IT News: ABC Data; Internet via MPEC; UPC; TPSA

ABC DATA of Warsaw, owned by German group Actebis, recorded sales revenues totalling zl. 940 million in 2002, 11% up y-o-y, which makes the company a leader on the wholesale IT products market (followed by Tech Data Polska with revenues of zl. 802 million over the same period). 80% of the company's orders were processed via the Internet sales system InterLink. ... MPEC, a heating company quoted on the WSE, has rolled out its Internet access network worth zl. 7.5 million on two housing estates in Wroclaw. This is the first network in the nation based on the use of the heating infrastructure optical fibre cables and copper cables system. The company is planning to cover 25,000 flats with its network before the end of this year, and to reach most areas of the city within the next five years. The whole investment is worth an estimated zl. 30 million. ... UPC, a cable provider, is to offer its broadband access to the Internet, Chello, in Katowice and the Tri-City, and it also plans to expand its product range in Krakow and Warsaw in Q2 2003. ... TPSA plans to attract a total of 250,000 clients for its broadband access to the Internet, Neostrada, as a result of improvements and the elimination of technical problems with the ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) technology used by the company. (IT News is C/O PMR e-Poland No. 92, www.polishmarket.com)