Original telecommunications market research and telecommunications sector trend analysis for the national telecommunications industry.

Competitive intelligence, regional telecommunications company rankings and SWOT analyses on international and domestic telecommunications companies.

The Report provides industry professionals and researchers, operators, equipment suppliers and vendors, corporate and financial services analysts and regulatory bodies with independent forecasts and competitive intelligence on the national telecommunications industry.

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Key Benefits of Report

-Benchmark BMI's Independent 5-Year Telecommunications Industry Forecast to test other views - a key input for successful budgeting and strategic business planning in the national telecommunications market.
-Target Business Opportunities & Risks in the Telecommunications Sector through our reviews of latest industry trends, regulatory changes, and major deals, projects and investments.
-Exploit Latest Competitive Telecommunications Intelligence & company SWOTS on your competitors and peers through company rankings by sales, market share, investments and leading products and services.

Executive Summary
Summary of BMI's key industry forecasts and trend analysis, covering ICT, fixed-line, mobile and internet markets, and headline news of key industry events from the latest quarter.

Market Overview
At-a-glance outlook of the structure, size and value of the industry, including an overview of key players and a snapshot of regional penetration rates for fixed-line, mobile and internet markets.

Business Environment Rankings
BMI provides a cross-border analysis of telecoms regulatory systems across regional markets, and their investor prospects, discussing the merits and downfalls of each country's business environment, and ranking them in order of competitiveness. The rankings take into account industry factors, such as Market Maturity, Growth Potential, Competitive Environment and Licensing Framework in addition to BMI's political and economic risk ratings.

BMI 5-Year Industry Forecast
Historic data series and 5-year forecasts to end-2012 for all key industry indicators (see list below), supported by explicit assumptions, plus analysis of key downside risks to the main forecast.

Fixed-Line Telephony - Telephone Lines ('000); Telephone Lines/100 Inhabitants;
Cellular Telephony - Phone Subscribers ('000); Mobile Phone Subscribers/ 100 Inhabitants; Mobile Phone Subscribers/100 Fixed Line Subscribers;
Internet Markets - Internet Users ('000); Internet Users/100 Inhabitants; Broadband Internet Subscribers ('000); Broadband Internet Subscribers/100 Inhabitants;
Multimedia Markets - PCs ('000); PCs/100 Inhabitants; TV households ('000s); Pay-TV subscribers ('000s); Pay-TV subscribers/100 inhabitants; Cable TV subscribers ('000s); Direct-to-Home Subscribers ('000s)
BMI 5-Year Macroeconomic Forecast
BMI forecasts for all headline macroeconomic indicators, including real GDP growth, inflation, fiscal balance, trade balance, current account and external debt.

Competitive Landscape & Rankings
Commentary on key operators highlighting ownership structures, latest available revenue figures, market share analysis and ARPU counts.

Company Profiles & SWOTS
Company profiles, including SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analyses, fully researched senior executives and contact details, business activity, leading products and services, and a record of all recent foreign direct investments and projects.

The Sector At A Glance

Key Insights On The Telecomunications Sector of Croatia

In the second quarter of 2007, the number of Croatian mobile subscribers grew by 3.4%, which meant that Q207 was a stronger growth quarter than Q107, when the sector grew by just 2.4%. Nevertheless, with the Croatian sector having achieved 5.8% mobile subscriber growth in the first half of 2007, BMI decided to upgrade its growth predictions for 2007 as a whole. Although we previously suggested that the sector would expand by 9.5% in 2007, we now estimate that mobile subscribers will increase by as much as 12.5% in 2007, to reach 4.911mn by the end of the year.

Croatia's mobile sector continues to be led by T-Mobile, which had a 48.1% share of the market at the end of June 2007. Despite the dominance of T-Mobile and its closest rival, Vipnet of the Telekom Austria group, both operators appeared to lose market share to third ranked Tele2 Croatia in Q207. Following numerous reports about Tele2 Croatia's financial difficulties in the early part of 2007, the country's third largest mobile operator appears to have had a comeback, securing 50% of new subscribers in the second quarter of 2007 and increasing its subscriber base to 400,000 by September 2007. By the end of June 2007, Tele2 had boosted its share of the market vis-à-vis T-Mobile and Vipnet. Meanwhile, it was reported in October 2007 that Tele2's Swedish parent company had increased its stake in its Croatian mobile business from 51% to 93% via a HRK120mn (US$23mn) recapitalisation. As a result of Tele2's capital investment, the stake in Tele2 Croatia which previously belonged to Croatian private equity fund Quaestus, has been reduced from 49% to 7%.

In August 2007, Croatia's mobile sector also saw the arrival of its first mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). The new entrant was formed out of a partnership between telecoms firm TelCro and the Croatian bank Zagrebacka Banka. The MVNO service is offered in partnership with T-Mobile Croatia.

One of the most significant announcement in recent weeks, was the news that the Croatian government planned to divest 32.5% of national incumbent T-Hrvatski Telekom (T-HT) for HRK265 (US$51.8) per share. The sale would leave the government with a 9.5% stake in T-HT, down from its current 42% holding. The 32.5% stake will be split between domestic private investors, who will take 25% of T-HT, and institutional investors, which will acquire 7.5% of the company. Germany's Deutsche Telekom will continue to hold a majority stake of 51% in T-HT. T-HT continues to retain a near monopoly over the provision of fixed-line services in Croatia, despite ongoing attempts by the sector's regulatory authorities to improve the lot of alternative operators. Nevertheless, a number of companies have been making steady inroads into Croatia's broadband sector, including Metronet which, in September 2007, signed an agreement to purchase rival broadband operator, Vodatel. Vodatel currently provides satellite-based TV, broadband and voice telephony services to residential and business customers; its acquisition by Metronet has therefore significantly boosted Metronet's position in Croatia's residential segment, which Metronet itself entered in May 2007.