United Kingdom - Telecoms, IP Networks, Digital Media and Forecasts

This report provides a comprehensive overview of trends and developments in the Polish telecommunications market. The report analyses the mobile, Internet, broadband, digital TV and converging media sectors.

Subjects include:

Market and industry analyses, trends and developments;
Facts, figures and statistics;
Industry and regulatory issues;
Infrastructure;
Major players, revenues, subscribers, ARPU, MoU;
Internet, VoIP, IPTV;
Mobile voice and data markets;
Broadband (FttH, DSL, cable TV, wireless);
Convergence and digital media;
3G subscriber and mobile ARPU forecasts to 2015; Broadband market forecasts for selective years to 2020.

Key developments:

Liberty Global consolidates cableco leadership with Aster City purchase; UPC plans 250Mb/s cable trial, extends 150Mb/s service to 1.6 million households; Telekomunikacja Polska losing broadband subscribers yet expands new VDSL Neostrada Fiber offer; EC fines TP €127.6 million for anti-competitive practices in the broadband market; Netia and TP head fibre-based consortia to extend broadband nationally; memorandum signed for constructing a national broadband infrastructure; large drop in average cost of mobile broadband plans; cablecos step up network investment in 2012; ASO confirmed for mid-2013; bundled services taken by 2.1 million customers; 75% of cable association PIKE subscribers can receive digital TV; Telekomunikacja Polska sells EmiTel for PLN1.7 billion; National Broadcasting Council awards licences for the final four channels on the first multiplex; Cyfra+ merges with digital TV platform ITI Neovision; incumbent predicts phase-out of single-play fixed-line telephony by 2015; Polkomtel sold for €4.56 billion; SMS use grows 7% in 2010; T-Mobile and Orange Poland network sharing joint venture, NetWorkS!, approved by the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection; regulator announces 2012 tender for LTE in the 2.50-2.57GHz and 2.62-2.69GHz bands; Cyfrowy Polsat launches LTE offer; Orange expands mobile wallet offering to Poland; regulator signs 800MHz usage agreement with Ukraine; Cyfrowy Polsat buys the mobile TV platform operator Info TV-FM; regulator prepares for 1800MHz auction; Visa Europe trials m-payment system for iPhone users; Polkomtel launches LTE with 22% population coverage; regulator eases cuts in MTR in exchange for network investment; regulator’s market data to end-2010, operator data to end-2011; market developments into 2012.

Companies covered in this report include:

Telekomunikacja Polska, Netia, Telefonia Dialog, GTS Energis, Exatel, Telekomunikacja Kolejowa, PTK Centertel, Polkomtel, T-Mobile, P4/Play, Centernet, Mobyland, UPC Polska, Vectra, Multimedia Polska, Aster, Cyfra+, Cyfrowy Polsat, N/TNK, TVP.