Avanti Communications Share Discussion Threads

[yorgi] 15/11/2010 10:21

Good to see your still counting Someuwin :-)

[someuwin] 15/11/2010 10:20

7 trading days to go...

[yorgi] 15/11/2010 00:07

Yes nothing new to us old lags but nicely spelt out and worth any newbies listening to which could lead to new buyers for AVN

[engelo] 14/11/2010 23:52

more old news, but new voice!!

[share_shark] 14/11/2010 18:47

Yes I know that.

It was for the new investors here but many thanks anyhow.

[abwr75] 14/11/2010 16:51

Old news shark

[jonnib] 14/11/2010 13:19

pixi

good post thanks for that and advice

[pixi] 13/11/2010 12:45

jonnib

Re: targets and what to do when they are reached is the $64K question every investor should ask themselves. Set yourself a realistic target and assess the situation when your target is hit. Do not rush into making any hasty decision that you might later regret.

Off topic, here is something for you to consider:

Dear UK-Analyst.com member,

We told you gold would hit $1400. It did so on Monday. Now we tell you that gold will hit $2000 during 2011

According to Robert Zoellick, president of the World Bank: 'the soaring price of gold reflects the international unease about the strength of large developed economies'. He stated that 'Gold is now being viewed as an alternative monetary asset. It has become a reference point because holders of money see weak or uncertain growth prospects in all currencies. Gold is appealing to people who ask where should I put my money. It is a hedge against uncertainty'.

The price of Gold hit another record high yesterday, as investors worried about the state of the European economies and inflation. All major economies are printing money at record rates. Gold is the ONLY currency not being thus devalued. The price has now risen by about 7% since the US central bank announced last week its plan to inject $600bn (£372bn) into the American economy.

Gold mining companies are an operationally geared play on the gold price. And so if - as we expect - gold gains at least another 50% during the next 12 months gold stocks will rise by a multiple of that.

Blar, blar...

Note: Around 30 per cent of my holdings are in gold miners.

[share_shark] 13/11/2010 10:40

DMCii-led project exploits satellites...
12 November 2010, 12:08pm

DMCii-led project exploits satellites to strengthen UK disaster response

Space is set to become an important resource for UK disaster response efforts. DMCii is leading a new European Space Agency (ESA) project to design and build a system for the UK civil resilience community – those tasked with responding to and recovering from disasters – putting space-based systems at their disposal.

The system will be used for all types of emergencies listed in the UK's National Risk Register but the project's focus is on flood scenarios. Flooding in summer 2007 cost the UK an estimated £3 billion, with more than 55,000 homes and businesses inundated and hundreds of thousands of homes losing power or water.

The 'Integrating Space Assets for UK Civil Resilience' project is part of ESA's Integrated Applications Promotion (IAP) programme (see which develops value-added services by integrating space assets such as Earth observation, satellite communications and satellite navigation.

The Technology Strategy Board, which is charged with encouraging technology-driven innovation in the UK, provided the catalyst for the project by sponsoring pre-feasibility activities to establish the usefulness of the system. Working in partnership with the UK Space Agency, the Technology Strategy Board also played an important role in bringing together the diverse project partners from UK industry and is managing the UK's subscription to ESA's satellite telecommunications, navigation and integrated applications programmes.

The UK Space Agency is taking a close interest in the project, having made integrated applications of space assets a national priority. This policy has born fruit for "UK PLC" with the new ESA centre opened at Harwell, Oxfordshire, home of ESA's IAP activities in the UK, and also of the International Space Innovation Centre.

"The IAP is intended to engage directly with users who are not necessarily familiar with the benefits of space systems; our project definitely follows that lead," says Adina Gillespie of DMCii. "We are working with a very large and varied user community including the Civil Contingencies Secretariat of the UK Cabinet Office, numerous Government Departments and agencies, and regional and local authorities."

Having assessed user requirements, the next step will be to design an integrated, easily-operable system, adds Gillespie: "It will be a bespoke tool to include in the tool-kit available to emergency responders and decision makers. It can't be too complicated – in the midst of a disaster there will be no time for picking up new skills such as interpreting satellite imagery."

The system's final shape will be determined based on the user requirements, but it will give responders strong situational awareness using various services in combination, such as:

• Rapid mapping of affected areas using satellite imagery.

