Polkomtel preparing to launch broadband service?

Not so long ago the company's president Jarosław Bauc admitted that it is considering a jump into the broadband arena, now due to growing data transmission demands from its customers the company is unofficially collecting offers of cooperation. Polkomtel spokesman Adam Suchenek says that the company is currently calculating the market's potential in the wake of Plus noting a 962% increase in traffic. Plus is now handling 250 terabytes of data per year, a large part of which is due to an increasing number of clients signing up to iPlus wireless Internet access. Polkomtel foresees demand for wireless service growing, and has signed an agreement with China's ZTE to provide data transmission cards. If both it and PTC decide to launch broadband operations Telekomunikacja Polska could be in for some serious competition. (Puls Biznesu p.10-11) M.M.