Blue Star Mobile Share Discussion Threads

[still waiting] 15/3/2006 15:25

I wonder when the T-mobile promotions will start.

[rivaldo] 07/3/2006 07:52

Good to see Forbes Magazine picking up on little ol' BTR!


"Blue Star Mobile in English football sponsorship agency deal with T-Mobile
03.06.2006, 04:00 AM

LONDON (AFX) - Blue Star Mobile Group PLC, which provides entertainment and promotional content via mobile phones, said its wholly owned unit, Blue Star Sport Ltd has signed a new 18-month contract to be T-Mobile's retained English football sponsorship agency.

Further, Blue Star has also been retained to activate, in the UK, T-Mobile's sponsorship of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Blue Star Sport negotiates, manages and activates all T-Mobile's English football sponsorship contracts including the sponsorships of West Bromwich Albion, Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Charlton Athletic and Southampton football clubs."

[rivaldo] 06/3/2006 20:30

Can't believe just £7k of shares traded today on this news :o))

BTR is certainly under the radar - at the moment anyway. This is a major contract guaranteeing future revenues, it's a major recognition of BTR's skillsets, and it should act as the bedrock for further advances in profitability and additional contract wins like those of Motorola, News International etc etc.

On a £4.5m m/cap the realisation of profitability and future revenue visibility (as GHF says above) should imo soon spark a major re-rating.

[rivaldo] 06/3/2006 08:40

Indeed. And the News of the World has their World Cup text news service going every week run by BTR too. It's hard to imagine that with these kind of contracts BTR won't continue to be profitable.

And with awards nominations coming up plus a client list to dream about they should be able to attract significant new business without too much trouble.

[glasshalfull] 06/3/2006 07:25

Morning Rivaldo

Looks fine to me too. Gives some visability to the business going forward.


Regards
GHF

[rivaldo] 06/3/2006 07:12

Here we go - what must this be worth for a £5m m/cap company, on top of the long-term News International contracts....



"English football sponsorship agency deal with T-Mobile

Including 2006 FIFA World Cup sponsorship

Blue Star Mobile Group PLC ('Blue Star'), the AIM listed provider of
entertainment and promotional content via mobile phones, announces that its
fully owned subsidiary Blue Star Sport Ltd ('Blue Star Sport') has signed a new
18-month contract to be T-Mobile's retained English football sponsorship agency.

Blue Star has also been retained to activate, in the UK, T-Mobile's sponsorship
of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Blue Star Sport negotiates, manages and activates all T-Mobile's English
football sponsorship contracts including the sponsorships of West Bromwich
Albion, Aston Villa, Birmingham City, Charlton Athletic and Southampton football clubs. The contract continues an association that started in 2003 and is for primarily sponsorship and PR services as well as mobile content consultancy.

T-Mobile has been shortlisted in The Hollis Sponsorship Awards (Best use of PR
in a Sponsorship Campaign) and The Sport Industry Awards (Best use of PR in a
Sport Campaign) for activity undertaken by Blue Star Sport in 2005. The awards
ceremonies will take place in March and April respectively.

Blue Star Sport has a long established and close working relationship with
T-Mobile with five of the six members of the account team working solely on the
T-Mobile account. Two members of the team are seconded to the T-Mobile
Sponsorship Department and work out of T-Mobile's Hatfield HQ.

Phil Chapman, Marketing Director, T-Mobile UK said:

'Over the past three years, Blue Star Sport has provided an invaluable service
to T-Mobile, helping steer our brand into the hearts and minds of the football
consumer. Their confidence in successfully winning the competitive tender for
our business is testimony to their ability to consistently deliver on our
strategic sponsorship objectives'.

David Piper, Chief Operating Officer, said:

'I am delighted that Blue Star Sport has been retained by T-Mobile as its
football sponsorship agency for a further 18 months, continuing a partnership
that began for the agency in 2003 and for me personally in 1998. Blue Star
Sport looks forward to continuing our excellent working relationship with
T-Mobile and is thrilled to be leading an exciting football sponsorship
programme, which as well as National, Premiership, Championship and grass roots
activity also includes the 2006 FIFA World Cup GermanyTM'"

[rivaldo] 02/3/2006 12:10

Classic closing paragraph kryss :o))

More small investors getting impatient I see. Patience is the rarest quality in investing - just look at LDC for proof recently when everyone else was panic-selling down to 12p enabling others to load up. It's now 25.25p just months later.

One more piece of news, World Cup or otherwise, could see BTR back up to 20p in an instant on such a small m/cap.

[kryss] 27/2/2006 18:10

The present outbreak is Bird flu affects birds and is transmitted from birds to birds and people handling infected birds - Emergency plans are already in place for this scenario - basically to reduce the infection risk to humans by not handling infected birds - and minimise spread in the bird population at large by culling/quaranteening/innoculation as appropriate.

