Telecommunications in Serbia
Telecommunication in Serbia is an important economic sector, accounting for 4.7% of country's GDP in 2015.[1]
Telephony
- Fixed-line telephones: 81% of households (2016)[2]
- Telephone - fixed lines in use: 2.55 million, 36% penetration rate (2016)[2]
- Telephone - mobile cellular: 9.09 million, 128% penetration rate (2016)[2]
- International - country code: 381
- International - satellite earth station: 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Fixed telephony
Serbia has a developed and efficient telephone network infrastructure. Domestic line system is 100% digital, with digital cable trunk line connecting switching centers. A drop in fixed-line connections in the last decade has been more than offset by a sharp increase in mobile-cellular telephone use. Telekom Srbija, the former state monopoly, is the predominant player in landline telephony with 93.8% of market share.[3] Since the liberalization of the telecommunications market in 2013, Telekom Srbija has been very slowly losing market share to 16 other telecom operators, of which the most significant ones include SBB and Orion Telekom.
Mobile telephony
Serbia currently has three mobile networks,
licence in 2013 but is still not offering services.Radio and television
- Radios (2016): 75.7% of households[2]
- Radio broadcast stations: 247 (including six national stations, 34 regional stations, and 207 local stations)[4]
- Televisions (2016): 97.8% of households[2]
- Television broadcast stations: 122 (including seven national stations, 26 regional stations, and 89 local stations)[4]
Free-to-air terrestrial television
Digital television transition has been completed in 2015 with MPEG-4 compression standard and DVB-T2 standard for signal transmission.[5]
Pay television
Some 67% of households are provided with pay television services (i.e. 38.7% cable television, 16.9% IPTV, and 10.4% satellite).[2] There are 90 pay television operators (cable, IPTV, DTH), largest of which are SBB (mainly cable) with 48% market share, Telekom Srbija (mts TV) with 25%, followed by PoštaNet with 5%, and Ikom and Kopernikus with 4% and 3%, respectively.[2]
IT Industry
The Serbian
Large investments by global tech companies like
Internet
- Top-level domains: .rs and .срб (Cyrillic)[18]
- Internet users: 5.1 million, 72.4% of the population (2016)[19]
- Fixed internet access: 1.45 million households, 58% of households (2016)[2]
- Internet hosts: 1.1 million (2012)[20]
- Internet Service Providers(ISPs): 214 (2016)
- Fixed internet service providers (2016):[2]
- Telekom Srbija (xDSL): 45.9% market share
- SBB (cable): 25.7%
- Ikom (cable): 3.8%
- Orion Telekom (xDSL): 3.4%
- Kopernikus (cable): 2.7%
- Radijus Vektor (cable): 2.1%
- Sat-Trakt (cable): 2%
- PoštaNet (xDSL, cable): 1.9%
- EUnet (xDSL): 1.6%
- BeotelNet (xDSL): 1.5%
- Other: 9.3%
- Fixed internet service providers (2016):[2]
See also
References
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External links
- Serbian Telecommunication Agency (en)
- Telecommunications Market of Serbia for 2016 at ratel.rs (in Serbian)
- EJC Media Landscapes, Serbia, #Telecommunications