Orange Polska

Orange Polska (formerly Telekomunikacja Polska) is a Polish telecommunications provider established in December 1991. It is a public company traded on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, with a controlling stake owned by Orange S.A., which controls over 50%. It operates public telephones, ISDN, GSM 900/1800 network (+ 3G , 4G  and 5G ), ADSL, IDSL, fibre Internet,  ATM and Inmarsat.

 History 
Telekomunikacja Polska was started in December 1991 as a joint stock company under the control of the State Treasury, following the split-up of the communist era state-owned Polska Poczta, Telegraf i Telefon. On 1 January 1992, the company began operations under the name of 'TP SA'. The company changed its ownership structure in 1998 and began trading on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in 2000. In the same year, the Treasury sold a 35% stake in TPSA to a consortium of France Télécom and Kulczyk Holding, with the consortium increasing its stake by a further 12.5% in 2001.
On 21 December 2007, TP SA was fined PLN 75 million (approximately EUR 20.7 million) by the  for discriminating against its competitors on the internet services market.

It was fully  privatised in May 2010.

References

Category:Companies of Poland
Category:Telephone companies
Category:1991 establishments in Poland