During 5 previous years, the telecommunications market in Serbia marked growth in income, despite a simultaneous decrease trend in the majority of European countries. The total income realized on the telecommunications market of Serbia in 2016 was around 189.4 billion dinars, representing a 1 percent growth compared to the previous year. In 2016, telecommunications income participated in the Serbian GDP with 4.51 percent. Like in previous years, the largest market income came from the provision of mobile service telephony, with the share of 59 percent in the total telecommunications income.

Total investments in the electronic communications sector in 2016 amounted to 32.3 billion dinars, which is by 4.9 percent less than the previous year. The majority of investments were made in mobile telephony (11.1 billion dinars) and networks for media content distribution (8.7 billion dinars), summing up to 61.3 percent of the total investments in 2016.

Mobile network users continue to outnumber the total number of inhabitants, so that there are 128 mobile telephony users per each 100 inhabitants. Every year, there is a drop in the number of fixed telephony subscribers, their number still being superior to the number of households, i.e. 102 subscribers per 100 households.

The number of subscribers of fixed broadband Internet access marked growth by approximately 10percent compared to the previous year, while the number of subscribers of media content distribution increased by 4 percent. As a result, at the end of 2016, there were 58 Internet subscribers and 67 subscribers of media content distribution per 100 households.

During 2016, postal market generated a total income of 16.8 billion dinars, which is an increase by 4.7 percent compared to the previous year. This growth increase was mainly influenced by the income from delivery of express items and parcels over 10 kg. The income growth rate of these services reached almost 11 percent.

In the total market income, the public postal operator participated with more than 60 percent. The growth trend in the private operators’ total income share continued, resulting in a 40 percent share in 2016, compared to the 30percent share in 2011.