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Stream Poland has signed a contract for delivery of Wi-Max base stations and customer premises equipment with a Polish company Ente of Gliwice. Ente uses chipsets which constitute the hart of that technology manufactured by Waveset of Canada. The first deliveries are scheduled for the second half of July. Once the equipment is installed Stream intends to offer wireless communication services to its licensed regions.

In another cost saving initiative Stream Poland has recently transferred its in-house billing process to an outsourcing company in Warsaw called Inforsys. http://www.inforsystems.pl/en/

Przemyslaw Aussenberg, Director

Mr. Aussenberg brings over 15 years of experience in business management and has held a number of executive management positions, including Financial Director for ITI Group, a media conglomerate in Poland active in various sectors of entertainment, such as television, multiplex cinemas and movie production companies. Mr. Aussenberg was also Chief Financial Officer and a Board member with TVN, a leading commercial television company in Poland.

He served as Chief Financial Officer of Elektrim S.A., an energy and telecom conglomerate listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange which indirectly controlled 25% of PTC, the largest mobile telephone operator in Poland. Since 2004, Mr. Aussenberg has been a Board member of Kouri Capital, responsible for business development and restructuring.

TPSA Launches IPTV Platform

The incumbent Polish telco TPSA has launched its long-awaited IPTV service. Known as videostrada tp, it is available in Warsaw and environs and is the first in Central and Eastern Europe to employ MPEG-4 compression. Its offer includes Cyfra+ DSL, described as complementary to the Cyfra+ DTH service and consisting of four programme packages, HBO and Canal+; all TVP and several TVN-branded channels; and the interactive channels 4fun.TV and ITV. There are also three foreign channels offered (Deutsche Welle, Euronews and TV5 Europe), and the service can be received for as little as PLN9.57 (€2.36) a month – PLN37.57 a month, including Cyfra+ DSL – by subscribers to TPSA’s Neostrada ADSL broadband service who already own a TP livebox modem.

Polish VOD Venture

Poland’s leading independent production company ATM Group and Monolith Films have agreed to create a new company that will distribute high quality VOD content to the Polish market. Earlier this month Wroclaw-based ATM Group announced that it plans to invest up to PLN47.8 million (€12.36 million) in 2006 on various projects including an IPTV service it is currently developing with Telefonia Dialog, Poland’s largest alternative telco. The service, which is expected to make its debut later this year, will be operated by Tele Video Media, a 51/49 joint venture between ATM Grupa and Telefonia Dialog and compete with one shortly to be launched by the France Telecom-backed incumbent TPSA.

Poland’s National Broadcasting Council (KRRiT) has granted the public broadcaster TVP licences for two more thematic channels. To be known as TVP Sport and TVP Rozrywka, they will now need the approval of the Office of Electronic Communications (UKE) but could make their debuts as soon as this September. The channels, which will be encoded and distributed by Astra, are likely to be eventually joined by at least four more services – TVP Dokument, TVP Film, TV Parlament and the recently announced TVP Bialorus (Belarus). TVP launched TVP Kultura, its first thematic channel, in spring last year.


		Volume 08 : June 2006 : Vancouver - Kraków