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[stromboli] 26/12/2004 13:09

LOOKING GOOD FOR NEW YEAR

[brain smiley] 23/12/2004 11:57

Well done Keef !

[maut too] 23/12/2004 11:37

well I am up 37% since buying ahead of the nas listing - currently = to 1.07p in old money

[ebahgum] 21/12/2004 17:09

thinks a 30% increase in the share price would be nice as well

[maut too] 21/12/2004 15:30

new faster speeds have gone live at no extra cost

[ivor massive1] 20/12/2004 15:56

Afternoon.

[maut too] 20/12/2004 10:25

Broadband in the UK gathers pace BBC NEWS

More than four million connect to broadband via the phone line
One person in the UK is joining the internet's fast lane every 10 seconds, according to BT.
The telecoms giant said the number of people on broadband via the telephone line had now surpassed four million.

Including those connected via cable, almost six million people have a fast, always-on connection.

The boom has been fuelled by fierce competition and falling prices, as well as the greater availability of broadband over the phone line.

"The take-up rate for broadband is accelerating at a terrific pace," said Ben Verwaayen, BT's chief executive.

"We will be in a very strong position to hit our five million target by summer 2006 much earlier than we had previously expected."

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The last million connections were made over the past four months, with thousands of people being added to the total every day of the week.


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Those signing up to broadband include those that get their service direct from BT or via the many companies that re-sell BT lines under their own name.

Part of the surge in people signing up was due to BT stretching the reach of ADSL - the UK's most widely used way of getting broadband - beyond six kilometres.

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line technology lets ordinary copper phone lines support high data speeds. The standard speed is 512kbps, though faster connections are available.

According to BT, more than 95% of UK homes and businesses can receive broadband over the phone line. It aims to extend this figure to 99.4% by next summer.

There are also an estimated 1.7 million cable broadband customers in the UK.

[maut too] 16/12/2004 07:36

December 16, 2004

Telewest pledges audit of payments
By Richard Irving and Dan Sabbagh



TELEWEST, the cable company, said last night that it would launch an independent investigation into the payment of up to £5 million in sales commissions at one of its subsidiaries.
In a short statement to Nasdaq, on which Telewest's shares trade, the company said that its audit committee would launch an independent review into "certain business practices" at IDS, the subsidiary.



The unit, based in London, sells advertising time on television channels in which Telewest has an ownership interest.

The company said that the business practices to be reviewed, which were brought to the attention of the audit committee by senior members of the company's management, involve the payment of commissions to commercial counterparties over the period of 2001 to date. The total sum involved is thought not to exceed £5 million.

The company declined to say whether any members of staff had been suspended while the investigation continues, although a spokesman emphasised that it did not expect the investigation to bear a "material impact" on the company's financial statements.

Telewest provides multi-channel television, telephone and internet services to 1.75 million homes in the UK. Its contents division, Flextech, is the BBC's partner in UKTV. Together, they are the largest supplier of basic channels to the UK pay-TV market.

The news comes as Telewest completes a complex £1.75 refinancing package. It is expected to open merger talks with NTL,its rival.

[maut too] 16/12/2004 07:28

Thu 16 Dec 2004

LONDON (SHARECAST) - The Financial Times writes broadband communications and media group Telewest Global said its audit committee was launching an independent probe into sales commissions by a unit which sells television advertising on stations in which Telewest has a stake.

[shirishg] 15/12/2004 00:01

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[maut too] 15/12/2004 00:00

up again tonight ... $16.45 or 1.058p in old money ... must admit I am showing a 30% + gain ... which is nice

[maut too] 15/12/2004 00:00

up again tonight ... $16.45 or 1.058p in old money ... must admit I am showing a 30% + gain ... which is nice

[maut too] 14/12/2004 12:27

this helps to get cable a higher and better profile




Cable firm index linked


NTL, the UK's biggest cable television provider, is to be added to the United States Nasdaq 100 index.

It will be part of the index from the beginning of trade a week on Monday.

The Nasdaq 100 is composed of the 100 largest non-financial stocks listed on the Nasdaq exchange based on market capitalisation. As of December 10, ntl's market value was $6.1 billion (£3.2bn).

[maut too] 13/12/2004 08:18

Posted 12/12/2004 10:12 PM Updated 12/13/2004 2:27 AM




Cable powers forward with next-level phone, video, Internet services
By David Lieberman, USA TODAY
NEW YORK - Cable operators seemed to be doing their best Al Jolson impersonations in a series of presentations to money managers and analysts last week.
After a year of intense competition from satellite broadcasters and with phone providers preparing to offer TV video, cable executives promised Wall Street, to use Jolson's words: You ain't seen nothin' yet.

Next year, they say, they will roll out a new generation of cable-powered phone, video and Internet services that will make consumers forget the competition.

