Wholesale telecommunications market shrank by 7.1%

The wholesale telecommunications market value fell by 7.1 percent year-on-year to PLN 5 billion, according to a report by PMR, a market research company. PMR estimates that the telecommunications market decreased by 0.7 percent in 2014 y/y, compared with a 3.8 percent contraction in 2013 y/y. “In 2013 mainly, but also in 2014, the Polish telecommunications market was deeply affected by the changes in a regulation zone. They influenced mobile phones market most of all, but the income decrease was also noticeable in the fixed telephony sector and the wholesale line rental market. In result, the wholesale telecommunications market value fell by 28 percent in 2013,” the report reads. The negative trend continued in 2014, when the wholesale telecommunications market shrank by 7.1 percent y/y.