TPSA publishes numbers subscribing to its Internet access services

According to a TPSA forecast published recently in its iTePe bulletin, the number of its subscribers using broadband access to the Internet will increase to 600,000 - six times more than at present - before the end of 2005. The company, for the first time, revealed a report concerning the number of discount Internet access packets sold so far, as well as the number of customers using TPSA special Internet access telephone numbers. According to figures, in 2001 the number of people using discount packets was 60,000 and before the end of this year it may even top 128,000. The number of Internet access telephone numbers users increased in 2001 by 21% as compared to 2000 and this year it is likely to reach almost 1.3 million. An upward trend can also be seen in usage of TPSA's ADSL (Neostrada) broad-band Internet access, which served 6,536 customers and should capture 18,000 clients by the end of the year, while SDI which had 91,000 clients will provide access to 100,000 consumers. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B5) J.K.