Telecommunications in Croatia
Telephones - main lines in use: 1.750 million (1.600.000 POTS,150.000 ISDN) (2005)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 2.5 million (2005)
ADSL lines: 100.000 (2005)
Mobile operators:
- T-Mobile Croatia (prefixes +38598,+38599;900 and 1800MHz, UMTS 2100MHz)
- VIPnet (prefix +38591; GSM 900 and 1800MHz, UMTS 2100MHz)
- Tele2 (prefix +38595;900 and 1800MHz)
- A fourth mobile license is being offered in 2006
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 million (2004)