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Reaching the end of his Electrical Engineering apprenticeship, Matthew Wilson (aged 18)
registers Crosby as a sole proprietorship.
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Crosby installs its first telephone system and forms a partnership with Opal Telecom to
develop least cost routing of calls services, which save businesses money on outgoing
call charges.
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Crosby launches its mobile content platform, allowing anyone with a mobile phone to
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Crosby releases millennium bug applications, including large–scale internet products and
small SMS applications.
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Owing to substantial growth and the success of its products, the decision is taken to change
Crosby's status from a sole proprietorship to a Private Limited Company, founding
Crosby Ltd.
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Crosby releases the first version of its online billing systems, enabling telecommunications
companies to offer customers the option of paying bills/settling their accounts and managing
their services through the Internet/online. The first customers for this service include
mobile phone retailers, calling card operators and include Atlantic Telecom in Scotland.
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Crosby launches a 500–line interactive voice response system, with an additional
250 dedicated fax lines.
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Crosby releases its "Combined Ringtone Solution", allowing record labels to include
ringtones of the songs they are selling in their respective CD cases, thereby creating a new
source of revenue for the record companies.
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Crosby releases the first polyphonic ringtones, becoming the first company in the UK to
offer real"sounding, downloadable ringtones.
These new ringtones prove an instant hit,
and within two months viewers of the BBC's Top of the Pops are able to purchase polyphonic
versions of the ringtones of any song that's played on the programme.
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Crosby releases the first version of its "Short Message Platform", a system which
enables the user to send and receive text messages, download mobile content, and carry out
corporate, desktop and bulk text messaging.
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Crosby forms a partnership with ISP and telecommunications provider Tiscali PLC. Together
Crosby and Tiscali produce a promotional CD-ROM describing their respective businesses and
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Crosby adds reverse billing to its mobile services, enabling customers to charge any premium
rate text messages to Crosby (whether it's downloading mobile content, entering a
competition, registering a vote or even purchasing an item via text).
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Crosby bills one million minutes in a single month (most of which are £1.50 per minute,
premium rate calls), a major achievement for its flagship interactive voice response system.
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Crosby launches "Celebrity Voicemail", a system which allows customers to
install voicemail greetings from celebrities on their mobile phones.
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Crosby adds Vodafone MPAY to its SMS services, enabling
Vodafone users to buy content directly using the MPAY platform.
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Crosby announces the investment of over £1.5m into developing a state of the art data
centre to house its infrastructure.
Crosby expects the land to be purchased within the next 3 months and the centre completed
in time for a March 2003 opening.
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Crosby obtains direct connections with all 4 major UK mobile network operators, providing
increased functionality, higher out–payments and securing Crosby's business
interests for the future.
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Crosby opens its multi–million pound data centre, a custom–built facility housing
the company's computer servers and telecommunications equipment, and further securing
Crosby's future.
Learn more about the Crosby Data Centre
By investing in its own technology, Crosby has now quadrupled its phone lines, doubled its
SMS messaging throughput and doubled its internet bandwidth.
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Crosby releases MT Billing, a service allowing customers to charge multiple amounts,
different rates and different price points to mobile phones.
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Crosby wins a million–pound contract to supply London–based telecoms company
Intelliplus PLC with software and mobile–related services.
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Crosby establishes direct connections with Virgin Mobile, allowing Crosby's customers to
offer premium rate billing and other services directly to Virgin Mobile customers.
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Crosby and Mobile Crazy TV launch a digital TV channel on Sky from Crosby's newly
constructed data centre, a live channel offering downloadable mobile content 24 hours
a day.
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Crosby completes a connection to Hutchinson 3G, establishing a 3G platform long before the
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Crosby establishes direct connections into the main BT trunk exchanges. This allows Crosby to
handle huge volumes of calls simultaneously, giving the company a major advantage over its
competitors.
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(operating on the number 118 502), a national service charged at 50p per min. |
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Crosby celebrates being in business as a limited company for half a decade, having been
established as Crosby Ltd. since the 4th of November 1999.
Later in the month, Crosby goes on to launch a suite of broadcasting applications, bringing
innovative solutions to a number of radio stations in the UK.
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Crosby launches the Mystic Meg Psychic service in conjunction with Broadsystem and the
News of the World.
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Crosby receives the Investor in People award from the Centre for Recognition in the UK,
highlighting its commitment to the continued and measured development and training of staff.
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Crosby signals its intent to generate its own green power from its data centre.
Announces its commitment to making theirs the first data centre in the UK to run
on 100% green power.
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Crosby helps Stan Boardman's World Cup song get into a "top 20" chart position.
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Crosby opens a new office in the heart of Liverpool City Centre.
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One year ago, Crosby committed to the installation of a green power generating system for its
state of the art data centre in Southport, Merseyside.
Through a combination of fuel cell technology, wind turbines and solar panels, Crosby has now
cut its power consumption by 45%.
For more information, follow the link to see Crosby's Environmental Policy
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Crosby acquires McKay Brown I.T. Systems of Manchester, branching out into
new areas of I.T. and extending the company's customer base.
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Crosby Communications posts record profits for 2006. The company attributes this impressive
rise in profits to an increase in overseas trading and further investment in its own staff
and technology.
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Following the success of both its national and Liverpool–based Directory Enquiries services,
Crosby launches its 118 501 international Directory Enquiries service, offering access to
phone numbers from over 24 countries around the world.
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Crosby's quality management system (QMS) is awarded ISO 9001:2000 accreditation for Sales
and Distribution of Digital Media, following audits by the World Certification Services in
2007.
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Crosby announces that, within 12 months, the company will have reached 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.
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Crosby Communications announces 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.
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Today Crosby is proud of its 10–year heritage and boasts a solid infrastructure serving
customers including Barclays, the BBC, EMAP, Nokia, and the News of the World. Over the
years the company has worked with a number of celebrities, including Kylie Minogue,
Fatboy Slim, Louise, Damage and BBC Crime Watch presenter Nick Ross.
With a state of the art data centre, and talented staff, Crosby continues to go from
strength to strength.
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Crosby is a small village situated 8 miles from the City of Liverpool in the UK,
and is pronounced CROS-BIE or CROSSBEE as in Bing Crosby.
CROSBY takes its name from the Norse word meaning "village with crosses". In 1824 it
was described as "a great sea-bathing place, 6 miles NNW of Liverpool."
More history about Crosby the village can be found here |
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"Communication is about contact: bridging divides, bringing communities closer together, identifying brands with their customers, and companies with their employees. Used effectively, communication makes the world a smaller place. "
Matthew Wilson Founder and Managing Director
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