International Telecommunication Union

Poland

Cost, tariff models and tariff rebalancing 2007

Tariff Rebalancing of fixed telephony services implemented

Type of costs on which the cost model is based

	Traditional Retail services	Traditional Wholesale services
Historical costs
Current costs
Other

Cost allocation methodology

	Traditional Retail services	Traditional Wholesale services
Fully Distributed Costs (FDC)
Long-Run Incremental Costs (LRIC)
Other

Approach applied

Interconnection issues 2007

Interconnection charging principle adopted

Approach used to regulate interconnection prices ()

Telecommunication services

Fixed communications

With price control

Without price control

Mobile communications

With price control

Without price control

Broadcasting services

With price control

Without price control

Wholesale telecommunication services subject to price control

With price control

Without price control

The prices of regulated services are determined using

	Traditional Retail services	Traditional Wholesale services
Price ceiling set by the State
Cost orientation (using cost models)
Benchamrking of tariffs
Retail minus approach
Rate of return regulation
Price cap
Other

Next-Generation Networks (NGN) 2007

Status of NGN development

Feasibility study
Planning
Introduction
Implementation
No plans to introduce an NGN system in a short run
Other

	Voice Service	Data Service
Regulatory arrangements subject to universal service obligations
Regulatory interconnection arrangements with networks using switching circuits
Banning of services based on IP
No regulatory arrangements defined at present
Other