• Bolstering resilience of communication networks using satellite communications.

• Enhancing traffic management for evacuations and other activities.

• Coordinating intelligence for asset management, with everything from ambulances and trucks to flood barriers tagged with GPS.

In March 2011 the government will carry out a National Flood Event exercise to test national flood preparedness. It is being coordinated from the national 'COBRA' level down to local authorities. In an exciting opportunity, the project team has been invited to observe the event then debrief the exercise 'players' outlining how existing space assets could have been used during the exercise.

"Flooding is around the top of the disaster list in terms of impact and frequency – it affects everything," explains Gillespie. "Imagine the worst case scenario and then add water."

The project is being run by a consortium of five organisations: DMCii takes the lead role, with Infoterra Ltd supporting the Earth observation components, Avanti Communications taking the satellite communications role, Nottingham Scientific Ltd working on satellite navigation and the British Geological Survey providing additional expertise on geohazards.

The project will run for approximately 14 months, after which a follow-up demonstration phase is envisaged.

[ib1905] 13/11/2010 08:15

Hey Sco77 - just read your post re AVA and went off to look - on their board yesterday they highlight the surprise buys ... was tempted to post that they are probably our customers but thought that would be churlish...

[share_shark] 12/11/2010 22:23

UK space sector earnings now at £7.5bn
November 12th, 2010 at 10:04 am

By Jonathan Amos

So says a report from the Oxford Economics consultancy, which predicts the growth will continue in 2010.

The space business is now said to have a turnover worth some £7.5bn, with employment rising at about 15% a year.

The best performing areas are in so-called downstream activities – services such as satellite broadcasting and telecommunications.

But even the upstream sector – such as satellite manufacturing – recorded a very healthy performance, averaging annual growth of 3% over the period 2006/07 to 2008/09.

The latest "Size and Health" report was commissioned by the UK Space Agency and is based on a survey of the activities of 260 leading companies.

"We had good anecdotal evidence through the recession that we were doing well but now we have the hard numbers; and it's very positive," said Richard Peckham from EADS Astrium and chair of UK Space, an umbrella group representing the industry.

And as if to emphasise the point on Monday, London-based satellite communications operator Inmarsat announced an 18.4% rise in its third-quarter earnings. The company is the world's biggest provider of comms on the move.

"Satellites go where terrestrial services don't, and what we're doing now with satellites is providing broadband – or internet access – or e-mail coverage in remote environments," CEO Andrew Sukawaty said.

"And because we're extending this service to an under-served market, we're now in a position to expand even in the middle of a recession."

The space sector recently set out a 20-year vision for itself called the Space Innovation and Growth Strategy (S-IGS).

It identified what it thought were the emerging market trends and the approaches that needed to be adopted to exploit them.

It covered areas as diverse as space tourism and the delivery of broadband internet by satellite.

The vision called on industry to intensify its R&D spending, but also for government to increase its investment.

If that happened, the S-IGS said, the UK space sector could create up to 100,000 new UK jobs in space-related activity and grow revenues to £40bn a year.

Mr Peckham said the government could help underpin the success story.

The space sector is currently championing the potential of a privately financed, national Earth-observation (EO) service to acquire imagery for the MoD and other government departments, while selling other data on the open market.

The satellites would be built and operated by the private sector, but to stand a chance of success the project would need a long-term commitment from the government to purchase its products.

"Government has a huge influence through procurement; it's what they buy," Mr Peckham told BBC News.

"We think one of the biggest markets going forward is Earth observation. We're not asking for hundreds of millions of pounds from government, but if they will just aggregate all their requirements then we can build something and go and export it."

Other examples of smart government investments include the Hylas-1 spacecraft. Due to launch on 25 November, it will become Europe's first broadband dedicated satellite, providing internet connections to rural areas poorly served by terrestrial technology.

Hylas will be operated by start-up Avanti Communications, but the spacecraft's core technology came out of a European Space Agency R&D programme funded by the British government.

A close look at the figures published by Oxford Economics reveals they are dominated by a few large companies, and by the earnings of the satellite TV provider BSkyB in particular.

In fact, broadcast services accounted for 68% of UK space sector turnover in 2008/2009.

