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Croatia ready for 3rd party mobile services

The point of saturation.

Puls, a croatian market research agency, presented findings 2 months ago about croatian mobile habits and use.
I almost forgot about these findings.

They conducted interviews with croatian households ( n= 1.000 people, time frame- January 2007., people over 14 years old, national representative sample ).



Key findings:

- Penetration : 101 % ,

- Usage: 37 % photography, 25 % games, 21 % mp3, 16 % video clips, 13 % radio, 12 % content dowloading, 7 % web browsing, 7 % mobile e-mail

- Males and under 25 years old are using more actively multimedia, music, games and web browsing

For example, T-Mobile Croatia has ARPU of € 27 ( In Germany it has about 21 € ).
Tele2 has the biggest subsciber growth. Vipnet provides videocalling, HSDPA network with 7,2 downlink ( HSPU upgrade ) and is actively making inroads in fixed-mobile convergence with its VIP Homebox service.

State of the calling

Give me more, more and more.

Fresh data about telecom trends in Croatia become available in the media .
According to the Central Bureau of Statistics ( key facts for 2006., reference year 2005. ):

- 46,3 % more minutes in the mobile networks,
- 13,7 % less minutes in the fixed network ( 8,3 billion minutes ),
- 10,2 % less international calls for the fixed network ( 194 million minutes ),
- 47,3 % more domestic calls for the mobile networks ( 3,5 billion minutes ) ,
- 20,8 % more international calls for the mobile networks ( 128 million minutes )
- 5,1 % more SMS's send ( 2,5 billion )
- 43,2 % more MMS's send ( 14,5 million, but volume is only 0,6 % compared to SMS )

Domestic mobile calling and MMS is up, although, MMS's volume is minor.
About croatian telecom market, read more here.