Development of DataStar network to cost $100 million

Telecommunications company Crowley Data Poland plans to spend $30 million this year on the expansion of its DataStar broadband wireless network. The investment is part of a $100 million two-year program targeting 90% of businesses and institutions across Poland. This year the company plans to add Wroclaw to the existing DataStar network, and to increase the number of its clients in Poland from 200 to over 500. The network, which already covers Warsaw, Poznan, the Gdansk, Gdynia and Sopot conurbation, Upper Silesia and Krakow, will be expanded to take in Szczecin and Lodz by 2002. This year Crowley Data Poland, whose majority shareholder is Crowley Data Systems of the US, plans to earn revenue of zl.14.8 million. It expects to see a full return on its DataStar investment within the next seven years. (Prawo i Gospodarka, p. 2, Puls Biznesu, p. 7) P.W.