Telecommunications in Croatia

Telephones - main lines in use: 1.825 million (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 2.553 million (2003)

Mobile operators:

• T-Mobile Croatia
• VIPnet
• From fall 2005, the new mobile operator Tele2 will activate its network.
• A fourth mobile license has been given to a Syrian mobile investor, which will also start operating soon.

Telephone system (fixed line; as of 2000):

• domestic:
  • reconstruction plan calls for replacement of all analog circuits with digital and enlarging the network
  • a backup will be included in the plan for the main trunk
  • main operator: T-Hrvatski telekom
  • other operators: Optima Telekom, Portus Telekom (H-1)
• international:
  • country code - 385
  • digital international service is provided through the main switch in Zagreb
  • Croatia participates in the Trans-Asia-Europe (TEL) fiber-optic project, which consists of two fiber-optic trunk connections with Slovenia and a fiber-optic trunk line from Rijeka to Split and Dubrovnik
  • Croatia is also investing in ADRIA 1, a joint fiber-optic project with Germany, Albania, and Greece

Radio broadcast stations: AM 16, FM 98, shortwave 5 (1999)

Radios: 1.51 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations: 36 (plus 321 repeaters) (September 1995)

Televisions: 1.22 million (1997)

Country code: HR
Internet top-level domain: .hr

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 12 (2004)

Internet hosts: 29,644 (2004)

Internet users: 1.2 milion (2004)

See also

• Croatia