According to market indicators, total data traffic increased by 39.4% YoY in Q1, to a total of almost 500 petabytes, while in March, the realized data traffic increased by 62%.
Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries (HAKOM) published an announcement regarding the Q1 data traffic in Croatia. HAKOM states that in the Q1 of 2020, the electronic communications market was affected by the changed working conditions caused by the COVID-19 epidemic. Work from home and teaching activities were mainly maintained via the Internet and, as expected, compared to the same period in 2019, the total data traffic and the number of minutes in the telephone mobile network grew.
According to market indicators, total data traffic increased by 39.4%, to a total of almost 500 petabytes, while in March, the realized data traffic increased by 62%. HAKOM adds that further growth is expected in the Q2 of this year. in Q1 2020 land line data traffic increased 21% YoY, while mobile data traffic that amounts to 28% of total traffic has increased 132% YoY.
The total number of outgoing minutes in the mobile network increased by 17% YoY. The total number of outgoing minutes in the mobile network is higher by about 11% QoQ, which differs from previous trends because in the last quarter of the year there is usually higher traffic due to the holidays. In the Q1 of 2020, there was no decline in roaming revenues due to the shorter period during which the borders were closed.
Of the broadband connections in the fixed network, the number of connections via fiber optic access technology continues to increase the most. More than 38% of users in the fixed network access the Internet at speeds greater than 30 Mbit / s, or over 11% at speeds greater than 100 Mbit / s. The number of 4D package users is still growing and in Q1 2020 growth has amounted to 22.1% YoY.
In Q1 total revenue in the electronic communications market decreased by 3.7% YoY. Despite lower total revenues, revenue growth was achieved in the broadband Internet access market by 2.9%, as well as in the pay-TV market for almost 4% YoY.
