The Investment Growth in fibre optic infrastructure, more Internet surfing and minutes in the mobile network

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In the first quarter, the Internet traffic recorded growth of 26.5 per cent compared to the same period last year due to the fact that we talk more on mobile phones, and total revenues on the electronic communications market grew 3.3 per cent.
 
ZAGREB, 14 June 2021 — In the first quarter of 2021, the total outgoing traffic of operators of mobile public communications network (mobile phone calls) recorded growth of 6% compared to the   first quarter of 2020. On the other hand, the total outgoing traffic of the operator of the fixed public communications network (fixed phone calls) decreased by 7 % compared to the same period last year. The total data traffic reached 627 PB and rose 26.5% compared to the previous year.

In reference to the roaming, the duration of calls by the Croatian users has continued to fall in the international networks and foreigners in the Croatian national networks, as a result of the pandemic's influence.  The Croatian users abroad talked 14.2 percent less than in the first three months of 2020 while the foreigners in Croatia talked 7.9 percent less.

The total revenue of the electronic communications market is 3.3 per cent higher compared to the first quarter of 2020. In the broadband Internet access markets, revenues grew by 9.22 %, television services 3.5 %, and line rental services 7.7 %. Revenues in telephone services via mobile and fixed networks are slightly decreasing, all due to fewer roaming conversations.

Despite the slight decline in total investments at the beginning of the year, investments in fibre-optic access infrastructure still grow significantly by 140% compared to the same period in 2020. A continued investment in broadband access infrastructure is important in order to maintain the trend of increasing the number of high-speed broadband connections.

In the fixed network, the greatest growth continues to be recorded by the number of high-speed broadband connections. In the first quarter of 2021. 17% of users gain the Internet access with speeds greater than 100 Mbit/s, and growth is generated by connectors via optical access infrastructure of about 12%. Speed over 30 Mbit/s has about 42% of users. The total number of users of packages of services is growing, mostly those with 4D packages, because they migrate from 3D packages to 4D packages in order to achieve greater discounts on all services by grouping fixed and mobile services.
 
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