Case Name :      Privatizing Poland’s Telecom Industry: Opportunities and Challenges in the New Economy and e-Business (B)

Authors :           David W. Conklin, Danielle Cadieux

Source :             Ivey Publishing

Case ID :            908M01

Discipline :        Business & Government Relations

Case Length :    04 pages

Solution Sample availability : YES

Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)

This case is a follow up to Privatizing Poland’s Telecom Industry: Opportunities and Challenges in the New Economy and e-business (A), Ivey product 9B00M023 and contains information in regard to Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. (TPSA) over the period of 2000-2008. Students will be interested to see what actually happened related to the issues raised in the (A) case. Many will have expected that France Telecom moved quickly to consolidate its control over TPSA. However, few will have expected that TPSA was able to cut their workforce in half so quickly and achieve a substantial profit increase by 2004. Yet, France Telecom was blocked by the slow development of e-business in Poland, and so many of the expectations in regard to revenue from value-added activities had still failed to materialize by 2008. A focus for discussion of the (B) case concerns the likely regulatory changes in Poland’s telecom sector. Students will be interested in providing advice to Poland’s new parliamentary leaders regarding the regulatory reforms they would recommend. Students can also debate whether the European Union (EU) will be able to impose uniform regulations throughout the EU that can stimulate the growth of new competitors. Their recommendations for a political strategy for France Telecom and TPSA should also generate debate.

Case Name :      Privatizing Poland’s Telecom Industry: Opportunities and Challenges in the New Economy and e-Business

Authors :           David W. Conklin, Marius Siwak

Source :             Ivey Publishing

Case ID :            900M23

Discipline :        Business & Government Relations

Case Length :    20 pages

Solution Sample availability : YES

Plagiarism : NO (100% Original work)

As it entered the 21st century, the Polish government faced the dilemma of how to develop an optimal telecom structure and related services. For decades, the government owned and operated a national telecom monopoly; but in the late 1990s, it gradually allowed the entry of some competitors, many of whom brought new technologies. The government had undertaken a major privatization program, and it faced the question of whether, and how, it should privatize; yet privatization would have to be accompanied by ongoing regulation to ensure that managerial decisions were made in the interests of the nation as a whole. This challenge of continual government intervention could reduce the attractiveness of acquiring the government-owned agency, in spite of its market dominance.