Crowley calls on SMEs

Crowley Data Poland (CDP), a provider of data and telecommunication services, has launched a new MVNO mobile telephone service. The Crowley TeleMobile brand targets business clients, mainly SMEs with the potential for 20 or more SIM cards. At the beginning, CDP intends to market the service to its existing customer base.

Work on the service began last year when Crowley signed a contract with mobile virtual network enabler MNI. The company said in a presentation that around 45,000 work hours and 14,400 cups of coffee were consumed in the process of developing the product.

Crowley has also announced its results for the 2007-2008 financial year. The firm earned revenues of zł.64 million and had an EBITDA of zł.10.7 million, marking respective y/y increases of 20 percent and 24 percent. It had 5,216 clients at the end of its financial year, compared with 4,174 a year earlier.

The firm's bottom line was helped by its fixed-line telephony activity. "It is one of the drivers of our growth and it looks like this will continue in the future," said Dariusz Terlecki, a member of the board and head of the sales department.

According to CDP's data, the firm recorded stronger revenue growth over the 2005-2007 period than most of its competitors. It saw revenue growth of 14.3 percent over that period, a figure bested only by Tele2, which recorded 18.6-percent growth. Much of these two firms' improvement seems to have come at the expense of incumbent operator TP, whose revenues dropped by 7.6 percent over the period.