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| Company type | Public |
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| WSE: OPL | |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | 4 December 1991; 33 years ago (1991-12-04) (as Telekomunikacja Polska) 16 April 2012; 13 years ago (2012-04-16) (as Orange Polska) |
| Headquarters | , Poland |
Key people | Liudmila Climoc (CEO) Maciej Witucki [pl] (chairman of thesupervisory board) |
| Revenue |  PLN 15.715billion (2010)[1] |
| PLN 0.107 billion (2010)[1] | |
| Owner | Orange S.A. (50.67%) |
Number of employees | 12,376 (2019) |
| Website | www.orange.pl |
Orange Polska SA (formerlyTelekomunikacja Polska) is a Polishtelecommunications provider established in December 1991. It is apublic company traded on theWarsaw Stock Exchange, with a controlling stake owned byOrange S.A., the latter controlling over 50% of this stake by 2002. It operates the following services:PSTN,ISDN,GSM 900/1800 network (+3GUMTS,4GLTE and5GNR),ADSL,IDSL,FTTHfibre Internet,Frame Relay,ATM andInmarsat.
Telekomunikacja Polska was established in December 1991 as ajoint stock company under the control of the State Treasury, following the split-up of the communist era state-ownedPTT entityPolish Post, Telegraph and Telephone [pl]. On 1 January 1992, the company began operations under the name of 'TP SA'. The company changed its ownership structure in 1998 and began trading on theWarsaw Stock Exchange in 2000. In the same year, the Treasury sold a 35% stake in TPSA to a consortium ofFrance Télécom andKulczyk Holding, with the consortium increasing its stake by a further 12.5% in 2001.
On 21 December 2007, TP SA was fined PLN 75 million (approximately EUR 20.7 million) by theOffice for Competition and Consumer Protection [pl] for discriminating against its competitors on the internet services market.[2]
Full privatisation of the company was completed in May 2010.[3]
In 2010 the company reported that they had almost 500,000 pay TV subscribers,[4] with the number now being 695,000 (as of late 2012).[5] The company currently serves approximately 5.6 million broadband customers.[6]
In 2011, TP SA had a $430 million claim filed against them byGN Store Nord (GN), which owns 75% of DPTG, in the second phase of an arbitration trial.Bloomberg reported that, "DPTG won a 2.2 billion-krone award in September at an arbitration tribunal inVienna. The tribunal said the company had improperly calculated what it owed DPTG for a fiber-optic transmission system the venture installed in 1991. "TP SA" owed payments based on data traffic over the network. The companies disagreed over how to measure the traffic and spent nine years in arbitration. The September award covered traffic from 1994 to 2004, and the new claim refers to 2004 to 2009. TPSA has not paid the first award and has filed a complaint about the arbitration, while GN has started enforcement proceedings in Poland and theNetherlands."[7]
On 16 April 2012, Telekomunikacja Polska was renamed as Orange Polska, in line with France Télécom's international telecommunications branding.[8]
Orange Polska'sADSL service inPoland is calledNeostrada. The service is widely available throughout the country and is one of the most heavily subscribed to in Poland. In addition, Orange Polska also operates one of the largest residentialfibre Internet (FTTH) networks in the country, branded asOrange Światłowód (formerlyOrange Supernova).
Orange Polska mobile was founded in December 1991 to operate an analogue (first-generation) network under theCentertel brand. The network usedNordic Mobile Telephone standard known asNMT450i - working on 450 MHz band with some improvements copied from NMT900.
In 1998, it launchedIdea, Poland's thirdGSM network, operating on both the 900 and 1800-MHz bands from the beginning. Until 2001, when the network stopped registering new subscribers for analogue services, Idea was known asIdea Centertel. Idea's slogan wasŁączy Cię z ludźmi ("Connects you with people").
In March 2010, NMT network shutdown has been announced.[9] However, network had been kept operational until 2012 as it had a few hundred active users.[10] Former analogue customers were offered GSM contracts by 2012 to set up aCDMA2000 network on 450 MHz band.
Idea adopted theOrange brand name in 2005, although the operating company was still legally called PTK Centertel until 31 December 2013. It, along with parent company Orange Polska S.A., is controlled byOrange S.A. The brand change took place simultaneously on 19 September 2005. The company sponsored a free concert inWarsaw byBritish musicianSting on 24 September 2005 for 150,000 of its clients to publicise the changeover.
The company also operatesWLAN,3GUMTS,4GLTE and5GNR networks in Poland. As of late 2011, the network had 14.7 million subscribers.[6]
In March 2013, Orange Poland (OPL) officially launched mobile access to the Internet usingIPv6 protocol for its subscribers. Solution[11] is based on IPv6-only APN with CLAT/NAT64/DNS. Implementation of the 464xlat architecture.[12] is mandatory on device - CPE[13][14]
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