Orange Poland has announced the start of a review to look at options for potential partnerships on further fibre roll-out. The operator is seeking investors to participate in a joint venture FiberCo.
Given the major market potential and interest in FTTH rollout in Poland, Orange Poland launched the review to consider its options. The main characteristics of the plan are creating a FiberCo vehicle to roll out an FTTH access network to about 1.7 million households, focused predominantly on areas without broadband infrastructure; contribution by Orange Poland of about 0.6 million of its existing FTTH footprint (assumed to include wholesale access for about 0.15 million clients) to the FiberCo, which would provide open access to Orange and other operators; using Orange Poland as FiberCo’s main industrial partner for network roll-out, delivery, maintenance and connectivity; and a sale by Orange Poland of a co-controlling stake of the FiberCo to an investor.
Orange Polska would like to point that these are preliminary project parametres, which may evolve during the process.
