Internet Traffic up 45% in Croatia
- by croatiaweek
- in Business
Croatians are spending more and more time on the internet. Total internet data traffic in the first quarter of 2014 amounted to 110 million GB, an increase of 45.6% compared to the same period last year, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics…
It is not just the internet they are spending more time on either, with traffic on phone calls also up. In the first quarter of 2014 mobile subscribers generated 2.36 million outgoing minutes, an increase of 8.6% from the first quarter of 2013, whilst fixed line outgoing minutes had dropped 14.4%. With free messaging services such as Viber and WhatsApp starting to take off, the number of text messages sent has dropped by 2.5% to 818 million, while MMS’s had decreased by 11.3% compared to the same period last year.
The number of letters sent in the first quarter of 2014 reached 84,906, which when compared to the same period in 2013, was 1.4% more.