Play and T-Mobile begin to work on LTE. Competition for plus? - Legal Newspaper

– Our investment process moves very quickly – and Marcin Gruszka, a spokesman for Playa. Does not want to give any details. According to our information Play is already close to choose a company to handle the construction of its network. Among the most relevant stakeholders mentioned Sweden’s Ericsson and China’s Huawei.

– Obtained by reservation decision allows us to take the next steps in the project, which is to launch mobile services, high-speed data transmission in LTE – said Ma?gorzata Rybak-Dow?yk, director of corporate communications at T-Mobile Poland.

Polish mobile market

source: Official Legal Newspaper

Within two years, both companies have to build (or upgrade) the 3.2 thousand. base stations, of which at least half will be built in rural, semi-urban areas or towns with less than one hundred thousand. residents. Investments in building a network based on 1800, according to experts, will cost Playa and T-Mobile for a total of 0.5 to 1 billion z?.

– Within one year from the date of the decision on the broadband market in LTE technology will be competitive and modern services become more accessible. As consumers, we gain the opportunity to choose between several offers, and high-speed mobile internet to reach the small towns and the countryside – Magdalena Gaj said, adding that it also will result in the reduction of the digital divide in areas of poor infrastructure.

The person who is for the time being without access to LTE, is Orange Poland. The market, however, it is speculated that it could agree on sharing bandwidth with T-Mobile, and even the beach.

At the end of the Office of Electronic Communications plans to turn an auction issue on sale more spectrum for mobile broadband speed: 800 Mhz and 2600 Mhz. All operators declare their interest in bidding.

case is one more aspect – loss. Since yesterday, within 14 days of the two operators are required to pay to the Treasury the amount declared in the tender for frequencies: Play 498 million z?, and T-Mobile 453.5 million z?. The Ministry of Finance expects that the total sales of all frequencies to earn at least 3 billion z?.