Notebooks sell well in Poland. Last year, there
were 880,000 notebooks sold. Growing number of notebooks means that wireless
internet is getting more and more popular. Over 500,000 subscribers use it
already. Mobile operators expected that several hundreds thousand more people
will buy the services this year. Prices should decrease in the near
future.
“So far, wireless internet access services were directed to business
clients mainly. However, along with growing number of notebooks used by
individual clients, the operators need to change their strategies”, Pawel
Olszynka, the head of telecommunication market analyses and IT unit at PMR
company said.
In his opinion, within a year, the prices of all kinds of
broadband internet access will start to become similar. Mobile internet access
will inevitably drop.
All operators admit that the wireless internet access
market develops rapidly. TP with Orange brand says it has 200,000 subscribers.
When another operator, Era, offered notebooks for PLN 1 (EUR 0.264) for clients
buying Blueconnect (mobile internet access), there were so many people
interested that there are no more notebooks now.
“At the end of March, there
were about 150,000 Blueconnect users. We are going to get 100,000 new clients
till the end of this year”, Piotr Fedor from PTC, the owner of Era said. Plus,
the brand owned by Polkomtel, has 180,000 users today. In the last months, their
number has doubled.
(PLN 1 = EUR 0.264)