For two or three years, the telecommunications market has clearly begun to be divided into infrastructural operators offering access on a wholesale basis and service operators that reach the customer directly. Orange, Plus, Play with UPC are the owners of the network to a lesser and lesser extent – indicates “Rzeczpospolita”.
W 2021 r. Orange Polska sold half of the shares in the company to which it contributed fiber optic lines “Światłowod Inwestycje” for PLN 1.38 billion, and the Polsat Plus Group sold almost all shares in Polkomtel Infrastruktura (currently known as Towerlink Poland) for PLN 3.69 billion. Now these companies are trying to raise wholesale prices, which will later be transferred to retail.
As indicated in the article “Rzp” operators who they built infrastructure using EU funds however, they must obtain approval for an increase from the Office of Electronic Communications. The conclusions will probably be justified by, for example, the growing costs of electricity and inflation affecting workers’ wages.
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Such consent, according to the newspaper, was obtained by Fiberhost (formerly Inea), an infrastructural operator offering access to a broadband network from Wielkopolska. The increases amounted to 10 percent.
An application for a price increase for the company in which Fiber Optic Investments has half of the shares was also submitted by Orange Polska and is currently waiting for the UKE’s approval, the newspaper reports. Here, too, the network was built with the use of EU funds. Agreements with the company’s customers provided for increases of 2.5 percent. annually and such increases were introduced. But that’s apparently not enough.
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According to “Rzeczpospolita” information, retail operators are already preparing for increases. Orange Polska has introduced clauses in its contract with customers that allow it to raise prices if inflation exceeds 3%. that year. Similar provisions are used by T-Mobile.
