€300m to be spent on backbone network in Eastern Poland

2007-06-28

The government plans to spend €300m on the construction of the backbone networks in the eastern and central parts of Poland. The project’s objective is to have 90% of households and all of the institutions in five voivodships within the remit of broadband.
The EU funds are expected to cover €255m of the planned investments, and the remainder is to be paid for by the local authorities. Negotiations with the European Commission are underway and are expected to conclude in September.
The Eastern Poland Broadband Network project is based on a similar one launched in the Malopolska region. The plan assumes that the regional backbone networks will cover almost all towns and villages. The infrastructure will be owned, for five years, by the local authorities, who will outsource the operation of the networks to companies which will not be allowed to offer services to end users. These will be provided by telecommunications operators on the basis of the backbone networks. The operators are to build the last mile access networks on their own, and the Ministry of Regional Development (MRR) estimates that they will spend around €300m.
The last mile infrastructure might use the 3.6-3.8 GHz frequencies for which the Office of Electronic Communications (UKE) is going to announce 60 regional tenders expected to conclude by September 2008. The UKE insists that the tender specifications will not favour one technology over any other, and there will, therefore, be no limitations with regard to the method of connecting the end user to the backbone network.

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