cable intnernet is but a one big laugh. Although there's a local subsidiary of UPC (approx. 970K video subs) and plans to deploy chello service - you can count broadband homes by mere thousands (I mean cable, DSL, SDI - Ericsson based solution). It's hoped to change next year - when new telecom bill comes to life. Good example: there are approx. 800K homes in Warsaw, Poland's capital. There are approx 600-650K cable HP and 370K video subs. Less than 1K can take advantage of cable interrnet.
Piotr Walicki
Very much like here (I mean in Poland). Although we have a pretty good Intelectual Propoerty law an a new Telecommunications Act (coming to life 1st of Jan. 2001) that describes mp3 andl like legal status, record industry does not seem to care. They have to cope with what they say is the real issue - pirated cd's. Both international and local stuff is available this way often days before official release, also on the net. As elsewhere, Napster has been covered widely by media, although I haven't read anything with local focus (mostly it was the case with RIA and musicians, so our press simply followed international news). Officially Napster's media relations does not give details about their users counted by country of origin, still they have such data. So nobody here is to tell, how many Poles use it. I have seen a research showing that downloading files is very popular (about twice as much as it is in the UK). Even given lower penetration and usage, higher access costs (Poland coems just short of Japan, where accessing the net proves to be most expensive in the world) and poor infrastructure (no. of phone lines, dial-up as domminant access mode etc., Napster and like services are very popular. 8 out 10 people I know using internet have them installed.
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cable intnernet is but a one big laugh. Although there's a local subsidiary of UPC (approx. 970K video subs) and plans to deploy chello service - you can count broadband homes by mere thousands (I mean cable, DSL, SDI - Ericsson based solution). It's hoped to change next year - when new telecom bill comes to life. Good example: there are approx. 800K homes in Warsaw, Poland's capital. There are approx 600-650K cable HP and 370K video subs. Less than 1K can take advantage of cable interrnet. Piotr Walicki
Very much like here (I mean in Poland). Although we have a pretty good Intelectual Propoerty law an a new Telecommunications Act (coming to life 1st of Jan. 2001) that describes mp3 andl like legal status, record industry does not seem to care. They have to cope with what they say is the real issue - pirated cd's. Both international and local stuff is available this way often days before official release, also on the net. As elsewhere, Napster has been covered widely by media, although I haven't read anything with local focus (mostly it was the case with RIA and musicians, so our press simply followed international news). Officially Napster's media relations does not give details about their users counted by country of origin, still they have such data. So nobody here is to tell, how many Poles use it. I have seen a research showing that downloading files is very popular (about twice as much as it is in the UK). Even given lower penetration and usage, higher access costs (Poland coems just short of Japan, where accessing the net proves to be most expensive in the world) and poor infrastructure (no. of phone lines, dial-up as domminant access mode etc., Napster and like services are very popular. 8 out 10 people I know using internet have them installed.