Telecommunications as a segment of the information system in the Republic of Croatia financial and legal aspects

The Republic of Croatia belongs to the circle of transitional countries that has undertaken major efforts at the build-out of the information system. The development of telecommunications has been given a great importance because they represent one of the essential basis for the economical development and the general development of the Croatian society all together. In the last few years there was monopoly in the Croatian market of telecommunications. However, the competition to T-Mobile has been introduced and due to this fact the quality of telecommunication services has been increased, the prices have been lowered and at the same time the fiscal revenue to the state bugdet has been growing because the number of users has been significantly bigger, especially in teh area of the mobile telecommunications and Internet services.