Plus (formerly Plus GSM) is the

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Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...

mobile phone A mobile phone or cell phone is a portable telephone that allows users to make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while moving within a designated telephone service area, unlike fixed-location phones ( landline phones). This rad ...

network operator, Polkomtel Sp. z o.o. The company is entirely owned by Cyfrowy Polsat S.A. and is part of Grupa Polsat Plus. It operates

GSM The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a family of standards to describe the protocols for second-generation (2G) digital cellular networks, as used by mobile devices such as mobile phones and Mobile broadband modem, mobile broadba ...

(900/1800 MHz),

UMTS The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is a 3G mobile cellular system for networks based on the GSM standard. UMTS uses Wideband Code Division Multiple Access, wideband code-division multiple access (W-CDMA) radio access technolog ...

LTE LTE may refer to: Science and technology * LTE (telecommunication) (Long-Term Evolution), a mobile telephony standard ** LTE Advanced, an enhancement ** LTE Advanced Pro, a further enhancement * Compaq LTE, a line of laptop computers * Leukotrie ...

5G NR 5G NR (5G New Radio) is a radio access technology (RAT) developed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) for the 5G (fifth generation) mobile network. It was designed to be the global standard for the air interface of 5G networks. It is ...

(2600 MHz TDD) and

WLAN A wireless LAN (WLAN) is a wireless computer network that links two or more devices using wireless communication to form a local area network (LAN) within a limited area such as a home, school, computer laboratory, campus, or office buildin ...

networks in Poland. It was founded in 1995. From 1998 until 2002, Polkomtel used the Italian animated short cartoon '' La Linea'' to promote its Simplus prepaid service. From 13 May 2011, all of Polkomtel prepaid services are now called Plus na Kartę. At the end of September 2021, Plus had 13.045 million active SIM cards, including 2.486 million (19%) using the prepaid system. In July 2011,

Zygmunt Solorz-Żak Zygmunt Solorz (; born Zygmunt Józef Krok, August 4, 1956 in Radom) is a Polish businessman and a media tycoon known for launching Polsat, one of the largest private television channels in the country. As of 2024, he is the fifth richest perso ...

agreed to buy Polkomtel SA for 15.1 billion PLN ($5.5 billion).Solorz-Zak Buys Polkomtel for $5.5 Billion in Record Polish Deal

External links

* https://www.plus.pl/news/aboutcompany Polkomtel Sp. z o.o. Corporate Website

References

Mobile phone companies of Poland Companies based in Warsaw Telecommunications companies established in 1995 Polish brands {{wireless-stub