T-Mobile Polska

T-Mobile Polska SA
legal form	Corporation
founding	1995
Seat	Warsaw , Poland
management	Adam Sawicki ( CEO )
Number of employees	4,000
sales	1.54 billion euros
Branch	telecommunications
Website	www.t-mobile.pl
As of December 31, 2015

T-Mobile Polska SA (TMPL for short) is a Polish mobile communications company based in Warsaw . Deutsche Telekom is co-founder and now the sole owner .

history

The company was founded in 1995 in Warsaw under the name Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa (PTC) as a limited liability company. Deutsche Telekom had a 49% share in the founding. On February 26, 1996, PTC received its first nationwide license for telecommunications services in the GSM standard 900 and launched the Era GSM brand in September of the same year . In 1998, PTC added pre-paid contracts under the Era Tak Tak brand to its offering .

In 2000, the company acquired a UMTS license for Poland and immediately began building the technology for this network. In order to better reach young customers as a target group, PTC introduced the additional Heyah brand for pre-paid contracts in March 2004 .

In April 2010, two board members were arrested for suspected fraud and tax evasion. The Warsaw public prosecutor's office dropped the allegations and decided not to open criminal proceedings. The Deutsche Telekom nevertheless announced a termination without notice, because from their point of view it has been shown to have exceeded competencies and “serious breaches of duty”.

On December 15, 2010, after more than ten years of legal dispute with the French Vivendi and the Polish Elektrim group, Deutsche Telekom was able to reach an out-of-court settlement to take over the remaining shares in Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa that it had not yet held . In return for payment of a total of 2.1 billion euros, Deutsche Telekom then owned 100% of the company. Shortly afterwards, the group decided to change its appearance and gradually began to introduce its T-Mobile brand, which is used in Germany for the mobile communications business, in Poland on June 5, 2011 . On August 1, 2011, the legal form was changed from PTC to a stock corporation and on May 27, 2013 the company name changed to T-Mobile Polska .

Since the takeover of the Central and Eastern European backbone provider GTS Central Europe for 546 million euros by the parent company Deutsche Telekom in June 2014, the infrastructure and services of the Polish subsidiaries GTS Poland and T-Mobile Polska have been gradually merged. In October 2015, the Polish regulatory authority Urząd Komunikacji Elektronicznej (UKE) announced in Warsaw that T-Mobile Polska had acquired access to an extended spectrum for the equivalent of 496 million euros at the most recent auction of additional mobile radio frequencies for Poland, which was going on for several months. Of the competitors in this auction, only the French Orange Group invested an even larger amount for new frequencies with the equivalent of EUR 760 million.

According to the company, T-Mobile Polska achieved network coverage with 3G of almost 100% of the Polish national territory in 2015 , reached almost 50% of the population with 4G- LTE and, as the third largest provider in Poland, served a total of 15.7 million customers.

Brands

Former Era logo

The company operates under three brand names on the Polish mobile communications market. The Era brand, introduced by the company in 1996, was discontinued after 2011:

• T-Mobile Jump , formerly Era (pre-paid and post-paid)
• T-Mobile na kartę , formerly T-Mobile Tak Tak , formerly Era Tak Tak (pre-paid)
• Heyah , virtual operator (pre-paid)

Sponsorship

The company was the main sponsor of Ekstraklasa , the first Polish football league , from 2011 to 2015 .

Web links

Commons : T-Mobile Polska  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• T-Mobile Polska website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Deutsche Telekom in Poland , Deutsche Telekom corporate website , accessed on February 28, 2016
2. ↑ Marc Kessler: Manager of Deutsche Telekom arrested in Poland . In: teltarif.de , April 29, 2010, accessed on February 22, 2018
3. ↑ prosecutor Warsaw, Docket VDs 116/09 from 28 October 2012
4. ↑ Lisa Inhoffen: Telekom throws managers out . In: General-Anzeiger Bonn, June 11, 2010, accessed on February 22, 2018
5. ↑ Deutsche Telekom concludes agreement to secure undisputed ownership of Polish PTC , Deutsche Telekom company website , December 15, 2015, accessed on February 16, 2016
6. ↑ Deutsche Telekom - 500 million euros for frequencies in Poland . In: Wirtschaftswoche , October 19, 2015, accessed on February 22, 2018