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"Netia expands its services portfolio to business customers with the launch of ""Netia Frame Relay"" data transmission service"
Warsaw, Poland - September 18, 2001 - Netia Holdings (NASDAQ: NTIA, WSE: NET), Poland's largest alternative provider of fixed-line telecommunications services, today announced the launch of the "Netia Frame Relay" data transmission service, with a view to extend and supplement its present services available to business customers.
The newly launched service, based on ATM network, enables the multi-location clients to establish the dedicated private data transmission networks (VPNs - Virtual Private Networks), with a possibility to adjust parameters of the transmission to every client's needs. Netia Frame Relay offers capacity of transmission from 64 kbits/s to 2 Mbit/s, with the committed information rate up to 1 Mbit/s.
Stefan Albertsson, Marketing Director of Netia, commented: "With the introduction of Netia's data transmission product we are enhancing our portfolio of services addressed to business customers. We intend to develop and strengthen the provision of selective data services going forward in order to support the needs of Netia's business customers even further."
NETIA HOLDINGS is the largest alternative fixed-line telecommunications operator in Poland. Netia has 24 licenses for local telecommunications services in territories, covering some 15 million people or approximately 40% of the Polish population, which include the most economically advanced parts of the country. The Company's existing local telephone license territories cover six of the country's ten largest urban areas including Warsaw, Krakow, Poznan, Gdansk, Lublin and Katowice. In August 2001, Netia launched its domestic long distance services based on indirect access. Netia has also secured the benefit of a nationwide data and IP license to provide data transmission and Internet-based services.