Another PTC network MVNO in Q4 2007

2007-06-21

PTC, the operator of the Era and Heyah networks, has stated that the second agreement on the launch of a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) on the basis of PTC’s infrastructure might be announced in the fourth quarter of the year.
PTC has said that it is in talks with a number of companies interested in becoming MVNOs but has refused to disclose any details with regard to those companies. The virtual operator, which could start to operate in 2007, will not be Tele2, which negotiated with the Era operator but eventually asked the Office of Electronic Communications (UKE) to come up with wholesale prices. PTC emphasises that the European Commission stated that the regulator does not have the authority to impose prices prior to carrying out the relevant market analysis. The operator insists that, according to the existing analyses, PTC operates in a competitive market and this does not entitle the UKE to impose prices.
The operator estimates that by the end of 2007 there may be around ten MVNOs in Poland and between ten and twenty by the end of the following year. PTC stated that the virtual operators might bring in between 10 and 20 per cent of the infrastructural operators’ revenues in two-to-three years’ time.
So far, PTC has signed an MVNO agreement with Cyfrowy Polsat, a digital satellite TV platform, but the latter has not yet commenced operations. It was the first MVNO in Poland to sign such an agreement, but the launch of mobile services under its own brand name was delayed and is expected to take place by the end of 2007.

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