Croatia's telecommunications market is being progressively liberalised in line with the country's commitments to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreement signed in 2000 requiring member states to open their telecommunications sectors to competition. Croatia also harbours ambitions of joining the European Union (EU) by 2010; to be successful, the country's telecommunications market will need to be completely liberalised and all legislation should mirror that adopted in existing EU member states. Croatia's fixed network services market was opened to competition at the end of 2002, although incumbent fixed-line operator T-Hrvatske Telekom was not legally required to surrender access to its local loop network until January 1, 2005. In the meantime, a large number of value-added network service providers and a handful of (mostly) localised Internet service providers (ISPs) began offering commercial services in competition with T-Hrvatske Telekom.
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