"We want our customers to push, push, push buttons," Mediacom CFO Mark Stephan says.

It's a familiar message. Operators have captured about 61% of the 31 million high-speed Internet customers. They're also aggressively promoting digital services, including video on demand (VOD).

Still, Wall Street is wary, pushing cable stocks down 5% in 2004. Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons thinks the caution is overblown: "If I read it one more time, I'm going to get sick. 'The phone companies are coming.' 'The satellite companies are coming.' "

Executives, speaking at two conferences here, say that they're back on offense, ready to offer services that match or beat rivals. Among the offerings:

•Phones. Operators say they're finally ready to take on the phone companies using a technology that transmits calls as Internet-like data.

Time Warner already offers phone service in 30 of its 31 markets. After a year in Portland, Maine, it has 15% of all home customers.

Comcast will announce its plans next month, and nearly everyone expects to be in the game this year. As a result, homes getting phone services via cable will leap 50% in 2005, to 4.6 million, UBS analyst Aryeh Bourkoff estimates.

"It'll be a spectacular product," says Adelphia CEO William Schleyer. "We're going to take a huge share" of the market.

While packages vary, most will charge about $40 a month for unlimited local and domestic long-distance calls, plus caller ID and Enhanced 911. Customers also can keep their current phone numbers.

Executives say they're nearly ready to blend phones with other devices, for example enabling people to tap into voice-mail messages via the Internet and flashing caller ID information on a TV screen.

•Digital video recorders (DVRs). After years of promises, most operators are finally ready to offer DVRs - which make it easy to record shows on a computer-like hard drive - in decoders with two tuners that let users watch one live show and record another.

Here, too, Time Warner leads the pack. It has about 65% of cable's nearly 1.3 million DVR customers.

With others jumping in, about 3.2 million cable homes - 4.7% of subscribers - will have similar cable-provided DVRs by the end of 2005, Smith Barney estimates, and more than 42% by 2010.

Again, offerings vary. For example, Mediacom charges $2.50 a month. But for $10, Cablevision offers DVR-equipped decoders with 160-gigabyte hard drives capable of recording high-definition shows.

Ultimately, operators see this as a transition service. They dream of a day when customers can call up any show they want through video on demand. "It's something that can't be done by satellite," Charter CEO Carl Vogel says.

Comcast and others say they're pushing program producers to provide more VOD movies and shows.

•Faster Internet. Operators say they can keep their broadband lead by offering higher speeds, rather than lower prices to match phone company DSL offerings.

For example, Cablevision recently raised speeds 43% to 5 megabits per second and says it can double that any time it wants. Phone DSL services top out at about 3 Mbps, and typically run much slower.

Cable operators say they'll use the speed to offer services such as music videos on demand, video instant messaging and e-mail.

[mauts daughter] 08/12/2004 14:45

`to maker money`-ROFLMFAO@ TAG, AND MAUTS LOSSES

LOLOL-sold just before the end, and bgt. back for a fat profit-maut you could lie for the World

[maut too] 08/12/2004 14:34

rorysdad I start every day with a new and clean sheet. I traded twt and overall made a few £ and fortunately closed out before the last falls. I bought just ahead of the restructuring was completed and currently showing a big % profit. I am in the markets to maker money and that's what I am doing.

I thought it was wrong at the time and personally spent a lot of time and some money trying to get a better deal. At the time the site was trashed it looked like it was going to be 3% or better for shareholders but it was not to be ... you have to move on - spending more time on the past is like averaging down but without the possibility of winning. You do your best and then move on ...

[rorysdad] 08/12/2004 14:23

maut too - A big change in tune since you asked Acelogic to set up the Telewest Action Group!

Does that now mean the Directors, of that time, were thoroughly decent chaps?

[maut too] 08/12/2004 14:08

YOU MAY WELL BE RIGHT ... but surely time to move on - with investing - timing is everything

[angry eric 2] 08/12/2004 13:52

If they had sold Flextech TWT wouln't have needed to stuff its share holders. The biggest con and the FSA did absolutely nothing. Why oh why do we bother with this utterly toothless incompetent organisation called the FSA?

[rorysdad] 08/12/2004 10:29

Both companies were left struggling under a mountain of debt following the installation of a cable network in the UK and subsequent mismanagement of the operation.

With several TV firms in the UK keen to offer more channels, analysts believe Flextech could sell at a premium.

More or less says it all !

[maut too] 08/12/2004 10:02

sadly I do not ... I am talking the pre nas time scale - before the 805 dilution and at todays xchange rate of 1.932

[ebahgum] 08/12/2004 09:53

maut, you mean 103p

[maut too] 08/12/2004 09:28

$16.02 for another new high since restructuring ... around 1.03p in old money :-))