Research and Markets: Croatia - Telecom Market Report, Q2 2009, Including 5-Year Forecasts

DUBLIN--(Business Wire)--
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/68d6a6/croatia_telecom) has
announced the addition of the "Croatia - Telecom Market Report, Q2 2009,
Including 5-year Forecasts" report to their offering.

This highly detailed report provides a full insight into Croatian telecom
market, covering fixed telephony, Internet and broadband access, wholesale and
mobile segments. The report is written by Croatian based experts, ensuring
highly reliable outlook on the most recent trends in the market. Containing a
large amount of market and operators' data, this report is useful source of
information for market and financial analysts, as well as vendors and investors.

During 2008 Croatian telecom market has experienced further growth of fixed
broadband lines, with net additions reaching the highest values ever and
penetration in population exceeding 12%. The number of fixed telephony lines has
remained relatively stable, as negative effects of the fixed-mobile substitution
have been offset by the increased demand for new telephony lines in the civil
engineering market. The mobile penetration has been continuously increasing,
reaching 133% by the end of 2008, with the annual customer growth during 2008
amounting to relatively high value of 845.000.

Within the EU accession process Croatia adopted the new Electronic Communication
Act that came into force in 2008. The major improvement which Act is expected to
bring to the market is the introduction of cost oriented regulation of SMP
wholesale prices that NRA should impose during 2009 and 2010. This will be
especially important to the fixed market, where major alternative operators have
made significant network investments during the last three years, with their
profit break even points still being several years away. Considering this,
additional merger and acquisition among alternative operators in fixed market
segment are highly probable during 2009.

The fixed market segment has still been highly dominated by the incumbent T Com,
whose revenue market share exceeded 80% in 2008. T Com controlled 84% of all
retail broadband lines in the market, owning 74% of net line additions during
2008. Alternative operators (primarily Optima telekom) have started to unbundle
local loops more widely, decreasing incumbent's market share. In 2008 T-Com and
national cable operator B.net started to intensively promote their IPTV and
cable TV packages, respectively, offering competitive service bundles with
lately introduced HDTV channels.

In the mobile market the market shares of the leading operators T-Mobile and
Vipnet have continued to decrease, on account of the rise of the third mobile
operator Tele2, whose customer market share reached 12% by the end of 2008.
Tele2 has not yet succeeded to achieve full national coverage, further relying
on national roaming services, that were switched over from Vipnet to T-Mobile in
June 2008. Improved competition within the mobile market segment has already
brought increased pressure on retail prices, resulting with further decline of
the overall market and operators' ARPUs. The increased traffic volumes and
customer base have compensated the negative effect of declining ARPUs on
revenues, causing the market revenue growth in 2008 to be comparable to the
previous year. Mobile broadband services, after being offered in the market for
several years, have experienced significant growth during 2008, with the
penetration of broadband users in population reaching 2,7% by the end of 2008.

Key Topics Covered:

Croatia - General Data

Demographics

Governmental and Administration Constitution

Basic Economic Indicators

A. Telecom Market Developments

* Basic Telecom Indicators
* Legislative
* Regulatory Environment
* Financial Indicators of the Market
* Incumbent Operator
* Major Acquisitions in the Market

B. Fixed Market Analysis

* Indicators
* Regulation
* Revenues
* Customer Shares
* Major Operators
* T-Com
* Optima telekom
* Metronet
* B.net Hrvatska
* H1 telekom
* Amis telekom

C. Mobile Market Analysis

* Indicators
* Regulation
* Revenues
* Customer Shares
* Operators
* T-Mobile
* Vipnet
* Tele2

D. Market Forecast

* Fixed Market
* Mobile Market
* Methodology

Companies Mentioned:

* T-HT
* T-Com Croatia
* T-Mobile Croatia
* Vipnet Croatia
* Tele2 Croatia
* Optima telekom
* B.net Croatia
* Metronet
* H1 telekom
* Amis telekom Croatia

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