Telecommunications in Croatia
Telephones - main lines in use: 1.950 million (1.700.000 POTS,250.000 ISDN) (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 3.8 million (2006)
ADSL lines: 300,000 (2006)
Mobile operators:
- T-Mobile Croatia (prefixes +38598,+38599; GSM 900 and 1800 MHz, UMTS 2100 MHz, 2,000,000 users)
- VIPnet (prefix +38591; GSM 900 and 1800 MHz, UMTS 2100 MHz, 1,600,000 users[1])
- Tele2 (prefix +38595; GSM only, 900 and 1800 MHz, 500,000 users)
Mobile virtual network operator:
- Tomato (prefix +38592; GSM only, 900 MHz?)
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 (owned by Deutsche Telekom)
- other operators: Optima Telekom, Portus Telekom (H-1),Iskon Broadband Telekom
- 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: 3.51 million (2006)
Television broadcast stations: 36 (plus 321 repeaters) (September 1995)
Televisions: 3.22 million (2006)
Country code: HR
Internet top-level domain: .hr
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 41 (2006)
Internet hosts: 29,644 (2004)
Internet users: 1.5 million (2006)
Broadband Internet access
In Croatia ADSL was introduced in 2000. It is controlled by monopoly operator T-Com [1], which is former HT (Hrvatski telekom meaning Croatian telecom). Local loop is expected to be unbundling after 01.09.2006. so we will se 2-3 companies offering ADSL2+ Internet Access and TriplePlay.
T-Com adsl :
Prices :
- 1024/256 kbit/s from 11 euro + data package
- 3048/352 kbit/s from 28 euro + data package
- 5072/512 kbit/s from 51 euro + data package
Data Packages:
- 1024 MB 3 euro
- 5120 MB 8 euro
- Flat rate 19 euro
Iskon d.o.o. (owned by T-Com) [2]
Prices: Iskon.Duo (internet + telephone)
Limited: Up to 10 Mbit/512 kbit/s (depending on the quality of the telephone line) for 13,46 euro + data package (2 euro for 1 GB of data)
Flatrate:
- 1024/256 kbit/s for 20,40 euro
- 3048/384 kbit/s for 27,21 euro
- 5072/512 kbit/s for 40,81 euro
- 10240/512 kbit/s for 68 euro
Croatia also has Cable Internet available, however it is not as widespread as ADSL. There are four Cable internet providers:
Prices:
DCM d.o.o. [3]
Xnet Cable Internet
Unlimited package* - with fair usage policy
- Mistral Light 384/128 kbit/s - 13 Euro
- Mistral 768/256 kbit/s - 20 Euro
- Scirocco 1536/384 kbit/s - 32 Euro
- Bora 3072/512 kbit/s - 47 Euro
- Typhoon 6144/768 kbit/s - 75 Euro
Limited package
- Xnet XPRESS 2048/256 kbit/s - 14 Euro - 3 GB of data package included
- Additional 256 MB of data package 0,54 Euro
Adriatic d.o.o. [4] in cooperation with Globalnet [5]
Unlimited package - with fair usage policy
- 256/64 - 14 Euro
- 512/128 - 25 Euro
- 1024/192 - 38 Euro
Amis Telekom d.o.o. [6]
All speeds are Flat rate + telephone
- 1 Mbps/256 kbps - €20 per month
- 2 Mbps/384 kbps - €23 per month
- 4 Mbps/768 kbps - €36 per month
- 6 Mbps/768 kbps - €41 per month
- 8 Mbps/768 kbps - €54 per month
- 24 Mbps/768 kbps - €96 per month
Transintercom d.o.o. [7]
Unlimited package - with fair usage policy
- TIC 128 MAXI 128/64 kbit/s - 26 Euro
- TIC 256 MAXI 256/64 kbit/s - 42 Euro
- TIC 512 MAXI 512/128 kbit/s - 76 Euro
- TIC 768 optimal 768/128 kbit/s - 126 Euro
Limited package
- TIC 384 MINI 384/64 kbit/s 14 Euro - 512 MB of data package included
- TIC 768 MINI 768/128 kbit/s - 30 Euro - 512 MB of data package included
- Additional 512 MB of data package 2,8 Euro
Magic Telekom d.o.o. [8]
Unlimited Packages
- Flat1 256/128 kbit/s - 25 Euro
- Flat2 512/128 kbit/s - 52 Euro
Limited Packages
- Surf0 512/128 kbit/s - 11 Euro - 1 GB of data package included
- Surf1 1024/128 kbit/s - 18 Euro - 2 GB of data package included
- Surf2 2048/256 kbit/s - 35 Euro - 3 GB of data package included
- Additional 1 GB of data package 2,8 Euro until 10 GB is reached
- Additional 1 MB of data package 1,37 Euro for over 10 GB
Some providers charge Cable modem rental and it goes from 2 Euro to 4 Euro per month.
WiMax - Wireless internet access over WiMax standard
Novi net d.o.o. [9]
Unlimited packages
wDSL
- 768/384 kbit/s 26,25 Euro
- 1024/384 kbit/s 34,58 Euro
- 2048/384 kbit/s 48,47 Euro
- 3096/768 kbit/s 90,13 Euro
All packages contain
- flatrate
- web hosting 25 mb space
- 5 mailbox with 20 mb space
- 10 mail aliasa
wDSL Pro
- 512/512 kbit/s 38,75 Euro
- 1024/1024 kbit/s 67,91 Euro
- 2048/2048 kbit/s 116,52 Euro
- 2304/2304 kbit/s 124,86 Euro
All packages contain
- flatrate
- web hosting 100 mb space
- 50 mailbox 100 mb space (name@company.nnpro.net)
- 100 mail aliasa (in total)
- web domena (http://company.nnpro.net)
- you can also have your own domain (.hr/.com etc...)
TriplePlay
Vodatel d.o.o. [10] - FTTH (Fiber To The Home)
Basic package for 27 Euro contains
- 2 telephone lines
- 120 minuts of free telephone conversations
- 2/2 Mbit/s internet access - 2 GB of data package included
- 20 Digital TV channels for watching on your PC
- 5 e-mail addresses
- 100 MB e-mail space
- Additional Dial Up Access
- Antispam protection
- Antivirus & Firewall protection
There is also upgrade plan for internet
- 5/5 Mbit/s - 28 Euro + basic package - 5 GB of data package included
- 10/10 Mbit/s - 42 Euro + basic package - 10 GB of data package included
- Additional 512 MB of data package 1,38 Euro
- For unlimited data package you have to add another 14 Euro per month
Optika kabel d.o.o. [11] and PrimaTel d.o.o. [12]
Basic package for 27 Euro contains
- 2 telephone lines with free calls inside PrimaTel network
- 1024/256 kbit/s internet access - 1 GB of data package included
- 40 TV channels
Other Limited packages not in TriplePlay
- 1024/192 kbit/s - 11 Euro - 1 GB of data package included
- 2048/256 kbit/s - 25 Euro - 1 GB of data package included
- 3072/386 kbit/s - 48 Euro - 1 GB of data package included
Package rates for TriplePlay and other packages:
- 1 GB 11 Euro per month
- 2 GB 5 Euro per month
- 5 GB 13 Euro per month
- 10 GB 22 Euro per month
- FLAT 34 Euro per month