Telekomunikacja Polska (TP) warns that unless Poland applies to the EC decision, it will file a suit at the European Tribunal of Justice. TP again reminded that the European Commission had said that the Office of Electronic Communications (UKE) had no right to regulate prices for the access to broadband internet. Meanwhile, UKE has already fined TP with PLN 440m of fines, an amount constituting 80 percent of all fines from UKE to TP. The telecom believes the fines are illegal.
“The document from the EC means that 27 commissionaires confirmed the opinion that what UKE did was illegal in the EU”, Ireneusz Piecuch, TP secretary general said.
TP believes that UKE failed to cancel the fines although it had withdrawn from regulating broadband access when criticized by the EC and when the Polish government questioned the legal basis for the fine”, Maciej Rogalski from TP said.
Ireneusz Piecuch hoped that TP would avoid asking the European Tribunal of Justice for decision and hoped that UKE would start talks with the operator. TP representatives admitted that the company had not paid any fines and it was too early to discuss any claims.
(PLN 1 = EUR 0.289)