TOYA is a Polish

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provider with headquarters in

Łódź Łódź, also rendered in English as Lodz, is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located approximately south-west of Warsaw. The city's coat of arms is an example of canti ...

. The company's network covers eight cities – Łódź,

Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 ...

Mysłowice Mysłowice ( szl, Myslowicy; german: Myslowitz) is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, near Katowice. The population of the city is 74,085. It is located in the south district of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union in the Silesian Highlan ...

Kutno Kutno is a city located in central Poland with 42,704 inhabitants (2021) and an area of . Situated in the Łódź Voivodeship since 1999, previously it was part of Płock Voivodeship (1975–1998) and it is now the capital of Kutno County. Dur ...

Przemyśl Przemyśl (; yi, פשעמישל, Pshemishl; uk, Перемишль, Peremyshl; german: Premissel) is a city in southeastern Poland with 58,721 inhabitants, as of December 2021. In 1999, it became part of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship; it was pr ...

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Pisz Pisz (pronounced , previously also ''Jańsbork'', german: Johannisburg) is a historic town in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in northern Poland, with a population of 19,466 (2016). It is the seat of Pisz County. Pisz is situated at the juncti ...

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Pabianice Pabianice is a city in central Poland with 63,023 inhabitants (2021). Situated in the Łódź Voivodeship, it is the capital of Pabianice County. It lies about southwest of Łódź and belongs to the metropolitan area of that city. It is the ...

. TOYA products and services are also available in thirteen partner networks of other operators across 25 locations. Apart from delivering cable and

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, the company runs several media and cultural projects.

History and development

The limited company was founded in 1991 in

by Witold Krawczyk and Jacek Kobierzycki. It was one of the first

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companies permitted to offer Internet services – as early as 1999; the following year it had 1000 subscribers. In 2004 the service was extended to include subscribers in

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. By early 2006, TOYA's network in the eight cities covered over 80% of the area of each city. In October 2008, TOYA took over Pol-Net – a cable TV company from Piotrków Trybunalski; in 2017 it acquired the Kraków-based T-MONT. According to the Polish Chamber for Electronic Communication (PIKE), the number of TOYA's subscribers in March 2010 was approximately 160,000 – the company came fourth on the list of the largest cable network operators in Poland. The 2017 PIKE statistics position TOYA in fifth place, with 175,000 subscribers in July. Additionally, the company provides access to its services to around 90,000 subscribers of partner networks. TOYA was the first Polish cable TV provider to offer

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(Internet, telephone, and TV) model packages to its customers.

Products and services

Television

The company delivers over 250

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s both via analog TV and its own High Definition digital platform.

Internet

TOYA delivers

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connections based on the

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technology. The company offers its customers a variety of Internet packages of varying speeds (from 6 to 250 Mbit/s). Internet signal is transmitted through

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cable modems. According to a ranking by Speedtest.pl, in 2017 TOYA offered the fastest cable broadband Internet in Poland.

VoIP

TOYA provides

telephony.

Mobile services

TOYA offers mobile phone and

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connections via the PLAY network.

Toya Group

TV TOYA

TOYA Studios

TOYA Studios are a group of recording, production and

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studios for both audio and film. The studios are located at Łąkowa 29 in

and previously belonged to the Łódź Feature Film Studios, which operated between 1945 and 1998 and produced a number of award-winning postwar pictures directed by

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and many others. The studio complex has been revitalized and now consists of sixteen studio and sound edit suites and two large halls which can accommodate up to 1200 and up to 2500 people. The studios deliver a few hundred hours of new audio for films and other productions every month, and have produced sound for over two hundred contemporary feature films.

Wytwórnia Club

Wytwórnia Club belongs to the Toya Group and is one of the largest, most active and progressive music and arts venues in Łódź. The club runs a regular programme of around 100 events per year, including music concerts, festivals, film screenings, theatrical performances and art exhibitions. Artists who performed at Wytwórnia include

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References

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