PTK Centertel aims to increase subscriptions by 1 million

PTK Centertel, owner of mobile phone operator Idea, had 4.48 million s ubscribers in 2002, PTK's president Slawomir Skrodzki said at a press conference yesterday, adding that this year the operator intends to increase the figure by over 1 million. "Last year was closed with a very good f inancial result... we won over 500,000 subscribers more than we envisaged," said Skrodzki. To compare, at the end of 2002, Idea's competitors, Era and Plus, had 4.87 million and 4. 55 million subscribers respectively. According to Idea's estimates, mobile phone market penetration last year reached 36% against 25.9% in 2001. (www.onet.pl) A.Z.