TP to launch triple play later this month

Wideostrada will be launched this month and initially it will be offered only in Warsaw. This is one of TP's most important projects for 2006 and it will probably consume the bulk of the operators zl.3 billion investment budget for this year. TP has already signed agreements with TVN and Canal+, and, according to Puls Biznesu, with TV5, Euronews and Deutsche Welle. TP's move may constitute a threat for cable services provides, who have had triple play on offer for a while now. Dorota Puchlew, an analyst with the PKO BP brokerage house, predicts that price will be the decisive factor: "If TP's services are more expensive than the cable operators, then it will lose out." (Puls Biznesu, p.1, 8) A.M.