Marconi will soon announce its strategy to increase presence on Polish market

market British telecoms systems provider Marconi Communications is planning to takeover a large part of the Polish telecoms equipment market and will soon announce its strategy. Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. (TPSA), Netia, mobile operators Era GSM and Plus GSM already use Marconi's equipment. "Analysts put demand of the Polish telecoms market at $1 billion to $4 billion," said Marconi Communications Polska deputy CEO Michael Willcocks. The company will no doubt face stiff competition from other global leaders in the telecoms market such as Nortel, Lucent Technologies, Alcatel and Siemens. So far Marconi has been selling its solutions through information systems integrators and wants to expand cooperation with its present customers. The company may also invest in some of the companies operating on the Polish market. Currently, Marconi is cooperating closely with Telekros from Swietochlowice and Warsaw-based ATM and has been present in Poland for a year. (Puls Biznesu, page 5)