Freedom4 Comm. Share Discussion Threads

[spights] 07/7/2008 18:43

Not likely.....

[troys] 07/7/2008 18:27

Spights buying?

[troys] 07/7/2008 18:27

Goldman Sachs selling?

[troys] 07/7/2008 18:21

Dubens selling up?

[dutch2] 07/7/2008 14:50

why the big volume today ? and only moves +1% ?

[donkeystone] 07/7/2008 13:42

big volume?

[bamboo2] 06/7/2008 14:53

troys spights, good luck with ffc. hope you still watching his other interests...


so whats dubens up to?
ocl down over 10% since formation, despite forecasting increases of 25%/yr

just bought a co involved in derivatives called monument.

buffet quote"...In our view, however, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction, carrying dangers that, while now latent, are potentially lethal."

[troys] 06/7/2008 13:52

Don't waste the batter on him

[spights] 06/7/2008 13:49

I feel like battering and frying him

[troys] 06/7/2008 13:36

Whats dubens upto? Think he has lost interest in this one. Bigger fish to fry. :-)

[steven1404] 06/7/2008 13:33

yes looks pretty grim

[spights] 06/7/2008 13:29

yes all doomed :o)

[troys] 06/7/2008 13:28

All doomed howling :-)

[howling] 06/7/2008 12:47

Come on Zipcom

[howling] 29/6/2008 14:51

Because we are all DOOMED

[veryoldbob] 27/6/2008 20:17

Very small volume of shares traded recently so hard to see any reason for the rise. Wait for Monday to see if it's a trend...

[vivgav] 27/6/2008 19:06

Why the rise?

[vivgav] 27/6/2008 19:06

Why the rise?

[veryoldbob] 21/6/2008 13:34

"Mobile WiMax is similar to using a mobile nework and differs from networks using earlier WiMax technology that is being rolled out in the UK by wireless internet provider Freedom4, which required users to be stationary."

That's a bit harsh - it's more that F4's licence prevents mobile use than they're using earlier technology. AFAIK MWAG's mobile WiMAX licence is in the 2.5GHz range so should work well (they're talking 10 Mbps download as opposed to F4 in the 2-4 Mbps range) but has only been awarded on a temporary basis. Still it might give an idea for valuing the real 2.5GHz spectrum when it goes under the hammer in September.

[troys] 21/6/2008 12:22

From The TimesJune 21, 2008

Maidstone to run pioneer trial of mobile WiMax

Maidstone to run pioneer trial of mobile WiMaxLilly Peel
Maidstone, Kent, is an unlikely spot to go surfing despite being on the Medway as it snakes north on its route to the Thames Estuary.

However, the home of the Liquorice Allsort could be reborn next month when the town will become the first place in Britain to trial mobile WiMax, the latest phase of next-generation on-the-go web surfing. The wireless broadband technology has been described as "wi-fi on steroids" and has a range of up to 25 miles, compared with the mere 100ft radius that wi-fi offers.

The Maidstone pilot, a collaboration between the Mobile WiMax Acceleration Group (MWAG) and Maidstone Borough Council, will test services such as internet tele-phony, real-time video streaming and live broadcast and experiment with running the council's CCTV over the network.

In consumer trials, 50 students will be given data cards, loaded with virtual cash, to let them connect their laptops to the WiMax network and allow them to buy music and other content online. Mr Kerl Haslam, chairman of MWAG, hopes to target consumers who want access to high-speed internet but cannot afford a monthly contract.

Dave Lindsay, Maidstone Borough Council's IT manager, said that routing its CCTV over WiMax could save the council a £40,000 annual bill for renting optical fibre from BT and will allow the cameras to be moved around the town. He said: "A pilot with Kent Fire Brigade and Kent Police will allow emergency services to video stream live footage of incidents back to their own networks over WiMax."

Mobile WiMax is similar to using a mobile nework and differs from networks using earlier WiMax technology that is being rolled out in the UK by wireless internet provider Freedom4, which required users to be stationary.

WiMax has yet to take off despite being touted for some time as the next big thing. It is considered a potential threat to mobile operators, which hope data use will boost falling voice and text revenue.

Last year WiMax Forum, the industry body, estimated that 3.6 million people worldwide used the service, a fraction of the 200 million users of third-generation mobile networks.

However, roll-out of the technology appears to be gaining pace and the forum forecasts 100 million subscribers by 2012. In the past week, the world's first commercial mobile WiMax network went live in Amsterdam; Sprint, a US mobile network, said it would deploy its WiMax arm in September and regional WiMax licences went on sale in France.

The Maidstone trial, which will cover an area of 7.5km from the town centre and deliver download speeds of up to 10MB per second, hopes to prove that there is a viable business model for the technology before Ofcom's much-anticipated 2.6 gigahertz spectrum auction, which is due to take place towards the end of the year.

As well as offering airwaves suitable for mobile television and the next-generation, long term evolution technology, the auction is seen as the best chance for a WiMax operator to gain a national licence in a main European economy.

Mr Haslam, expects it to complement rather than compete with existing networks. "WiMax has the opportunity to get established. We can offer affordable mobile broadband as WiMax transmits more data at a lower cost.

"The networks are cheaper to build than mobile networks and can plug the gaps in rural broadband coverage as WiMax can reach places that are underserved by optic fibre."

But analysts are sceptical about the degree to which WiMax will be taken up. Like 3G, capacity is reduced by range and the number of users online; there are few WiMax-enabled devices on the market and internet providers are deploying higher broadband speeds via HSDPA.

[spights] 19/6/2008 08:55

Thankyou Troys and humphries1 for above posts.

[humphries1] 19/6/2008 08:37

bit more news click on link