The most popular ADSL services for home users in Poland are Neostrada provided by TPSA and Net24 provided by Netia. 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.
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ADSL service is offered by Neostrada.
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.
ADSL service called Net24, provided by TP's main competitor Netia. The service can be installed on ISDN lines.
Netia also offers ADSL (BiznesNet24) and SDSL (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.
ADSL service called Multimo, provided by GTS Energis for TP customers via BitStream Access.
ADSL service called DialNET DSL, provided by Dialog.
Cable providers such as UPC, Multimedia, Vectra and ASTER offer triple play services.
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 limit/GB | Monthly price incl. VAT/PLN | Monthly price incl. VAT/EUR |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 provides triple play 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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