Putting into operation the LTE-based 4G network sets a foundation for the fastest mobile Internet in Croatia
23.3.2012
Hrvatski Telekom, the leading provider of telecommunications services in Croatia, launched today the first commercial LTE-based 4G network in Croatia. The network will enable the customers the data transfer rates up to ten times higher than the current ones. The 4G base stations are located in Zagreb, Rijeka, Osijek and Split. The plan is to expand the LTE network coverage to other urban areas in Croatia in the upcoming period as well. The LTE-based services as well as the coverage maps will be presented and available to the customers in a couple of days.
The LTE technology represents the fourth generation of mobile networks (4G) and offers an unparalleled experience of using the services requiring high wireless data rates as well as a faster access to the applications such as video content (Youtube, mobile TV, etc.), cloud services, network games and a variety of applications based on the new Web 2.0 standards. LTE offers impressive data rates (173 Mbps downlink and 58 Mbps uplink peak data rates, which is ten times faster than HSPA) and enables use of all currently available data applications on the screens of mobile phones. The new technology will offer the users the exchange of the most demanding multimedia content.
“We in HT are intensely investing into new technologies in order to offer to our customers in Croatia cutting-edge telecommunications services at the same time as they appear on the most developed global markets; and we are among the first in Europe and in the region. LTE, as one of the innovative technologies of today is a part of our strategy and it will soon become a standard in mobile communications, especially if we consider the fact that the volume of data traffic in mobile networks will rise more by more than 60 percent in the next couple of years. By implementing the mobile network LTE in combination with the improvements in the fixed line data rates, we have confirmed one more time our leading position on the market,” said Božidar Poldrugač, HT Management Board Member and Chief Technical and Chief Information Officer.
In 2010, HT was the first company in Croatia to have a live presentation of the implemented 4G test network, and in 2011, our customers in Zagreb, Rijeka and Split were the first in Croatia to test all the advantages this up-to-date technology offers to the users. Furthermore, in March 2011, HT presented in Rijeka the highest download data rates in the mobile network in Croatia. On that occasion, we arranged a video conference call between Zagreb and Rijeka using the LTE technology.