MAP > Internet Providers in Poland

The Poland’s liberalized telecom market has enjoyed some growth in the recent years, with regulatory environment having been well shaped by the EU principles designed to be able to facilitate the competition and also encourage the competing operators to be able to join the market. Recently, this was extended to launching Orange Poland’s fiber network to be able to access as well as pricing regulation. The fixed broadband market has been able to enjoy from the excellent cross-platform competition, with the comprehensive DSL infrastructure combined with the extensive cable networks as well as the growing fiber presence.

The commercial considerations means that the fiber was for a limited period of time restricted to the number of the urban areas, though the more recently sector has been able to receive considerable financial support from government and EU aimed at being able to build the fiber-based networks across this country as well as promoting the fiber connectivity to the end users. Well, as a proportion of the broadband subscribers receiving the service of at least 100 Mb/s has gone and increased sharply in the more recent years.

Orange Poland has dominated the fixed broadband market although we have seen some consolidations among the operators. The UPC Poland has been in particular grown through the acquisitions through the bid to take over cable assets of the Multimedia Polska got to be abandoned in early 2018 following the regulatory concerns over proposed deals impact on the market competition. The mobile market has enjoyed the rapid extension of the LTE networks as well as the development of the mobile data services based on the newly released as well as the reformed spectrum. Also, a regulator, as well as the operators alike, have been preparing for the 5G, with regulator embarking on the long term strategy and with the operators including Orange Poland preparing to the trial services based on the 5G technologies in the year 2019.

The mobile penetration in Poland has been above European average, hence standing at close to 141% by the early 2018. This has reflected continuing popularity among the consumers to keep two or even more sim cards that have distorted real mobile penetration. Distortion has been addressed on the two fronts; by the network operators being advised to go on and disconnect the dormant SIM cards as well as by the legislation, effective from February 2017 that obliges the subscribers of the prepaid services to be able to register their details.