ZAGREB, July 10 (Hina) - As of 1 August, users of fixed telephony will be able to choose between two new user packages which will make telephone services cheaper and partially free of charge, the Croatian government decided at a
session on Thursday.
ZAGREB, July 10 (Hina) - As of 1 August, users of fixed telephony
will be able to choose between two new user packages which will make
telephone services cheaper and partially free of charge, the
Croatian government decided at a session on Thursday. #L#
Croatian Telecom (HT) CEO Ivica Mudrinic said HT would introduce
the Hello Plus user package, with a subscription fee of 75 kuna and
cheaper telephone pulses and toll-free phone service on Sundays,
and the Mini Hello package with a subscription fee of 45 kuna and 120
minutes of free phone service per month. This will enable users to
choose the model which suits their phone habits best, Mudrinic said
at the government's first virtual session at Zagreb's Sheraton
hotel.
In a discussion about bids to make the Internet more available, the
government supported systematic Internet coverage of its work and
the work of other bodies of state administration, so the public
could be informed about it as much as possible.
The government will also encourage Internet education and
promotion projects and hold a separate discussion about increasing
the use of the Internet in schools.
The Minister of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Communications,
Roland Zuvanic, said Croatia was 32nd in the world according to the
number of Internet users. In 1990, only six percent of the
population used the Internet, 18% percent did so in 2002, while by
the end of this year their number will rise to 1,014,000 or 28% of
the population, he said.
Education Minister Vladimir Strugar said that the student-computer
ratio both in primary and secondary schools was 30:1 and that there
was a total of 28,000 computers in schools. He said that as of next
year all schools would have ten hours of toll-free Internet access
per day and that 4,500 computers would be purchased for schools this
year.
Prime Minister Ivica Racan said Croatia was among the leading
European transition countries according to the number of Internet
users, but that the government could not be fully satisfied until it
raised the level of Internet access to that in EU countries.
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