The new government in Poland wants to privatise a quarter of its telecommunications by the year 2000, more than doubling the number of telephones, Communications Minister Krzysztof Kilian said: the aim is to increase the number of telephones to 27 per 100 inhabitants from 12 at present, and it will organise tenders for Polish and foreign investors to build local and national telephone networks; the remaining 75% of the market would be operated by Telekomunikacja Polska SA, the current state-owned phone monopoly; that too will be restructured and privatised one day but we don’t want to do it too rapidly because it is a profitable and well operating firm, he said.
