STRATEGY FOR THE INFORMATION SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT 2020.
Subsystem) platform and have carried out the full migration of their
users to this platform.
Fixed connections based on telecommunication cables with copper
wires are available in all of the Montenegrin municipalities, in all urban,
suburban and in some rural areas.
70% of households in Montenegro
have this kind of connection. 93.000
ADSL connections are active. 64.400
ADSL connections are used for Internet access.
Cable distribution system – the KDS,
through the implementation of DOCSIS 3.O standard, along with the distribution of the AVM content, also
enables both the Internet access
services and telephony. In the past
period, the standard KDS with the
coaxial cables has been replaced
with HFC networks. The KDS connections are available in 13 municipalities, in urban areas where 59%
of the population resides. 31.400
connections via KDS networks are
active. 19.800 connections via KDS
networks are in actual use for Internet access.
The development of access networks based on fiber optic cables
(FTTH/B) has intensified in the
past years. Fiber optic connections
are available to the end-users in 10
municipalities, in urban areas where 54% of the total Montenegrin population resides. 51.000 FTTH con-
nections have been installed, which
means that 26% of households in
Montenegro have the possibility for
access via FTTH connection. 13.700
FTTH connections are active. 10.600
FTTH connections are in actual use
for Internet access.
The total number of active fixed broadband connections, independent
of the type of the service provided,
is 147.800. The penetration of fixed
broadband connections compared
to the number of households is 77%.
102.400 broadband connections are
used for Internet access. The penetration of broadband Internet access
(ADSL, FTTH/B, KDS-HFC, WiMAX et
al) is 16.5% in relation to the population number, and 53.3% in relation
to the number of households. Along
with the increased number of users
of the fixed broadband Internet
access, there have also been changes
in the structure of the users, related
to the access technologies. The greatest change happened with the share
of KDS, ADSL and FTTH connections.
In the past five years, the KDS share
grew from 4% to 19.3%, the ADSL
share fell from 78% to 62.9%, while the FTTH share grew from 1% to
10.3%.
With the development of the fiber
optic networks, the preconditions
for the access with greater capacities have been created. Therefore,
in the operators’ offer now we have
fiber optic connection packages with