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Four Polish wireless operator plan a joint bid for mobile TV service (Poland)

  • August 29th, 2008
  • 12:38 pm

Four Polish wireless network operator have reportedly taken a lead on the other prospective bidders in order to secure a mobile TV licence. For the following licence the tender is due in October.
The four operators, P4 (Play), Orange Poland, Polkomtel and PTC, in a joint bid, are planning to make a future mobile TV service unconditionally available to broadcasters.

   

Netia considers sale of P4 stake (Poland)

  • January 9th, 2008
  • 2:52 pm

Polish operator Netia is considering selling its stake in mobile operator P4 to finance its growth strategy for the period 2008-2009. The company received on 7 January an indicative expression of interest to acquire the stake. Netia’s management will make an in-depth analysis and choose between divesting the 23.4 percent stake in P4, thereby focusing even more on its broadband activities, or gathering equity financing to support both broadband and P4 development according to the current strategy. Polish mobile operator P4 had over 700,000 subscribers at the start of December, and Netia estimates that its stake in P4 is now worth well over the EUR 79.5 million it contributed to start up the mobile operation. Still, Netia expects that important additional equity contributions and extended stakeholder support will be needed to secure debt financing sufficient to fund P4 through to cash flow break-even. If Netia sells its stake, it plans to still maintain agreements to provide mobile services over P4’s network and for Netia to provide data transmission services to P4.

   

Netia, P4 partner on converged services (Poland)

  • December 10th, 2007
  • 2:13 pm

Polish fixed-line operator Netia has signed a service provision agreement with its affiliate mobile operator P4. The cooperation will concern aspects such as incorporation of P4’s mobile products and services to the offer available to Netia’s clients and the introduction of a joint offer of fixed-line and mobile services. Netia will distribute the new products, under its own brand name.

   

Huawei wins Polish 3G contract (Poland)

  • September 20th, 2007
  • 1:35 pm

Chinese vendor Huawei has revealed that it has been awarded a contract by cellco PTK Centertel (Orange Poland) to supply a UMTS/HSPA network. The work will take three years and will see all Poland’s major cities connected. Orange Poland had just over 13 million subscribers at the end of June 2007, of whom 131,000 took 3G services. The cellco is neck and neck with Polkomtel and Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa (PTC) in the fight for market share, each taking around a third. Fourth operator P4 launched earlier this year offering 3G services, but has yet to establish itself.

   

 

P4 slashes roaming costs to hit targets

  • June 21st, 2007
  • 7:41 am

Polish cellco P4 has announced plans to slash roaming costs in a move designed to poach customers from its three better established rivals. The company, a subsidiary of Netia, said it was on track to meet its plan to add 750,000 customers by the end of 2007 and should hit the million mark by March 2008.

P4, which operates under the Play banner, launched its services in March this year, prompting concerns of a price war in a market sewn up by three networks owned by France Telecom (Orange Poland) , Deutsche Telekom (Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa) and Vodafone (Polkomtel).

(Poland)

   
 

Netia Q1 revenue down 6% to PLZ 204.4 million

  • May 17th, 2007
  • 1:56 pm

Polish alternative operator Netia has reported revenue of PLZ 204.4 million for Q1 2007, down 6 percent from Q1 2006 and down 3 percent from Q4 2006. The fall was mainly attributed to weak revenue from wholesale and interconnection services. Data revenues reached PLZ 51.4 million in Q1 2007, up by 46 percent or PLZ 16.2 million from Q1 2006, as direct voice revenues fell by 11 percent or PLZ 11.5 million year-on-year to PLZ 97.5 million. EBITDA reached PLZ 54.6 million for Q1 2007, down from PLZ 58.8 million in Q1 2006. Netia posted a net loss of PLZ 37.8 million for Q1 2007, of which PLZ 25.6 million is attributable to its share in the start-up losses of mobile operator P4. Netia had a total of 101,822 broadband customers at end-March, divided into 62,528 xDSL users over its own network, 35,836 bitstream access users, 2,192 WiMAX internet users, and 1,266 other broadband customers. Netia network subscriber lines reached 398,949 at end-March, versus 406,738 a year earlier. Voice ARPU fell 9 percent year-on-year from PLZ 89 to PLZ 81, with broadband ARPU reaching PLZ 110 in Q1 2007.