WORLDWIDE MARKET RESEARCH REPORT - CISE

EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920
Work Package: 6
Type of document: Report
Date: 20.12.2007
File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0
Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 147 / 356
As it regards the telephony, according to the EU Report, there were 69 operators offering
fixed-line telephony services in Poland as of September 1, 2005. The fixed-line telephony
decline that is clearly visible in most of the other member states of the European Union has
not yet affected Poland to the same extent. In fact, if one looks at the whole 2000 to 2005
period and not just 2005, this sector in Poland grew considerably as the number of main
telephone lines in absolute terms and in per capita terms increased by 3.3% and 3.4%,
respectively. The Polish fixed-line market still has potential for growth.
As shown in the EITO Annex, in 2005, an average Polish consumer spent € 261 on
telephony services while in Spain (similar to Poland in terms of population), the average
spending reached € 721 per capita. The spending on telephony services in Poland is also
considerably lower than in the Czech Republic or Hungary.
Multimedia offers standard telephony services and a number of additional services provided
over conventional PSTN networks as well as cable networks using VoIP (digital) or HDT
(analogue) technology.
At the end of September 2007, Multimedia's clients used some 159,000 telephone lines,
including 104,000 PSTN lines and 55,000 cable network connections (mostly VoIP).
Besides Multimedia, there are others multimedia service providers in Poland, such as DTV
Service, TPSA and Vectra.
[E14] The Polish incumbent telco TPSA would start to offer internet access speeds of up to
50Mbps in parts of Warsaw from later November 2007, according to a local report. Although
the France Telecom-backed company launched an IPTV service almost 18 months ago, only
around 30% of its existing infrastructure is capable of delivering broadband internet and
video.
In the same day (14 th November 2007), the Polish MSO Vectra has announced that it plans
to have 100,000 digital TV subscribers by the end of the year. Speaking to local sources,
Vectra also said that it expects to introduce HDTV, VoD and PVR in 2008. Vectra launched
its digital TV service in November 2006, and as of the end of this year it was received in
75,000 homes. It is currently available in 14 cities, and the growth will partly be achieved by
the service’s expansion to Bialystok in the north east of the country. Vectra vies for second