internet access increased by 10%, from network rental by 7% and from pay television by 4%.
Investment in fiber optic infrastructure rose by 121%, and the number of connections using this technology went up by 32%.
In the second quarter of the year the share of high-speed broadband connections of 30 Mbit/s and higher was 49% of the total number of connections. The number of broadband connections of 100 Mbit/s and higher is also increasing, reaching 22% in the total number of connections in the second quarter of 2021.
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Internet Traffic in Q2 Up Almost 50%
ZAGREB, September 13, 2020 - Internet traffic in Q2 2020 grew by close to 50% from the same period of 2019 yet the total income of the electronic communications market in H1 dropped by 5.4%, the Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries (HAKOM) said this week.
The electronic communications market in Q2 was affected by the continuation of the COVID-19 pandemic, with primary and secondary schools as well as institutions of higher education having held online classes, just as many companies across the country introduced teleworking.
Considering the situation, data traffic and the number of mobile phone minutes grew as expected compared to the same period of 2019, with data traffic in April this year reaching record high consumption compared to all previous measuring, 191 PB, a 58% increase on April 2019.
Quarterly, data traffic grew by 46% from the same period of 2019, HAKOM said.
The total number of outgoing mobile network minutes also grew, by 18% from Q2 2019. At the same time, total mobile services revenue dropped by 17%.
In Q2, own users' roaming minutes dropped by 20% as did the duration of roaming phone calls by foreign nationals, by 52% from Q2 2019, also a result of the pandemic and travel ban.
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