Telenor Eide MCP in Arendal will over the next five years ensure guests with cruise giant Carnival can use their mobile phones on board.
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– It is our far the biggest contract some time, says Frode Støldal, CEO of Maritime Communications Partner (MCP) in Arendal the contract over five years with Carnival.
Maritime Communications Partner (MCP) MCP will install and operate mobile communication in 33 vessels and thus provide that 130,000 passengers and crew daily can use their mobile phones to talk, text messages and data via satellite on board. The gross value of the contract is for the DN understand at around a billion over the next five years. But it will depend on passenger mobile use and distribution of earnings between MCP and Carnival.
– I can not say much about it beyond that our business model is that we own the equipment aboard and share revenue with the company, says Støldal .
MCP was established in the wake of Ericsson’s closure in Grimstad just after the millennium. Six engineers with former general manager Trygve Sten Gustavsen spearheaded got financial support from, among others, senior shipowner Andreas KL Ugland (89). In 2004 Telenor an owner and later bought all the shares. Until 2010 the MCP with substantial losses (totaling 92 million before tax from the start), but from 2011 to 2013 shows the accounts significant improvement in earnings. In 2013 the surplus was 64 million before tax. Turnover has increased from 190 million in 2010 to 366 million in 2013.
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