Warsaw (Puls Biznesu) – With a small delay on Monday the Polish telecommunication authorities plan to announce their decision freeing the WLR market.
The Polish electronic media authorities UKE should on Monday issue a key decision for the telecommunication market – the decision on wholesale line rental (WLR). At first, the decision will concern only Tele2 which filed a suit against TP, the national former monopoly telecom.
“We will wait several months to see how it works. Then we will try to make it general and use analogical rules to the framework offer so that they apply to the other operators as well”, Anna Strezynska, UKE CEO said.
In the future, all telecoms will offer their clients one subscription fee and unlimited quantity of calls. That’s why lower WLR fees at TP are key for the competition in the sector.
Prior to issuing the WLR decision, the authorities will have to make decision concerning starting calls in the fixed network and decide whether the market is competitive. According to Anna Strezynska, the decision should be made this Friday. This decision is the reason for the delay but it was demanded by the European Commission. TP approved of it.
“We have been repeating for 18 months now that first an analysis of the markets should be raedy and then WLR decision made”, Grazyna Piotrowska-Oliwa from TP said.
However, her company does not like the decision of UKE.
“Tele2 will have to pay PLN 20 (EUR 4.9). It will add PLN 14 for its costs. Our cheapest subscription fee amounts to PLN 40. When you sum it all up, it turns out that it will be Tele2 who will save money, and not the clients”, Grazyna Piotrowska-Oliwa explained.
(PLN 1 = EUR 0.249)