PTC's third generation

Over seven million PTC customers will have access to the UMTS network by the end of 2006 at the latest. In Łódź, Tricity, Szczecin, Toruń, Bydgoszcz, Kraków and Katowice UMTS will be provided by Ericsson, while Poznań, Wrocław and Lublin will be covered by Siemens.

Tadeusz Kubiak, PTC's CEO, refused to reveal the cost of building the necessary infrastructure. "We could finance the entire operation from own resources but it's not always profitable," he said. It was only announced that Łódź and Wrocław will be the first cities to be able to use 3G telephony. It is also known that UMTS services will be accessible both in buildings and in open spaces.

Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa, the owner of the Era and Heyah brands, is the biggest mobile operator in Poland with some 8.6 million customers.