Croatia - Key Statistics, Telecom Market and Regulatory Overviews

Synopsis

The Croatian telecoms market has been shaped by the country’s bid to join the European Union, resulting in market liberalisation and creation of a regulatory environment conducive to competition. Alternative operators have entered the market and launched competing services in the fixed-line market. Both alternative operators and the incumbent are investing in network infrastructure to support bandwidth-intensive services such as broadband access and triple play. This report provides a concise overview of Croatia’s fixed-line market, covering regulatory developments, fixed-line infrastructure used to offer services, financial and performance data on significant fixed-line operators as well as the wholesale and IT markets.

Key developments:

GDP shows moderate rise in 2011; state transfers remaining shares in T-HT to Pensioners’ Fund; Croatia votes to join EU; regulator’s market data to Q3 2011; operator data to September 2011.

Companies covered in this report include:

T-HT, Optima Telekom, Metronet.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
• 2. Key statistics
• 3. Telecommunications market
  • 3.1 Overview of Croatia’s telecom market
• 4. Regulatory environment
  • 4.1 Background
  • 4.2 EU regulatory framework
  • 4.3 Revised NFR
  • 4.4 Regulatory authority
  • 4.5 Telecom sector liberalisation in Croatia
    • 4.5.1 Privatisation
    • 4.5.2 Interconnect
    • 4.5.3 Access
    • 4.5.4 Number portability (NP)
    • 4.5.5 Carrier PreSelection (CPS)
• 5. Fixed network operators in Croatia
  • 5.1 T-Hrvatski Telekom (T-HT)
  • 5.2 Optima Telekom
  • 5.3 Metronet
• 6. Telecommunications infrastructure
  • 6.1 Overview
  • 6.2 Telecoms and IT
• 7. Wholesaling
  • 7.1 Overview
• 8. Related reports

• Table 1 – Country statistics – 2011 (e)
• Table 2 – Telephone network statistics – September 2011
• Table 3 – Internet user statistics – 2011 (e)
• Table 4 – Internet subscriber statistics – 2011 (e)
• Table 5 – Broadband subscriber statistics – 2011 (e)
• Table 6 – Mobile statistics – 2011 (e)
• Table 7 – National telecommunications authority
• Table 8 – T-HT unbundled lines – 2008 - 2011
• Table 9 – Cost of LLU and shared access lines – 2010
• Table 10 – Ported numbers – 2005 - 2011
• Table 11 – T-HT CPS lines – 2008 - 2011
• Table 12 – Fixed-line market share by operator – 2008 - 2011
• Table 13 – T-Hrvatski Telekom financial data – 2009 - 2011
• Table 14 – T-Hrvatski Telekom revenue by sector – 9M 2010 – 9M 2011
• Table 15 – T-Hrvatski Telekom fixed lines by type – 2005 - 2011
• Table 16 – Optima Telekom financial data by sector– 2010 - 2011
• Table 17 – Optima Telekom financial data – 2010 - 2011
• Table 18 – Optima Telekom operational data – 2010 - 2011
• Table 19 – Fixed lines in service and teledensity – 2000 - 2011
• Table 20 – T-HT unbundled local loops – 2007 - 2011

• Chart 1 – Fixed-line market share by operator – 2008 – 2011
• Chart 2 – T-Hrvatski Telekom financial data – 2009 – 2011

• Exhibit 1 – The EU regulatory framework for communications
• Exhibit 2 – Access and the local loop