The scare is about a hypothesised mutated version that is directly transmittable human to human - that is a different kettle of fish as it would rapidly spread through the human population the way the Black death did. If this happens everything will tank as the first thing to happen will be the suspension of normal working patterns.

Anyway if people dont goto the world cup ie it goes ahead but teams play to empty stadia, more people will need updating via mobile content.

[stewart83] 24/2/2006 14:28

sorry part message did not print

[stewart83] 24/2/2006 14:27

lou72
Who said it was in the press,but it was in a couple of papers express,bild ,in germany ,so you are correct you dont read the right papers,i will try and explain some analyist says to client what the news is it is possible the worlds cup may be affected by the bird flu virus some INVESTORS panic and sell because they have read in some BB

[hartlepoolfc2] 24/2/2006 14:02

All buys so far today, thats good to see.

[lou72] 24/2/2006 13:46

I guess I don't read the right papers but haven't noticed this cancelling the world cup rumour. Why fear of a flu pandemic should hit one micro cap and leave the rest of the market unscathed is beyond me, but strange things do happen!

[stewart83] 24/2/2006 07:47

IMHO that was not profit taking 3 weeks to a months ago you could have got 20.4p to sell so why sell a 17p or less the issue price to some people was between 16 -20p plus dealing cost,I dont think so.
KRYSS
THEIR ARE MANY VARIANTS some kill some incapacitate but it is no hype and hysteria but just putting the facts as they are

[stewart83] 23/2/2006 17:52

I fully expect the world cup to go ahead. but the germans are the ones taking it serious.&WHO

[kryss] 23/2/2006 17:45

This ia all hype and hysteria confusing bird flu which will affect maybe the poultry industries with a mutated version of the virus transmittable to humans FROM humans. If this happens there wont be any point worrying about a share price youll be worrying about survival!

[glasshalfull] 23/2/2006 17:33

Some profit taking was enivatable, 50% rise in a couple of weeks isn't to be sniffed at.

There will always be scare mongering stories but I'm with Rivaldo on this one and fully expect the World Cup to go ahead. The story was a good read though.


Regards
GHF

[stewart83] 23/2/2006 15:24

hartlepoolf?c2
if you are that sure they are that good borrow some @5% put your money where your mouth is simple

[rivaldo] 23/2/2006 14:28

Look, there's a pig flying through the snow....well, it COULD happen. But it won't. And the World Cup is just an added bonus as stated previously - the core business is doing very nicely anyway (Motorola, News Corp, T-Mobile, Vodafone, O2 etc anyone?...)

[stewart83] 23/2/2006 12:26

THANK YOU TOLE
I did not fancy putting it all in that context but it has been bandied about in germany it COULD happen. negitave news gets picked up very quickly by both the media and financial markets

[rivaldo] 23/2/2006 12:20

LOL :o))

Thx Tole. Yep, the usual media hysteria. Unbelievable.

BTR is now operating profitably, so that alone justifies the current m/cap of just £5.4m, without growth potential or takeover possibilities.

I also came across this - hadn't realised BTR were behind the Times Su Doku campaign for mobile phones:


"LONDON - The Times has brought the cult gaming craze of Sudoku to mobile phones with an offer promoted through the newspaper.

Fans of the brain-teaser game, which involves filling in an unfinished grid of numbers, can download 10 puzzles for their mobile phones for £4.50.

Every time the downloaded game is started up, each player is reminded to buy the print edition of the newspaper.

"This is a first for mobile content," Ray Anderson, CEO of Bango, said the mobile specialist, which is working with News International to offer the services for The Times.

"Sudoku is perfect for the mobile phone," he added. "A lot of people have their mobile with them when they want to kill time with a game like this. The Sudoku board fits the current screen sizes and, of course, it is all about numbers."

The mobile game even has a "cheat" mode, which can allow the player to uncover the true number for each part of the grid.

Bango's technology "enables The Times to engage the user this way and to sell to them when they want to buy the game," Anderson explained.

With the Bango Txt Trigger service, people can access the Sudoku mobile internet site which was created by Blue Star Mobile by texting "sudoku" to 85080."

[stewart83] 23/2/2006 11:58

the world cup was 25-40% of expected projected earning, where is this wrong tree RIVALDO, BTR need new contracts the ones they have got are not multi million mega deals wages to be payed profits to be made not with what they have got

[rivaldo] 23/2/2006 11:21

Eh? Stewart, where on earth have you heard that?! The phrase "barking up the wrong tree" comes to mind....

Anyway, World Cup news is only a bonus on top of the core business. Plenty of peeps have made money up from 11p or so, so a bit of profit-taking is healthy. The price is still well up, yet is currently well below the IPO price. World Cup news would be the icing on the cake imo to take the shares to a new level.

[stewart83] 23/2/2006 11:09

the possible downgrade in price may be because of THE WORLD CUP may not take place this year which can effect predicted earnings