ZAGREB, July 3 (Hina) - The number of Internet services users inCroatia is expected to rise to 1,371,000 this year, whereby the shareof Internet users in the overall population would increase from 27.4per cent at the end of 2004 to
31.2 per cent, according to the resultsof the study "Croatia Internet Access Services: 2005-2009 Forecast",which has been carried out by the regional branch of the IDC, thepremier global market intelligence and advisory firm in theinformation technology and telecommunications industries.
ZAGREB, July 3 (Hina) - The number of Internet services users in
Croatia is expected to rise to 1,371,000 this year, whereby the share of
Internet users in the overall population would increase from 27.4 per cent at
the end of 2004 to 31.2 per cent, according to the results of the study
"Croatia Internet Access Services: 2005-2009 Forecast", which has been carried
out by the regional branch of the IDC, the premier global market intelligence
and advisory firm in the information technology and telecommunications
industries. Compared to the situation at the end of last year, when
approximately 1,206,000 Croats used Internet services, this would be an annual
increase of 13.6 per cent.
Last year private citizens and business enterprises spent in excess of
US$189 million on Internet access services.
Although the dial-up technology still dominates over other types of
Internet access services, accounting for 93 per cent of all Internet
connections established in Croatia by the end of 2004, its share continues to
shrink due to the development of broadband services.
By the end of 2004 Croatia had 30,550 broadband Internet connections,
which was an increase of as much as 594 per cent from 2003.
In its second annual study of the Croatian e-commerce market, the IDC
found that last year Internet transactions in Croatia generated a turnover of
about $263 million, or 85.9 per cent more than in the previous year.
Nearly 90 per cent of the amount accounted for business-to-business
(B2B) transactions and the rest for business-to-consumer (B2C) commerce.