Iliad Group`s Play and InfraVia Capital Partners have teamed as much as offer 6 million Polish families with fibre-optic net in a brand new open community get entry to version. Under the phrases of a initial settlement among the 2 parties, InfraVia Capital Partners will acquire, for PLN1.775 billion (€379 million), a 50% stake in a subsidiary of the Play Group, running beneathneath the call FiberForce. By the cease of 2022, the Play Group plans to switch the broadband infrastructure of UPC Polska (HFC and FTTx), overlaying over 3.7 million families, to FiberForce.
Additionally, FiberForce has targets to construct over 2 million extra fibre optic connections. The agency will make its community infrastructure to be had to different telecommunications operators (together with Play and UPC) in an open and non-discriminatory get entry to version as a way to maximise using the built infrastructure with the aid of using consumers.
Commenting at the improvement, Jean Marc Harion, president of Play and UPC, said: “This partnership is any other milestone in strengthening our function as a national chief in infrastructure, permitting tens of thousands and thousands of latest clients in Poland to apply super-speedy net. Thanks to the wholesale open get entry to version, we need to set new requirements for broadband get entry to and make sure freedom of desire for all. We wish that this new funding will assist considerably lessen the virtual hole and make sure the improvement of innovation for the gain of our clients, society and the economy”.
Vincent Levita, president and founding father of InfraVia, added: “We are very thrilled that we are able to expand our cooperation with the iliad Group via a joint task with the Play Group. This will allow us to construct a key asset on this growing region collectively with a main associate at the Polish market”.
Play Group is a main company of convergent fixed-line net, virtual TV and cellular offerings beneathneath the Play and UPC manufacturers in Poland, even as InfraVia Capital Partners is a French personal fairness agency specialising in infrastructure and generation investments. Broadband TV News notes that iliad Group and InfraVia Capital Partners already paintings collectively in France, having entered right into a partnership in February 2020 to boost up the rollout of FFTH in medium and low-density elements of the country.
