Montenegro: la copertura

Cosa vogliono dire i numeri di Montenegro

Contano due numeri e solo uno è quello che citano tutti. La velocità tipica, 52 Mbps, dice com'è un buon momento.

Il decimo percentile, 13 Mbps, è quello che vale la pena leggere. È la velocità nel decimo peggiore della giornata, quando la cella sopra la stazione è piena e tutti intorno a te ci sono dentro. Un paese con mediana alta e pavimento basso funziona benissimo, fino al momento in cui ti serve davvero.

Se il viaggio dipende da videochiamate o hotspot, pianifica sul dato delle ore di punta e non su quello tipico.

Cosa succede in Montenegro quando la rete è congestionata

La congestione non è un guasto, è un martedì sera. La domanda è cosa può farci la tua eSIM, e per quasi tutte le eSIM da viaggio la risposta è niente: un accordo all'ingrosso per paese, una rete, e nessuna via d'uscita se non comprare una seconda eSIM da qualcun altro mentre sei in mezzo alla strada.

Qui il traffico Orbislo passa da Telekom e One. Quando la rete su cui sei peggiora ti spostiamo su un'altra, a metà viaggio, senza che tu lo chieda, e te lo diciamo dopo invece di interromperti sul momento.

Montenegro: operatori mobili

• Mtel: Mtel was Montenegro's largest mobile operator at the end of June 2026, with 621,783 users and 41.71 percent of the market, according to the regulator EKIP.
• Crnogorski Telekom: Crnogorski Telekom had 537,892 users at the end of June 2026, 36.08 percent of the market, according to EKIP's monthly report.
• One Crna Gora: One Crna Gora had 331,098 users at the end of June 2026, 22.21 percent of the market, according to EKIP's monthly report.
• Market size: Montenegro counted 1,490,773 mobile users at the end of June 2026, a penetration of 239 percent. Postpaid lines made up 60.07 percent and prepaid 39.93 percent.
• Summer peak: Tourism swells the market each summer. At the end of August 2025 EKIP counted 1,599,734 mobile users, a penetration of 256.52 percent, and prepaid lines had risen to 46.81 percent of the total.

Montenegro: reti più vecchie

• Crnogorski Telekom officially shut down its 3G network on 22 January 2024 to put its spectrum and resources into 4G and 5G. It was also the first operator in Montenegro to offer VoLTE calling.

Montenegro: il 5G

• Crnogorski Telekom launched 5G commercially in March 2022 using dynamic spectrum sharing on its 2 GHz band, and One Crna Gora followed in July 2022 using its 1800 MHz, 2 GHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum.
• EKIP auctioned the 700 MHz, 3.6 GHz and 26 GHz bands from 20 to 27 December 2022. All paired 700 MHz and all 3.6 GHz blocks were sold with 15 year licences issued on 9 February 2023, while the 26 GHz band went unsold.
• Crnogorski Telekom and One switched on their first 3.6 GHz 5G base stations in Podgorica in March 2023, and Mtel followed in May. By the end of 2023, 3.6 GHz 5G reached urban Bar, Budva, Herceg Novi, Kotor, Niksic, Podgorica and Tivat.
• Crnogorski Telekom reported 5G coverage of 88.75 percent of the population from 230 sites in October 2024, citing EKIP's report, with 4G reaching 97.32 percent.

Montenegro: note sulla rete

• Existing operators holding 700 MHz spectrum must cover 97 percent of the population by the end of 2024 and 98 percent by the end of 2026 with at least 10 Mbps down and 3 Mbps up outdoors.
• The same licences require continuous coverage of every motorway and main road by the end of 2026, at least half of each regional road by then, and every regional road by the end of 2030.
• Because of heavy tourist traffic, data quality measured in July and August does not count toward checking whether operators meet their licence conditions, because tourists load the networks so heavily in those two months.
• In mid 2022, GSM reached 98 to 99 percent of the population and 3G and 4G 97 to 98 percent. GSM covered about 84 percent of the territory and 3G and 4G just over 80 percent, including main roads, tunnels and tourist centres.
• Each 700 MHz licensee must also bring coverage to at least five rural areas with no mobile signal by the end of 2026, chosen from a regulator list of rural settlements of at least 50 residents without usable mobile broadband.