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• The lower penetration of the
broadband Internet access
subscriptions compared to
the EU average,
• ADSL technology has the largest share in broadband subscription – 63%, but in the
past five years its share is in
downfall,
• Higher number of installed
and active FTTH/B connections, with their current share
in the number of active connections amounting to 9,3%,
• A larger share of broadband
connections via KDS, which
currently equals 21,2%,
• The share of the rest of the
technologies is 6,5%,
• Broadband
infrastructure
competition exists only in urban areas,
• Good coverage of the population with 3G mobile networks signal and growth of
the LTE coverage.
The main features of the current state of development of the broadband
infrastructure through the NGA technologies are the following:
• Significant investment in
FTTH network in some parts
of the urban areas;
• Until recently, the investment
in advanced KDS infrastruc-
ture (HFC, DOCSIS 3.0) has
been mainly focused on some
parts of the largest urban areas. However, in recent period
it spread to suburban areas;
• The lack of recognition of the
importance of fast development of fixed NGA networks
and broadband mobile networks by certain local governments, required for adequate planning and issuing of
necessary permits for their
construction.
• Fixed electronic communication network infrastructure
Operators have developed their
own transport networks, used with
the aim of connecting different elements within their networks. The
transport section of the operators’
network (the backbone) is based on
SDH, DWDM and MPLS technologies and transport systems, which are
realized through fiber optic cables
and radio relay links as physical mediums for signal transport. For the
realization of the transfer system,
mobile operators partly use the fiber optic cables leased from the infrastructure operators.
The access section of the fixed network in Montenegro is still predominantly based on telecommunication
cables with copper wires and coaxial cables. The largest operators have
implemented IMS (IP Multimedia