Netcall Share Discussion Threads

[snappy] 17/11/2002 22:01

where I live we only have one choice Telewest as BT haven't sorted out the exchange yet.

[bristolbaz] 17/11/2002 20:53

if you want cheep (like the buggie!!) - that is little support - try

cheapest around at the moment

[biomax] 17/11/2002 20:53

bt broadband is not too bad, cuts off from time to time though
haven't compared to the others

[logica2me] 17/11/2002 20:51

Currently looking at getting Broadband, I can;t get NTL in my area - anyone had any experience of the following?

Freeserve
BTOpenworld
OneTel
BT Broadband

Thanking you all in anticipation.

Log

[wakeland] 31/10/2002 21:25

are you sure you're seeing straight ?

[woggle-eye] 31/10/2002 18:57

looks like a nice run up to results, why is my 20k shown as a ? when it was a buy at offer price.

[wakeland] 18/7/2002 23:43

Director's buying but more importantly so are the institution's , here's one tech tiddler that's raising cash , pretty rare in this market !!

[wakeland] 18/7/2002 23:41

Netcall PLC
16 July 2002

For Immediate Release:

NETCALL PLC

('Netcall' or 'Company')


Placing of 20,240,000 New Ordinary Shares 5 p per share

Re Directorate


Netcall announces that it proposes to raise £1.012 million (before expenses) by
means of a Placing of 20,240,000 New Ordinary Shares at 5p per share.


The net proceeds of the Placing will be used to provide working capital to
enable the Group to convert qualified prospects into contracted sales of
QueueBusterTM.


Background to the Placing and Current Trading


Netcall sells products and services to call and contact centres. Netcall's
flagship product, QueueBuster, enables call centres to manage call queuing,
reduce costs and enhance customer service. Netcall is targeting the finance,
utility and telecoms vertical market sectors with the immediate objective of
using a mix of direct and indirect channel sales to accelerate penetration of
the £250 million market opportunity for QueueBuster in the UK.


Netcall has made steady progress over the last 12 months and, in addition to the
existing QueueBuster customers, the Company now has thirteen QueueBuster trials
ordered, in process or in post trial contract negotiations and has over fifty
targeted qualified prospects.


Committed Capital Pty Ltd ('Committed Capital')


The Board believes that the Group has taken a significant step in establishing
QueueBuster as an international product by signing a memorandum of understanding
with Committed Capital, an Australian-based executive capital company
specialising in devising and implementing business strategy. The arrangement
with Committed Capital should facilitate the securing of a global distribution
partner for QueueBuster and provide the funding and management expertise to
establish a joint venture with Committed Capital to market QueueBuster in Asia,
Australasia and South America.


Committed Capital has agreed to arrange the subscription for 2,000,000 New
Ordinary Shares in the Placing.


Under the Memorandum, once an agreement with a suitable distribution partner has
been finalised, Committed Capital will be issued options to subscribe for up to
15% of the then issued share capital of the Company. The options will be
exercisable in three tranches of 5% at exercise prices of 10p to be exercised
within one year of the date of grant, 15p per Ordinary Share to be exercised
within two years of the date of grant and 20p per Ordinary Share to be exercised
within three years of the date of grant.


Details of the Placing


Seymour Pierce has agreed, upon the terms and conditions of a placing agreement
dated 16 July 2002, to use its reasonable endeavours to place the 20,240,000 New
Ordinary Shares with institutional and other investors. The Placing is not
underwritten.


The Placing is conditional, inter alia, on:-


• the placing agreement having become unconditional in all respects and not
having been terminated in accordance with its terms; and

• the proceeds of the Placing being not less than £950,000 (before
expenses).


The Placing Agreement is conditional, inter alia, on Admission. It is expected
that Admission will become effective and dealings in the New Ordinary Shares
will commence on 9 August 2002.


The Directors are participating in the Placing as follows:


Director No. of Placing Shares


Brian Gowers 400,000

Roger Allsop 400,000

David Rothschild 500,000

Jeffrey Rubins 3,000,000

James Sutherland 10,000


Re Directorate


The Company also announces that, following the decision to make the position of
chief financial officer redundant, Dr Caroline Brown has resigned as a director
with immediate effect.


An Extraordinary General Meeting has been convened, inter alia, to approve the
Placing and a circular containing details of the Placing is to be sent to
shareholders.