Asked whether this distorted the general picture somewhat, science minister David Willetts responded: "It is true that the downstream revenues are shaped by BSkyB – at the moment. But one of the strengths of this sector is that we have a really good mix of some big companies and a lot of SMEs.

"We can expect this sector to grow and diversify," he told BBC News.

(Source: BBC)

[share_shark] 12/11/2010 22:19

We KNOW the news but just check from whence the link has originiated !.

[share_shark] 12/11/2010 22:16

Objectives



Hylas-1 serving Europe

Hylas-1 is bringing Europe broadband from the sky. This 'Highly Adaptable Satellite' is our continent's first geostationary satellite dedicated to high-speed Internet, rolling out broadband connectivity to hundreds of thousands of Europeans.

Gaps in connection

It is hard to imagine modern life without broadband, for most of us at least. The high cost of extending terrestrial broadband networks, however, means that many Europeans still do not have the high-speed connectivity that the rest take for granted.
Access to broadband is increasingly recognised as economically and socially essential – even mandated by some nations as a fundamental human right. But the fact remains that tens of millions of Europeans remain deprived of it.

Terrestrial broadband access is based on on extensive communications infrastructure, which it is often uneconomic to extend into more remote areas. Some 13 million European homes and businesses fall within such 'notspots', finding them with no way of accessing high-speed Internet. There is little indication the situation will improve significantly within the coming decade.


Connecting anywhere with its 'footprint'
Flexible cross-European coverage

But Hylas-1 is capable of connecting up even the remotest corners of Europe - from Ireland in the west to Greece in the east, Denmark in the north to Italy and Spain in the south, simultaneously serving widely-dispersed collections of end-users.

Thanks to continuous improvements in telecommunications technology, satellites have become an efficient method of getting Europe online. Geography presents no obstacle: from city suburbs to rural villages, remote islands to high mountains, anyone within the satellite 'footprint' can obtain a broadband link.

ESA has devoted years to developing satellite broadband technologies through its ARTES (Advanced Research in Telecommunication Systems) initiative. Now several of these innovations are being put to work aboard Hylas-1. The mission's flexible payload technology can vary its data throughput across the European regions it serves, keeping pace with market demand.



Avanti Communications
Serving a developing market

Hylas-1 serves as an excellent case study of the added value that ESA provides to Europe's economy. As one of the few worldwide space agencies tasked with responsibility for industrial competitiveness and market development as well as basic exploration and technology research and development, ESA can collaborate with industry to leverage new technologies swiftly into sustainable business applications.

Joining forces with commercial operator Avanti Communications means that Europe's advanced telecom technologies reach orbit much more rapidly and economically than otherwise. The Hylas-1 public–private partnership drives the technical state-of-the-art forward in space while efficiently serving a fast-developing market.

[jeffian] 12/11/2010 19:45

It has been known. A few years ago the Independent share tipster wrote a glowing recommendation to buy Interserve, a building contractor, but on reading the article it was clear they were talking about Intercare, a manufacturer and distributor of generic drugs. They never printed a correction and I often wonder how many went out and bought the wrong share on the back of that!

[ib1905] 12/11/2010 16:18

Absolutely clear sg31 - many thanks and have a good weekend

[sg31] 12/11/2010 16:02

T+3 is the normal settlement period. (3 days after the trade)

Some brokers will allow a longer period between making the trade and settlement in the case of T+10 this is 10 days between the trade and settlement.

Some traders buy shares and then sell them again within the settlement period.By doing this they only pay the difference between the buying and selling prices if the share price drops or they can take the profit if the share price rises without having to pay for the original shares.

Trading in this way it is possible to "buy" many more shares than you could buy normally increasing the gearing of the investment.

Hope that helps

[ib1905] 12/11/2010 15:29

Can someone help please - 'T' traders - is that short term/day traders?

[m.t.glass] 12/11/2010 11:34

Yep - we are now into the period where T+10 traders might be taking positions..
(are there many such these days?)

[someuwin] 12/11/2010 11:15

8 trading days to go...

[ib1905] 12/11/2010 08:35

Morning all - yes ftse opened down 58 and stocks with no news have gone south with it - mine are all red - ecept AVN;-) Still we were due a clawback - been a great 10 days