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The most popular ADSL services for home users in Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

are Neostrada provided by TPSA and Net24 provided by Netia

Netia

Netia a telecom which owns the second-largest fixed-line network in Poland. In 2006 Icelandic-owned Novator acquired a large stake in Netia. Netia and Novator announced that they are going to build a 4th mobile network in Poland....

. Both provide download speeds in the range of 1 to 6 Mb/sec. and upload speeds of 512kb/sec or more. Business users as well as some home users use Internet DSL TP also offered by TPSA. According to Eurostat, OECD and others, Internet access in Poland is among the most expensive in Europe. This is mostly caused by the lack of competitiveness and lack of know-how. New operators like Dialog and GTS Energis are making their own provider lines and offer more attractive and cheaper service. Recently,in February 2011, the Polish Office of Electronic Communication issued an order forcing the TPSA to rent 51% of their ADSL lines to other ISPs at 60% discount of their market pricing. As the result the prices are non-competitive, other ISP charge as TPSA making a guaranteed 40% profit, while TPSA has no incentive to lower its consumer prices, because it would result in lowering of wholesale pricing just as well. This order will definitely not affect the prices of DSL in Poland and most certainly will not improve speeds. But, the ping times are impressive at 28 sec. levels.

Internet DSL TP

There is another ADSL option available, targeted mainly at business clients, called Internet DSL TP. The link availability is guaranteed plus offers static IP address(es) and a modem with Ethernet interface.

Net24

ADSL service called Net24, provided by TP's main competitor Netia

Netia

. The service can be installed on ISDN lines.

Netia

Netia

also offers ADSL (BiznesNet24) and SDSL

SDSL

SDSL may refer to:*Symmetric digital subscriber line*Site-directed spin labeling...

(SuperNet24) subscriptions for business customers, which offer static IP address and higher speeds.
Netia does not offer its own lines and depends on TPSA lines which cannot carry anything above 6Mb/512kb - rather insufficent for a seriouse private or business lines. The simple email might be OK, but do not try to use the cloud or any deo conferencing with the 512kb upload seed.

Multimo

ADSL service called Multimo, provided by GTS Energis for TP customers via BitStream Access.

Cable

Cable providers such as UPC, Multimedia, Vectra and ASTER offer triple play

Triple play (telecommunications)

In telecommunications, triple play service is a marketing term for the provisioning of two bandwidth-intensive services, high-speed Internet access and television, and a less bandwidth-demanding service, telephone, over a single broadband connection. Triple play focuses on a combined business...

services.

UPC

As of 22/09/09, UPC has introduced "Fiber Power", offering internet with download speeds from 10 Mbit/s up to 150 Mbit/s, making UPC one of the fastest ISPs in Poland. The top tiers - 100/8 Mbit/s and 150/10 Mbit/s - are limited to selected locations: Warsaw, Gdańsk, Katowice and Kraków.

UPC Prices:

Maximum download/upload speed/(Mbps) Data rate units In telecommunications, bit rate or data transfer rate is the average number of bits, characters, or blocks per unit time passing between equipment in a data transmission system. This is typically measured in multiples of the unit bit per second or byte per second.- Avoiding confusion :To be as...	Data limit/GB Gigabyte The gigabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information storage. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units , therefore 1 gigabyte is...	Monthly price incl. VAT/PLN	Monthly price incl. VAT/EUR Euro The euro is the official currency of the eurozone: 17 of the 27 member states of the European Union. It is also the currency used by the Institutions of the European Union. The eurozone consists of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg,...
10 / 1	none	56	13,22
25 / 1.5	none	66	15,6
50 / 5	none	80	18,9
100 / 8	none	101	24
150 / 10	none	150	37,4

ASTER

ASTER provides triple play

Triple play (telecommunications)

to many cities in Poland, especially Warsaw and Kraków with speeds ranging from 1 Mbit/s to 120 Mbit/s. The internet speeds of their service are throttled by half everyday from 12PM to 12AM.

Recently, ASTER have upgraded their minimum service speed from 512 kbit/s to 1 Mbit/s and have increased the speed of their 8 Mbit/s service to 10 Mbit/s.

On March 9, 2010, ASTER introduced new improved internet speeds: 60 Mbit/s and 120 Mbit/s, and are offering business clients speeds up to 1Gbps+ .

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