PTK Centertel posts healthy profits after big boost to customer base

Operator of the Idea mobile phone network, PTK Centertel has ended the first six months of this year with a net profit of zł.260 million on revenues of zł.2.665 billion. "We will not be able to double this result by year's end as the second half of the year always means an increase in market activities connected with higher spending on advertisements. But the annual profit will be higher," said the company's chief finance officer Jacek Murawski. According to analysts the net profit for 2004 will amount to around zł.350 million. Idea increased its customer base by 388,000 between January and June, making a total of 6.1 million users. PTK Centertel currently controls 34% of the postpaid segment of the mobile phone market. (Puls Biznesu, p. 7) A.K.