HT Wins Ookla and Umlaut Awards for the Best Mobile Network in Croatia

For the third consecutive year, Hrvatski Telekom was named as the best mobile network in Croatia. The operator has received Ookla Speedtest Awards for the ‘Best Mobile Network’, ‘Fastest Mobile Network’ and for the ‘Best Mobile Coverage’ in Croatia*, and it has as well received umlaut’s ‘Best in Test’ award for the best mobile network for the fourth time.

Consumer initiated tests on the Ookla Speedtest platform is free and users test the network in a real environment and on their own devices, which gives the best insight into real user experience. The Ookla analysis of the results of 318,477 user initiated tests conducted on Speedtest iOS and Android mobile applications, as well as results from over 106 million scans taken at 183,337 locations, during the first half of 2021 on all major mobile operators in Croatia, confirmed that HT has both the best mobile network in Croatia, as well as the fastest and the one with the best coverage. The analysis showed that HT achieved an overall Speed ​​Score score of 83.42 compared to 70.71 in 2020.

umlaut’s in-depth crowd-based analysis was based on 44.4 million samples collected by 16,800 users across Croatia over a period of six months, from January to June 2021. Compared to previous year HT improved in an overall score by as much as 35 points, and along with winning the ‘Best in test’ award for the fourth time, the company also achieved the best rated broadband coverage and the highest download speeds score, strengthening further its market leadership position.

“We are in the ‘connectivity’ business that is technology based, digitalization driven and built on network development, but aside from these tech characteristics we go beyond just providing products and services convinced that success is defined by service quality we provide our customers with. This is why we are proud that our efforts and substantial investments in the network development and quality have been recognized and reflected in better and faster internet and mobile apps access of our customers, which has again been confirmed by results of not one, but both independent extensive analyses. Being the best once is a big achievement but repeating in then for the second and third time in a row is remarkable, and we will definitely continue building on it further“, stated Boris Drilo, Member of the Management Board and CTIO at Hrvatski Telekom.