| POSTAL SERVICES, TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA
POST OFFICES
You can spot post offices in Croatia from the yellow sign with the lettering HP. The offices in tourist centres are open from Monday to Saturday from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Sundays from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Telephoning can be done at the post office (with a telephone card as well), they also offer telegram and fax service, and money changing.
Postcards and stamps are available in post offices and on most kiosks. Paper and envelopes are available in all stationer's shops and post offices. Post boxes are yellow with HPT sign and they can always be found in front of post offices and elsewhere around the centre.
TELEPHONE, MOBILE PHONE AND FAX
Telephone network is administered by the Croatian Telecommunication Company (Hrvatske Telekomunikacije). There are telephone booths everywhere; telephone sets operate by means of magnetic cards bought in the post office or a kiosk. All post offices have fax service.
Calling from Croatia, international access code is 00, after which you dial the country code.
Calling Croatia from abroad you should dial your exit code (00 or other) followed by Croatia country code: 385.
MOBILE TELEPHONY
There are two GSM operators in Croatia: VIPNET (091) and CRONET (098). Both operators offer prepaid service packages and have signed roaming agreements with many foreign GSM operators.
For further information visit: www.ht.hr, www.vip.hr
TV AND RADIO AND PRESS
Satellite TV gives you access to CNN (other reachable non-scrambled programs are mostly in German or Italian), and the state news agency, HINA, produces material in English for international distribution on a daily basis.
The state radio station, HRT, is broadcasting the news in English few times a day during the summer.
International English-language papers (Herald Tribune, the Guardian, the Independent, Europe Today, and some others) as well as English editions of some popular magazines (Times, National Geographic, Vogue, Elle and others) are available in the larger towns and resorts. i |
