March 21 (SeeNews) - The number of mobile subscribers in Serbia rose by 2.95% to 8.5 million in 2021, according to data of the country's telecommunications regulator.
However, in the last quarter of the year alone, the number of mobile phone subscribers declined slightly, as at the end of September it stood at 8.67 million, figures posted on the website of the Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Postal Services (Ratel) showed earlier this month.
Serbia, with a population of around 7 million, has three operators active in the mobile segment - Telekom Srbija, A1 Srbija, known previously as Vip Mobile, and Yettel, formerly known as Telenor.
Telekom Srbija had a 43.38% share of the overall number of subscribers at the end of December, followed by Yettel with 31.53% and A1 with 24.35%.
The number of landline users declined by 1.66% to 2.37 million in 2021. At the end of Septmber it stood at 2.38 million..
Serbia's media content subscribers numbered 2.15 million at the end of December, up from 2.12 million in December 2020.
The leading platform for distribution of radio and TV programmes to end-users in Serbia was digital CATV, with a market share of 49.6%, followed by IPTV and analogue DTH with 26.3% and 15.8%, respectively. Analogue CATV had a market share of 2.9% as opposed to a 11% share recorded in December 2020.
A total of 44.8% of the fixed broadband Internet access subscribers used cable connection, followed by xDSL and FTTx connections with 29.7% and 19.6%, respectively.