Player.pl service available in PKP Intercity trains!

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Starting on 13 April, a test service will be activated on selected PKP Intercity trains, which will give passengers access to specially selected video on demand offer, including hit films, popular TV series and cartoons in the player.pl service. The service is provided as part of an agreement between PKP Intercity and T-Mobile Poland to provide access to Internet and mobile entertainment aboard our trains.

Every user of a laptop, tablet or smartphone will be able to take advantage of our attractive offer of films, TV series, cartoons or games, made available in the special PKP Intercity Zone in the player.pl service. Videos will be available without advertisements and using the service will not use up your mobile data. Users will need to connect to the T-Mobile Hot Spot, go to player.pl or install the mobile application, sign up for an account and watch without limits. During the test period, the service will be free. Ultimately, the planned cost of 24 hours of access is 4.99 PLN. After the end of the trip the service will not be turned off, but its use will still be possible through the user’s own internet connection.

Player.pl in the PKP Intercity Zone will provide a wide range of video subjects, thanks to which every traveller will find something to their liking. TV series fans will find Odwróceni, Lekarze, Prawo Agaty, Da Vinci’s Demons or the second season of Gran Hotel, as well as up-to-date episodes of the newest TVN productions: Nie rób scen and Mąż czy nie mąż. Besides TV series, we offer popular film titles. Among them are The Illusionist with Jessica Biel and Edward Norton, The Ides of March with Ryan Gosling, The Cloud Atlas with Tom Hanks, Taxi 3 and 4, Coco Before Chanel with Audrey Tautou, or Woody Allen’s romantic comedy Midnight in Paris. Children will find a special cartoon offer, with titles like Shaun the Sheep, Peppa Pig, The Adventures of Chuck & Friends or My Little Pony.

The player.pl platform debuted on the market towards the end of August 2011. The service offered TV series and programmes known mainly from TVN channels. Currently, the library contains over 15,000 titles, including those produced exclusively for the service. 

Mobile versions of Player.pl are available for Android, iOS and Windows Phone, on Sony Playstation consoles, television sets from leading producers as well as the new generation television nc+ and T-Mobile, Netia and Toya subscribers.  

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“T-Mobile Hotspot” is a joint project of PKP Intercity and T-Mobile Poland, in which an Internet connection is provided to travellers aboard Intercity trains free of charge. The Service is available in almost 300 carriages in Express Intercity trains as well as selected international trains. Since July 2014, nearly 350,000 unique devices have connected to the service. In April of 2015, users establish over 5,500 sessions daily, lasting approximately 67 minutes.

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