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Poland’s average ARPU to reach US$ 21.14/month (Poland)

  • September 9th, 2008
  • 12:51 pm

Four mobile network operators are currently serving Poland’s mobile market, which is one of the largest in Europe. Subscriber levels is continuing to grow despite penetration levels indicative of a mature market, while a number of Mobile Virtual Network Operators have commenced operations.

All four mobile network operators offer 3G services, with mobile broadband and content seen as the next growth market given low penetration of existing mobile data services.

OPERATORS:
Orange Polska
Plus GSM
Era
Play

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.

TeliaSonera is in negotiations to purchase the Polish mobile phone operator Play from a private equity fund Novator. Play plans to boost the number of it’s subscribers this years to 2 million from 1.4 million and is planning to triple revenues to 800 million zlotys ($351.3 million) and expects break even by the end of the decade.

Notable highlights of Poland Mobile Forecast include:

  • The number of total subscribers in Poland will increase from 44.5 million in 2008 to 49.5 million in 2010. This implies an increase in the wireless penetration rate from 116.5% to 130.8% over this period.
  • PTC, Polkomtel and PTK Centertel will continue to have similar market shares in the range of 32% - 36% each over the forecast period of 2008 - 2010. However, all of them will see their market shares fall slightly over the next few years as a new operator, Play, increases its market share from 3.5% in 2008 to 5.2% in 2010.
  • In 2010, the average EBITDA margin will be 34.1%, and the average ARPU will be US$ 21.14 per month in Poland.

   

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.

   

Vivendi wins Polish appeal over PTC stake

  • January 22nd, 2007
  • 10:33 am

Telegeography writes…Vivendi has won an appeal at Poland’s Supreme Court in a dispute over the ownership of a 48% stake in wireless network operator Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa (PTC). Vivendi and Deutsche Telekom have been at loggerheads over a deal which saw the German company acquire Elektrim’s equity in PTC late last year. However, Poland’s Supreme Court has now overturned a March ruling by the Warsaw Court of Appeal and as a result calls for Deutsche Telekom and Elektrim to ‘recognize Vivendi’s rights to the PTC Shares’.

The long-running dispute centres around whether Deutsche Telekom had the right to exercise a call option on the disputed 48% of PTC. Vivendi maintained Elektrim was not permitted to sell the stake, arguing that it did not belong to Elektrim, but rather to Elektrim Telekomunikacja (also known as Telco), a holding company in which Elektrim and Vivendi owned stakes.

Vivendi is quoted by Reuters as saying that it plans to continue all earlier legal proceedings, not only in Poland but in other countries including France, Switzerland, Britain and the United States, where it aims to ‘assert its rights to the PTC shares and recover damages for the harm it has suffered.’ Last year Vivendi filed a complaint in Washington state against Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile, under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations (RICO) Act, in which it accused the German company of illegally appropriating Vivendi’s USD2.5 billion investment in PTC.