Play and EXATEL have signed an agreement regarding comprehensive telecommunications services for business and the public sector.

June 1, 2023
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Press release

Play and EXATEL’s partnership is a combination of expertise, innovative cloud and security solutions, modern infrastructure, and mobile services. It will result in the highest quality of telecommunications services provided for corporate customers and public institutions in Poland.

Play Group, the leader of telecommunications market, with its modern mobile infrastructure of over 10,800 base stations and a 16,000 km optical fibre fixed line, provides telecommunications services for the B2B market as well. Their services include: comprehensive cloud solutions (Cloud2B), mobile and integrated communications, access to the Internet and digital devices, network projects development (among others: building and maintenance of optical fibre networks for business customers) and also comprehensive security services. These allow for a dynamic business development.

EXATEL is a Polish telecommunications operator and the provider of ICTcybersecurity  and satellite communications. The company has over 22,000 km of optical fibre network and it provides data transmission in all Polish commercial banks and companies in the power generation sector. EXATEL has also designed and built communications network for the government administration. As part of the R&D proprietary solutions, such as the Polish anti-DDoS TAMA, TAMAPro7, SDNbox and SDNcore have been developed.

 

Play offers comprehensive business services based on the most innovative telecommunications infrastructure, advanced and secure cloud/ICT solutions, and all of this is supported by our market-renowned expertise. We are a partner who can help polish companies to accelerate their development and improve their responses to customers’ needs even more. I believe that our cooperation with EXATEL will help provide telecommunications solutions of the highest level of customisation to an even greater number of business customers and public institutions said Jean Marc Harion, president of Play.

 

Since EXATEL became a state-owned company in 2017, we have been building the competencies of a strategic network operator for defence, homeland security and critical infrastructure. We have developed our optical fibre network, built a cybersecurity team, have our own satellite teleport, R&D team and our own SDN telecommunications technologies. Today, thanks to our strategic partnership with Play, based on its state-of-the-art infrastructure, we will be able to rapidly expand our entire range of mobile services. EXATEL and Play complement each other very well in terms of product portfolio and experience. We will use the synergy of EXATEL’s backbone and network with Play’s access network to jointly offer comprehensive telecommunications services to our customers. Together, we can fight for the leadership position in telecommunications services for B2B in the public sector of Poland – said Nikodem Bończa Tomaszewski, president of EXATEL.