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The development of 5G networks will attract enormous investments in both Croatia and worldwide, increase the total global GDP, as well as change everyday life and improve the economy, said Croatian telcos leaders at the “5G&beyond” conference, organized by 5G.hr and Markoja.

The 5G network is “4G on steroids”, joked Gordan Šišul, Ph. D., full professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing at the University of Zagreb, speaking on the potentials of the 5G network at the “5G&beyond” conference organized by 5G.hr and the company Markoja.

HAKOM, the Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries, will organize a new auction on the allocation of spectrum frequencies for the development of 5G infrastructure at the end of this year, and at the beginning of 2023 at the latest.

HAKOM notes that total investment in the Croatian electronic communications market in 2021 reached HRK 3.01 billion, which is an increase of 20.5 percent compared to the previous year.

In the highly dynamic market of mobile devices, the best-selling smartphones in Croatia in the year behind us were those from the house of Samsung. The South Korean brand is a convincing leader in the domestic market, followed by Xiaomi, which achieved great results in 2021, but failed to overtake Samsung.

The global of chip shortage could be alleviated by a new technique for the production of semiconductor wafers, based on chemical-free nanotechnology and developed by scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.

Croatia’s first venture capital for impact investing, Feelsgood, has invested more than 2.25 million kuna or 300,000 euros in the Zagreb startup BiteMe Nutrition.

Following 18 months of deliberations in the European Parliament, the final text of the resolution on artificial intelligence has finally been agreed upon. The new regulation is expected after the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg in April, where the document will be discussed and voted on.

In 2021, the Samsung Galaxy A12 rose to the top of the best-selling phone list. Omdia reports that Samsung shipped as many as 51.8 million Galaxy A12 phones last year, surpassing Apple’s mobile phone shipments, which had almost always come first.

Tomislav Car, former CEO of Infinum: “I founded Infinum with Matej and ran it as CEO for the last 16 years. The job of a CEO is a lot of things, but the bottom line is pretty simple – to lead the company to victory. Victory can mean whatever you want it to mean. Getting the desired client, growing to a certain level, selling to a larger corporation and the like.”