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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | July 1, 1999; 25 years ago (1999-07-01) |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Jiří Dvorjančanský (CEO,CMO) Adrian Ježina (CTO) Bernd Schmutterer (CFO)[1] |
| Products | |
| Revenue |  €445.8 million(2021; 4 years ago (2021))[2] |
| €58.1 million(2021; 4 years ago (2021))[2] | |
| €41 million(2021; 4 years ago (2021))[2] | |
Number of employees | 1,837(2021; 4 years ago (2021))[2] |
| Parent | A1 Telekom Austria Group |
| Website | a1 |
A1 Hrvatska d.o.o. is a Croatiantelecommunications company owned byA1 Telekom Austria Group[3] launched in July 1999.
Granted the concession for the secondGSM network inCroatia in September 1998, Vipnet started its commercial operations on January 1, 1999. In 1999, Vipnet was the first on the Croatian market to offer its customers Vipme prepaid,[3] with no subscription fee and a year later Vipnet introduced the first mobile payment service in Croatia – Vip parking, which was later used and introduced by other operators. As a part ofTelekom Austria Group and because of TAG's partnership agreement withVodafone, Vipnet was the first inCroatia to present a new business communications solution – Vodafone Blackberry, in 2004.
Later on, in 2006, Vipnet offered an alternative to fixed telephony line with the Vodafone Homebox to its private customers, small and medium enterprises and in February 2008 introduced the first prepaid fixed line in Croatia – Vipme Homebox.
In March 2007 it was the first in Europe to demonstratemobile Internet access via itsHSDPA 7.2 network and in February 2009 was among the first in the world to successfully test the latest technology formobile broadband –HSPA+.
At the end of 2008, Vipnet had 2.5 million customers, up 14.1% compared to end of 2007.[4] Its market share is 42.2%, down from 43% share at the end of 2007.[4] As of May 2012[update], it had 1.964 million customers.[5]
In 2010, Vipnet introducedADSL and in the same year presented Dual Carrier HSDPA technology. Also in the same year developed a range of services based oncloud computing such as Vip auto nadzor (Vip car surveillance), Vip nadzor radnog vremena (Vip business hours surveillance), Vip nadzor prodaje (Vip sales surveillance) and Vip nadzor brodova (Vip ship surveillance). With these services customers achieve significant savings, because they do not have to invest in expensive technology or have their ownIT infrastructure. In March 2011, Vipnet was the first in Croatia to testLTE at 800 MHz for covering Croatia with the most advancedwireless broadband.
In August 2011, the company acquired B.net, the largest Croatian cable operator that offered fixed telephony,broadband Internet access and television services such ascable television andsatellite television. This acquisition for €93 million was the biggest takeover within the Croatian telecom market.[6]
At the beginning of 2012, Vipnet was the first on the market to offer combi packages for fixed and mobile services. In March 2012, Vipnet andEricsson Nikola Tesla launched the first commercialLTE network in Croatia. Following the April 2012 and the introduction of a high qualitydigital television VipTV, in October 2012 Vipnet became the first and only operator that has made available, in all areas of Croatia, the complete 5-play service, which includes Vip TV, mobile and fixed telephony, as well as mobile and fixed Internet – and all on one bill. Also, in May 2012 Vipnet was first to set a world record indata transmission on the fixed network with speeds of up to 4.3 Gbit/s which is 1000 times greater than the average in Croatian households.
Vipnet finished the year 2012 presenting its new technological and business complex in Žitnjak. The complex was worth 50 million HRK, it is energy self-sufficient, and also contains one of the largestdata center in the region.[citation needed]
In 2013, the company acquiredDigi TV Croatia (Digi satelitska televizija d.o.o.), one of the providers of satellite television on the Croatian market, which began operating in November 2006. All customers were transferred to the satellite television company's service VIP TV.[7][8]
After the Agency for the Protection of Market Competition approved the acquisition of Vipnet and Metronet telecommunications in 2017, the takeover process was completed. Metronet was a provider of telecommunications services to business users with more than 4,300 users and possessed a 4,000-kilometer optical infrastructure. The value of the acquisition has not been announced.[9]
