Alcatel Lucent, fibre company Hawe and network infrastructure provider TP Teltech have been given the green light to establish a new joint venture aimed at boosting broadband in Poland.
It's about time: the country is seriously lagging behind its European neighbours on fixed broadband.
The joint venture, which got the necessary approval from Polish regulator UOKiK last week, will roll out broadband infrastructure in five voivodships (provinces) in the east of Poland: Warmia-Masuria, Lublin, Swietokrzyskie, Subcarpathian and Podlasie.
The five rollouts are being funded under the European Commission's Digital Agenda for Europe plan. The scheme's goal is to give all European citizens broadband connections of at least 30Mbps by 2020 and have half of households able to access at least 100Mbps. The Commission has given Poland around €1.5bn to spend between 2007 and 2013 to help achieve the plan's aims – and it's thought around 1bn zlotys of that (€250m) remains to be spent.
For more: Is Poland finally getting out of the broadband slow lane? | ZDNet
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