Poland’s economy is the second largest in eastern Europe behind Russia, and it is blessed with fierce local demand for telecoms services as well as being strongly positioned to cater for growing international connectivity between Asia and Europe.
The country is in possession of a well developed mobile market served by a balanced mix of mobile operators and MVNOs. LTE has been in trial there since late 2010 when a number of players built the country’s first base stations, having secured frequencies in the 850MHz, 900MHz, 1.8GHz and 2.6GHz bands. According to analyst firm BuddeComm, plans are in place for the nation’s operators to eventually oversee about 2,000 base stations in the 1800MHz band and a further 3,350 in the 900MHz band, providing 60% geographic and 75% population coverage.
There have been several key developments in the Polish market in the last year....