Communications in Croatia

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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)

• List of radio stations in Croatia

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)

[edit] See also

• Croatia
• List of radio stations in Croatia

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.vipnet.hr/cw/show?idc=8748781

[edit] External links

• T-Com
• T-Mobile
• VIPnet
• Tele2
• Tomato
• Telekom: Croatian telecommunication agency