What’s Up Wholesale? Polish carriers' market overview 2025

The main theme of the 5th edition of the report is the new regulatory requirements and their impact on telecommunications companies in the SME sector. We discuss, among other things, the results of a survey involving nearly 200 operators.

The findings indicate that while small and medium operators appreciate the increasing openness of the public sector to consultations with the industry, they sometimes struggle to see the purpose of the legislative changes being introduced and have difficulties interpreting them. They primarily face high costs associated with adapting to the new requirements. One in five companies allocated more than 20,000 PLN to comply with the new regulations. This represents a significant burden for small and medium telecommunications entrepreneurs, who often had to rely on paid legal and IT services.

Detailed survey results, as well as practical guidance on the introduced legislation, voices from representatives of economic chambers and operators, and descriptions of modern telecommunications tools and solutions can be found in the report „What’s Up Wholesale?”.

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Table of content:

Telecommunications Law

  • A time of regulatory challenges

  • Problems of Polish (micro, small, medium) telecommunications entrepreneur

  • Telecoms in the new National Cybersecurity System (KSC)

  • Telecommunications also took up the gauntlet thrown down by the Prime Minister

  • From legislative theory to market practice. CLI spoofing prevention

  • Chinese Walls in orange color

Resilience of the network

  • Network resilience: disinformation in telecommunications

  • Network resilience: flood

  • Network resilience: climate

  • Network resilience: military threats

Through the eyes of market leaders

  • Valuable infrastructure

  • Unchanging regulations and a changing market – wholesale prospects and challenges

  • The fiber-optic market in Poland has matured and still has large potential

  • Telecommunications infrastructure market development: perspective of Światłowód Inwestycje

Technology and communication

  • Trends in optical networks and their role in market evolution

  • Fiber optic sensor systems – new possibilities and opportunities for network operators

  • „Copper Switch Off” or decommissioning of copper networks

  • RCS, are you a cure for the entire evil?

  • How to build a business advantage when price competition is not possible? Case study