It's cheaper to chat

Polish telecom Telefonia Dialog hopes its offer of a fast internet connection for zł.24 a month and the guarantee of a constant price for the service, along with offering weekend rates starting on Thursday, will attract a spate of new customers. Currently, the telecom has almost 67,000 broadband subscribers, and the new offer can be directed to a total of 400,000 Dialog subscribers, mostly in Lower Silesia.

Still, the company expects the number of its broadband users will amount to 100,000 by the end of March 2007. The number may grow in the second half of next year.

"Dialog will be able to use the connections of the national operator. We will try to provide a similar offer for Telekomunikacja Polska's subscribers and if it's possible, it will be the same one as for our subscribers," says Sławomir Szych, president of Telekomunikacja Dialog.

The company has divided their customers into four groups of internet users: those who make frequent phone calls; those who use the phone rarely; those who use VoIP technology (internet telephony) to make calls; and those who don't use fixed-phone lines. The first three groups can use Dialog now. The offer of broadband without a fixed-line telephone connection will be ready next year.

In April next year Dialog will launch internet TV. According to Szych, the company will prepare its own content, but it doesn't exclude cooperation with other content providers.