There is no reason for Bosnia not to have a 4G network other than nonchalance, telecommunications expert and renown manager, Boris Nemsic, told N1.

Nemsic, who is hailed by many as the “king of telecommunications”, is the head of management of Delta Partners, the leading global TMT consulting and investment company, and a member of the Supervisory Board of United Group, an alternative telecommunications provider in Balkan countries.

He was in the past named best manager in Austria, and ran large companies such as VIPnet, Telekom Austria, VimpelCom, I-New Unified Mobile Solutions, Cellwize and Frequentis.

“It hurts me personally when I see that we, as a country, do not have fourth generation LTE, as there is no reason for us not to have it. It angers me that we are, out of some nonchalance, lagging behind in this regard,” he N1 reporter Ika Ferrer Gotic in an interview.

Bosnia’s telecommunications operators are public companies, and such companies often do not have the drive to be the first and most successful, he said.

“The basis is competition,” he said.

It is impossible for a country to not be part of global development, Nemsic said, “it is only possible to administratively stall, be lazy.”

“However, the world is moving on, it will not wait for anybody, and it won’t for us. We are part of it, and we are falling behind in some details,” he said.

Nemsic said the Bosnian society has a bad impression of privatization.

“We have a negative attitude toward private capital. When one says ‘privatization’, everybody immediately thinks of crime. In my business, capital is the basis of development,” he said.

“We should open ourselves up to that capital, which is private. We should turn toward this and, above all, not view it negatively,” he said.