Warsaw (Puls Biznesu) – PSE energy company wants to give Exatel 5,500 km of fiber.
The merger of energy companies into Polska Grupa Energetyczna (PGE) may be very good for Exatel, the operator of 19,000 km of fibers owned mainly by energy firms.
“Exatel will be the center of consolidation of telecommunication assets inside the group. We want to give the fibers which are today owned by distribution companies”, Henryk Baranowski, Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne (PSE) CEO said.
Eight distribution companies have jointly 5,500 km of fibers. Exatel manages 1,000 km of them. With the new assets, the operator will increase its present assets which amount to 6,000 km of its own network and 6,500 km leased from PSE.
“After the consolidation PGE Exatel will offer telecommunication services for the whole group. Thanks to consolidating all the assets within one company, it will be easier to make use of the infrastructure. Exatel on the other hand will be able to save PLN 2m (EUR 524,000) annually”, Henryk Baranowski said.
The idea seems right. However, there have already been problems with the evaluation of the assets. When PSE assets were added to Exatel’s, specialists said that PLN 214m was not the right amount, especially that Tel-Energo used to pay PLN 90m of annual fee.
Exatel, whose CEOs change every several months is not developing as planned before. The wireless internet access WiMAX is delaying. Exatel was going to cover 36 cities this year and spend PLN 150m. In September, it said it would be 19 cities till the end of the first half of next year.
(PLN 1 = EUR 0.262)