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Crosby today announced that all of its systems are ready for use with the new PayForIT
mobile payment framework.
PayForIT is a joint initiative – involving all 5 UK networks – aimed at
creating an easy and reliable means for mobile phone users to purchase goods and
services over the mobile internet.
Crosby Communications is delighted to announce its 10th anniversary.
Founded a decade ago as a specialist communications solutions provider, Crosby continues to
excel in the delivery of innovative, tailored communications systems for clients throughout
the UK.
For the third year in succession, Crosby has sponsored the Sefton Triathlon, a sports event
run by a local charity in Crosby, Liverpool.
Triathlon is a modern 'lifestyle' sport that can be enjoyed by people of almost any
age; the only requirements are that you can run, swim, and ride a bike.
Crosby today announced that, within 12 months, the company will have reached full carbon
neutrality.
Through the introduction of techniques such as virtualisation and consolidation, and by using
more efficient equipment and adopting smarter working practices, Crosby aims to have the first
carbon neutral data centre in the UK.
Crosby Communications, a leading provider of converged communications and I.T. solutions,
today announced that the company's quality management system (QMS) has been awarded
ISO 9001:2000 accreditation for Sales and Distribution of Digital Media. This recognition
follows audits by the World Certification Services in 2007.
Following the success of both its national and Liverpool–based Directory Enquiries
services, Crosby has today announced a brand new addition to its 118 family.
118 501 is a new international Directory Enquiries service, offering access to phone
numbers from over 24 countries around the world.
Following its recent investigation into premium rate audience participation services, phone
watchdog ICSTIS has published a set of new regulations for TV Quiz shows, in an attempt to
restore viewer confidence. These measures will come into effect on Wednesday 2nd May 2007.
Crosby announced today that its Television Audience Participation System (TAPS) has already
been upgraded in accordance with the new ICSTIS standards, and now enables TV companies to
automatically generate and display real–time information and statistics relating to a
caller's chances of getting through to any stage of a competition.
Broadcasting companies have recently come under intense scrutiny with regard to their use of
premium rate phone lines on some of their most popular programmes, causing the integrity of
current audience participation systems to be brought into question.
A high-profile investigation by phone watchdog ICSTIS into the practices of a number of
leading television companies has revealed numerous incidents of uncounted phone and text
votes, callers being charged for call completion after lines have been closed, and even
instances of viewers being urged to enter competitions after the winners had already been
decided.
Liverpool based communications firm Crosby Communications has today announced record annual
profits for 2006.
The results reflect a lucrative fourth quarter, which saw the company's earnings rise by 32%.
 Today
it was announced that Crosby Communications has acquired Mc
Kay Brown I.T Systems Of Manchester.
Matt Wilson, Managing Director of Crosby Said, Mc Kay brown
brings to the table a wealth of I.T Experience and an existing
customer base.
One year today, Crosby committed to the install of a green
power generating system for its state of the art data centre
in Southport, UK.
 Crosby
has sponsored the Sefton Triathlon, run by a local charity in
Crosby, Liverpool. Crosby has re-designed their website bringing
their ‘online presence’ up to date with new photos
and results.
 Crosby
today have announced that it has opened its city centre office,
in the heart of Liverpool, which was awarded capital of culture
status for 2008.
 Crosby
announced today that they helped Stan Boardman’s World
Cup song get into a top 20 chart position this week.
 Crosby
announced today that they have released the official website
for Merseyside comedian legend, Stan Boardman!
 Crosby
announced today that it has re-launched it’s community
website for Crosby in Liverpool. The site that is available
at the address www.crosbycam.co.uk has been totally transformed.
 Crosby
announced today that is has committed to purchasing a number
of Blade Servers within its data centre.
Matt Wilson M.D., said, our data centre is now 3 years old,
and due to the change in technology once again, we have committed
to purchasing a number of Blade servers that will reduce both
power, space and cooling requirements, plus directly replace
a number of servers now approaching 3 years old.
 Crosby
announced today that it has appointed Mike Bell as Media Director
of Crosby.
Matt Wilson, Director of Crosby said, Mike brings a lot to
the table from the media sector, with experience from Granada
Television, Mersey Television who used to produce Brookside
and are still producing Hollyoaks, to the BBC.
 Crosby
today, announced that it is running a Santa Letter line for
Jospice to aid with donations to the charity, and also provide
a service to local people.
 Today
Crosby celebrated 6 years in business as a limited
company.
Crosby started as a home based business back in 1997 and has
grown rapidly into a multi million pound organisation within
the last 6 years, becoming a pioneer in ringtones in 2002, it
has rapidly expanded into other communications areas, developing
communications solutions for companies based world wide.
 Crosby
Herald organise the Crosby Summer Fun run every summer for local
people and all monies raised via sponsership are donated to
local charities such as Jospice and the Marina Dalglish Appeal.
 Matt
Wilson, Managing Director says, Crosby are moving into a new
head office in Liverpool due to expansion of the business. We've
outgrown our 2000 square foot in Burlington House where we have
been based for the last 3 years. The decision was made to move
to new offices with more space and better parking facilities.
 Today,
Crosby have committed to self power generation which is to be
installed in its multi-million pound data centre over the coming
months.
 Following
on from its early press release on the 4th of April, Crosby have announced today that it will be extending
its previous offer to donate 50% of its profits to Jospice international
until 2006.
 Crosby
had sponsored this years Liverpool Film Festival which runs
from 23rd to the 25th of September 2005.
