Croatia - Mobile Infrastructure, Broadband, Operators - Statistics and Analyses

Synopsis

Croatia’s mobile market has one of the highest penetration rates in the Balkans region. Three network operators dominate the market, though there is also room for a small number of Mobile Virtual Network Operators. Operators have focused on improving ARPU by encouraging prepaid subscribers to migrate to postpaid plans, and on developing revenue from customer use of mobile data services. To this end considerable investment is ongoing in upgraded network infrastructure, despite the poor economic climate which has held back customer spend. In a bid to reduce State debt, the government tripled the annual fee paid by licensees for spectrum, which has led to increased pricing.

This report offers a concise overview of Croatia’s mobile market, including a variety of financial and performance statistics on service providers. It reviews network developments and deployed technologies, and examines a range of mobile services including m-commerce.

Key developments:

Hrvatski Telekom launches Croatia’s first NB-IoT network;
Regulator sets new fixed and mobile termination rates to 2019;
VIPnet to be rebranded as A1;
Hrvatski Telekom trials LTE-Advanced Pro technology to deliver data at up to 500Mb/s;
LTE services now widespread as smartphone use increases;
Government abolishes 6% tax on mobile services revenue;
Regulator allocates remaining 800MHz spectrum;
Report update includes the regulator’s market data to March 2018, telcos’ operating and financial data to Q1 2018, recent market developments.

Companies mentioned in this report:

T-Hrvatski Telekom (T-HT), VIPnet, Tele2 Croatia.

1. Synopsis
2. Market analysis
3. Mobile statistics
- 3.1 General statistics
4. Mobile infrastructure
- 4.1 Digital networks
  - 4.1.1 Third generation (3G) mobile
  - 4.1.2 Long-term Evolution (LTE)
- 4.2 IoT and M2M networks
5. Mobile data
- 5.1 SMS/ MMS
6. Mobile broadband
- 6.1 Regulatory issues
  - 6.1.1 Third GSM licence and 3G licences
  - 6.1.2 Fourth GSM licence
  - 6.1.3 Spectrum auctions
  - 6.1.4 Spectrum fees
  - 6.1.5 Mobile Number Portability (MNP)
- 6.2 Roaming
  - 6.2.1 Network Termination Rates (MTRs)
7. Major mobile operators
- 7.1 T-HT
- 7.2 VIPnet
- 7.3 Tele2 Croatia
- 7.4 Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs)
8. Mobile content and applications
- 8.1 M-commerce
9. Related reports

Table 1 – Historic – Active mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 1997 - 2009
Table 2 – Active mobile subscribers and penetration rate – 2010 - 2019
Table 3 – Mobile market share of subscribers – 2008 - 2017
Table 4 – Mobile network traffic – 2010 - 2018
Table 5 – Mobile market revenue – 2012 - 2018
Table 6 – Total prepaid users – 2002 - 2018
Table 7 – T-HT mobile prepaid subscribers – 2001 - 2018
Table 8 – VIPnet prepaid subscribers – 2004 - 2017
Table 9 – Mobile data traffic – 2014 - 2015
Table 10 – Total SMS and MMS messages sent – 2003 - 2018
Table 11 – Mobile broadband subscribers and penetration – 2012 - 2018
Table 12 – Dedicated mobile broadband subscribers – 2007 - 2018
Table 13 – VIPnet mobile broadband subscribers – 2008 - 2018
Table 14 – Accumulated mobile ported numbers – 2006 - 2018
Table 15 – Annual mobile number portings – 2006 - 2018
Table 16 – European roaming charges – 2007 – 2016
Table 17 – European data roaming charges – 2014 - 2017
Table 18 – T-HT mobile revenue (€) – 2004 - 2017
Table 19 – T-HT Group mobile revenue (HRK) – 2012 - 2018
Table 20 – T-HT mobile annualised ARPU – 2004 - 2018
Table 21 – T-HT mobile customers – 2007 - 2018
Table 22 – VIPnet prepaid, postpaid and blended monthly ARPU – 2004 - 2018
Table 23 – VIPnet Minutes of Use (MOU) – 2007 - 2018
Table 24 – VIPnet subscribers – 2007 - 2018
Table 25 – Tele2 financial data – 2007 - 2018
Table 26 – Tele2 revenue by type – 2015 - 2018
Table 27 – Tele2 subscribers – 2007 - 2018