BRE and Telewizja Kablowa Vectra working together to expand customer base

Telewizja Kablowa Vectra and the BRE Bank group are teaming up to offer Internet access and banking services through the former's network, with the aim of expanding BRE's customer base. BRE Bank group holds 26% of Cable.com, into which Vectra has transferred zl.130 million. "We have invested $30 million into Cable.com, as a long-term investment, because the company seems to perform significantly better than average," said Maciej Zientara from BRE's Assets Management Department. "Cable television has become a telecommunications platform and we cannot afford passing up such a chance. We have a fiber-optic cable network 200 kilometers in length for digital service transmission," said president of Vectra Tomasz Wegrzynski. Vectra is the third-largest cable television provider in Poland with 450,000 households in smaller towns. "Vectra customers are our potential customers. We want to offer modern electronic banking services, as cable television may unify telecommunication and electronic banking in the future," claims Maciej Zientara. (Parkiet, pp. 1, 2)