Digitalk 101's annual "Largest IT Companies" edition ranks NetIX Communications, a Neterra subsidiary, third in the sector's Top 50 Most Efficient Companies. At EUR 1.09 million in revenue per employee, the platform outperforms every telecom operator in the ranking and trails only Polycomp and Also Bulgaria.
Neterra, for its part, climbs to third place among suppliers of communications equipment. Its revenue in that segment grew 604.84% over the year - the biggest move anywhere in the table.
Two Articles About the Internet That Never Stops
The edition also features two Neterra articles on business connectivity.
"The Arithmetic of Uptime" picks apart a number every business signs off on without reading it: the provider's commitment to service availability.
Availability of 99.9% sounds reassuring, but it permits almost nine hours without internet a year, a full working day. At 99.99%, the outage falls below an hour. At 99.999%, below six minutes for the entire year.
Each additional nine cuts downtime by roughly 90%. The article draws on data from ITIC, Splunk/Oxford Economics and the Uptime Institute. More than 90% of large companies lose over USD 100,000 for every hour offline, and in payments and healthcare, the figure passes USD 5 million an hour. Around 70% of outages trace back to human error and network faults, which makes them preventable with better architecture.
"Business Without Geographic Limits" takes a different angle. For decades, the map of fibre routes decided where a company could open a warehouse or break ground on a site. Neterra's hybrid internet removes that constraint. It brings fibre, 5G, Starlink satellite internet and other technologies together into a single service, a single device and a single contract. Connectivity arrives within seven working days, or within 24 hours in urgent cases. A construction company can start building on an empty field the day it arrives. A mining site or a solar park with no physical address still receives IP addresses.
Neterra and NetIX in the Rankings
NetIX and Neterra consistently hold strong positions in the Bulgarian IT rankings:
- NetIX ranks 3rd in the Top 50 Most Efficient Companies
- Neterra ranks 3rd in the Top 5 Suppliers of Communications Equipment
- NetIX ranks 16th among the Top 100 companies with the highest projected growth for 2026 (22.05%)
- Neterra ranks 6th and NetIX 9th in the Top 10 Telecom Service Providers
- NetIX ranks 31st in the Top 50 Fastest-Growing Companies (20.35%) and 41st in the Top 50 Most Dynamic Companies, while Neterra ranks 45th in the Top 50 ICT Exporters
The Year Behind the Numbers
In a commentary for the edition, Neterra founder and managing director Neven Dilkov sets out the company's three most significant projects of 2025.
Neterra became the official distributor of Starlink from SpaceX, doubled its satellite internet revenue and launched two new services for business customers: hybrid internet, which combines Starlink, fibre and 5G, and backup internet, which switches over the moment the primary link fails.
The company invested EUR 12 million in modernising its national fibre backbone with DWDM technology from Infinera, lifting capacity on key routes to 800 Gbps per channel.
Revenue from business internet grew 32%, while NetIX had its best year yet, with subscription revenue up 43%.
The Editors Quote Neven Dilkov in Four Further Analyses
In the 2026 IT market review, he addresses the fragility of international infrastructure: "That is why we invested in a fourth independent route to Frankfurt - security and full redundancy at both physical and software level are now a basic requirement from our largest clients." In the survey of AI strategies across the sector, Dilkov describes how Neterra automated the processing of unstructured data. And in the analysis of the labour market he sums up: "Bulgaria stopped being a cheap country a long time ago, especially when it comes to expert and professional talent."
The feature on data centres describes Neterra as one of the first Bulgarian operators to specialise in colocation and line leasing in Central and Eastern Europe. The company owns and operates four data centres with a combined capacity of 5.13 MW, and Digitalk 101 adds, has a presence in more than 220 locations across over 75 countries.