Crowley Data to invest $100 mln in broadband network

Over the next two years Crowley Data Poland intends to invest up to $100 million in the construction of wireless broadband network Data Star. The project is aimed at reaching around 90% of business and institutional clients in Poland. "Using wireless transmission provides the customer with several services such as fast access to the internet and fast data transmission," said managing director of Crowley Data Poland Slawomir Palczewski. Additionally, Data Star network will offer frame relay services, private virtual networks as well as internet roaming, video-conferencing systems and services connected with network security of subscribers. Crowley Data Poland was set up in 1998 by a group of Polish and American business people and scientists. Currently it operates in Poznan, Trojmiasto and Silesia. (Prawo i Gospodarka, page 4)