Orange Polska

Telekomunikacja Polska was established in December 1991 as a joint stock company under the control of the State Treasury, following the split-up of the communist era state-owned PTT entity Polish Post, Telegraph and Telephone. On 1 January 1992, the company began operations under the name of 'TP SA'. The company changed its ownership structure in 1998 and began trading on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in 2000. In the same year, the Treasury sold a 35% stake in TPSA to a consortium of France Télécom and Kulczyk Holding, with the consortium increasing its stake by a further 12.5% in 2001.

On 21 December 2007, TP SA was fined PLN 75 million (approximately EUR 20.7 million) by the Office for Competition and Consumer Protection for discriminating against its competitors on the internet services market.

Full privatisation of the company was completed in May 2010.

In 2010 the company reported that they had almost 500,000 pay TV subscribers, with the number now being 695,000 (as of late 2012). The company currently serves approximately 5.6 million broadband customers.

In 2011, TP SA had a $430 million claim filed against them by GN Store Nord (GN), which owns 75% of DPTG, in the second phase of an arbitration trial. Bloomberg reported that, "DPTG won a 2.2 billion-krone award in September at an arbitration tribunal in Vienna. The tribunal said the company had improperly calculated what it owed DPTG for a fiber-optic transmission system the venture installed in 1991. "TP SA" owed payments based on data traffic over the network. The companies disagreed over how to measure the traffic and spent nine years in arbitration. The September award covered traffic from 1994 to 2004, and the new claim refers to 2004 to 2009. TPSA has not paid the first award and has filed a complaint about the arbitration, while GN has started enforcement proceedings in Poland and the Netherlands."

On 16 April 2012, Telekomunikacja Polska was renamed as Orange Polska, in line with France Télécom's international telecommunications branding.

Internet service

Orange Polska's ADSL service in Poland was called Neostrada. The service was widely available throughout the country and was one of the most heavily subscribed to in Poland. Since of February 2026, it is no longer possible to order the service.

Orange Polska operates one of the largest residential fibre Internet (FTTH) networks in the country, branded as Orange Światłowód (formerly Orange Supernova).

Mobile network

Orange Polska mobile was founded in December 1991 to operate an analogue (first-generation) network under the Centertel brand. The network used Nordic Mobile Telephone standard known as NMT450i - working on 450 MHz band with some improvements copied from NMT900.

In 1998, it launched Idea, Poland's third GSM network, operating on both the 900 and 1800-MHz bands from the beginning. Until 2001, when the network stopped registering new subscribers for analogue services, Idea was known as Idea Centertel. Idea's slogan was Łączy Cię z ludźmi ("Connects you with people").

In December 2025, it was announced that Orange Polska had entered into a preliminary agreement to acquire fibre-optic wholesaler Nexera jointly with the Dutch pension fund, APG through their joint venture, Światłowód Inwestycje. The transaction was valued at approximately €350 million and remained subject to customary regulatory approvals and closing conditions.