Matt Wilson, Managing Director said, we like to get involved
with local businesses and organisations and the Liverpool Film
Festival provides great opportunities for emerging filmmakers
in the Liverpool area. As Crosby work in the media arena, we
believe it is a great opportunity to get involved and sponsor
the festival.
 Crosby has sponsored the Sefton Triathlon, operated
by a local charity in Crosby, Liverpool. Crosby have provided
a website design and hosting as part of the sponsorship.
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Crosby today announced it's accreditation as an 'Investor
in People'.
Crosby has met the criteria for the Investor in People
Award, fulfilling the key principle of commitment to the
continued and measured development and training of staff.
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 Crosby have announced today that, they have teamed up
Jospice International based in Thornton, Liverpool to donate
50% of the profits from Crosby directory enquiry
service over the next 3 months.
 Broadsystem
is the UK's leading provider of outsourced marketing communications.
They provide data-driven customer contact services and focus
on three areas of expertise: customer relationship management,
contact centre services and media services.
 Crosby
were approached by Victim Support for a proposed solution for
the new sunrise appeal due to begin Feb 16th. The proposed idea
was to allow donations by text message, so anyone, anywhere
could make a donation by simply texting into an advertised telephone
number and the money raised would go towards the sunrise appeal.
 Gas
Logic the Certification Gas Training Centre, approached Crosby
for an integrated voice and fax solution that would allow completed
certification forms and details to be collected automatically
by fax. The solution would also allow contact via a national
rate number in case some applications do not have a fax machine.
 Crosby
worked with Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool to setup a donation
by text message system. The service which was advertised both
in the hospital and on 107.6 Juice FM over the Christmas period
received a substantial amount of donations, all at £3 each.
 Every
year Claire house ask for donations to be given out at the Father
Christmas Grottos. This year the event is being held in Gordale.
Claire House decided that the ideal donations would be selection
boxes as they would be easy to give out and always sell well.
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Crosby schoolboy has been left devastated after his prize mountain
bike was stolen just 20 days after he won it.
In
2003 Oftel deregulated the Directory Enquiries service, a market
previously operated only by BT, known to everyone as 192. Many
companies were then rapidly set up in order to compete with
BT.
 To
help the Liverpool based, ever-expanding Commercial Radio Station,
107.6 Juice FM, manage their studio telephone calls efficiently,
Crosby have supplied an innovative, low-cost service using their
state of the art call handling platform.
 Crosby today announced that they were making a unique
offer to support local businesses in assisting them to establish
a presence on the Internet and to make the maximum cost-effective
use of the medium.
 Crosby
today announced that it has completed its connection into the
Hutchinson 3G UK network. This now compliments its existing
4 connections into Vodafone, 02, Orange and T-Mobile.
 Crosby
today announced that it has completed a deal with Eurocall Limited,
the largest, independent, business telecommunications company
in the UK with over 35,000 customers nationwide.
 Crosby
signed a deal with Mobile Crazy TV that was launched today on
channel 691 of Sky Digital to provide mobile content, a content
delivery platform, real time on-line statistics, premium rate
billing for text and voice services.
 Crosby
has signed contracts to work with Telco Games, the leading games
industry distributor to provide a delivery platform and statistical
package.
Crosby was asked by Telco Games to build a custom delivery
platform to allow their content to be delivered to customers
phones for Java Games and other mobile content.
The platform installed in Crosby's data centre is linked with
Crosby's existing statistical package to produce real-time
statistical data for game downloads, popularity and a complete
billing system in order to demonstrate to clients the ability
to bill to a mobile telephone and have reliable statistics.
The Directors of Crosby were invited onto the Northwest Radio
Station Magic1548 live on air for a late night
phone in. Matthew and Steven Wilson gave advice to callers regarding
network security, viruses and the damages that can be caused
to businesses and individuals from them.
 In
relation to the last press release on the multi million pound
contract Crosby won with Intelliplus, Matthew and Steven Wilson
were invited onto EMAP's Radio City in Liverpool for a 10 minute
interview on the press release and what it will bring to Liverpool.
 Liverpool
based Crosby has won a Multi million
pound contract to supply London based telecom's company Intelliplus
PLC with software and mobile related services. Crosby who tendered
for this business along with other southern based but larger
businesses were awarded the contract on Friday 25th July 2003.
Crosby being at the forefront of technology have once again
been the first to bring out a new product only available through
Crosby. Handset delivery reports are now available from all
4 networks. Content providers and service providers alike
can now increase product throughput, profits, more happy customers
and improved overall efficiently in their systems because
of this new facility.
Crosby announced today that they can fully support MT reverse
billed premium rate to users handsets across all of the 4
UK networks. Matthew Wilson MD of Crosby explained "MT
billing allows content providers to choose not to bill the
customer until the content is delivered, this saves time and
money for the content/service provider but also protects the
consumer from being billed for mistakes that could be made
on their account, "I'm pleased to announce that Crosby
is the first provider in the UK to offer this service across
the 4 networks."
Crosby have increased their MMS capabilities massively by
adding an MMSC to their network today. Crosby have created
their own MMSC that operates within their network to deliver
pictures, ringtones, photos, and other media directly to mobile
handsets. Steven Wilson TD of Crosby says "There has
been a lot of pressure on the operators from service providers
over the last 12 months to get MMS working, however we still
don't see any signs of them opening up their networks to create
an MMSC, so simply we built one ourselves".
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