Copies of the circular are available, free of charge, during normal business
hours from the offices of Seymour Pierce Limited, 29/30 Cornhill, London EC3V
3NF for at least one month from today.

[kblux] 22/4/2002 15:31

Just moved up again, 2 MM's on 11p 1 on 12p, something has to be going on here given the volume???

[kblux] 22/4/2002 14:06

gorwel, I don't know but had it on my watch list for a week or so having heard a rumour. It would seem that every trade seems to be moving the MM's upwards, yet I didn't think this share was that illiquid. No smoke without fire as they say so just decided to pick up 10k, not many I know but will add when I figure out what's up here. DYOR etc etc.

regards.

[gorwel] 22/4/2002 11:20

Anmyone any idea why this one is up today? On very low volume!

[wakeland] 18/4/2002 18:11

Netcall having a tough week !!

[aggressive saver] 06/3/2002 15:18

Netcall is flying today above their year low. Netcall will double by Friday as the shares are very tightly held and move as fast as Netwindfall which I am in as well.

LONDON (AFX) - Netcall PLC reported a reduction in losses for the first half
to Dec 31 2001 to 1.1 mln stg from 1.4 mln, after charging 0.14 mln in
reorganisation costs.
The group said sales are now quickening of its flagship product,
QueueBuster, which it says enables call centres to manage call queuing, reduce
costs and enhance customer service.
Turnover on continuing operations in the half year increased by 28 pct to
0.44 mln stg from 0.34 mln in 2000 with sales of QueueBuster systems totalling
in excess of 0.22 mln. Gross margins improved to 81.5 pct from 68.4 pct.
Chairman Brian Gowers said the commercial effectiveness of QueueBuster is
proven in the market as evidenced by orders from six customers and eight trials,
compared with only one customer and one trial last year.
"These blue chip sales provide a significant base from which we can
confidently address the 250 mln stg market opportunity for QueueBuster in the
UK," he said.

[ronnie] 08/1/2002 15:22

Niccar

Could you have word in your broker's shell like? Why announce the purchase of 100,000 shares? Does somebody want to get the share price up?

Hmmm.

News from the Motley fool board

Retail dynasty calls back at Netcall

South Africa’s retailing dynasty the Lewis family has taken a small bite of Netcall’s bombed out stock as the call-back software company fires up to expand into their home country, writes Algernon Craig Hall.

The Lewises are best known in South Africa for their success with the Foshini jewellery and clothes retail chain. They have a lower business profile in the UK although they are both active and activist investors over here. Over the past year or so the Lewises' investment vehicles have been linked to corporate actions at Emess (EMSS), Coats (CVY) and most recently larges purchases in Gaucho Grill (GLL).

The Lewises have bought a 100,000-share stake, or 0.3%, in £6.5 million Netcall (NET) through their company Oceana Retail Holdings. This is not the first time the family has invested in the software company. Netcall’s chief executive David Rothschild told Citywire: ‘They invested before - I didn’t think they were still around. It is very nice to see them back… I haven’t spoken to them recently.’

Enthusiasm for Netcall’s original software product, a button on companies’ websites which users could click on if they wanted to receive a telephone call from an assistant, sunk back with the dotcom downturn.

However, big hopes are now pinned on the company’s QueueBuster technology. QueueBuster is call centre software that offers callers waiting in a queue the option of being automatically phoned back when reach the front of the queue instead of enduring eons of enraging muzak and a voice repeatedly telling you how important you are. The company currently has five contracts with large clients such as NPower Yorkshire and Thames Water.

On average each contract is worth £180,000 over its three-year life. Some £100,000 of that comes in the first year and the rest is spread evenly between years two and three.

The company has also recently started four new trials, which it hopes will lead to sales in about six months times. Rothschild told Citywire: ‘We are quietly confident. We maintain a 100% record. Every trial that we have run has turned into a sale. We fully expect these trials to covert into sales… I am very pleased with our reference sites, the matrices [of user satisfaction] are magic, there is no better word for it.’

The £6.5 million company has less than £1 million cash on its books compared with the £1.8 million it had at the end of June – the end of its financial year. Rothschild reckons this is ample and cannot see himself needing more funding unless the business plan changes.

The company is working on adapting its software to be used by smaller call centres but the most likely strategic change is that Netcall will go international. A trial with a South African telecoms company got underway yesterday but Rothschild says he would need money and less good fortune to make serious inroads into the US and Europe.

Results for the six months to the end of 2001, which should be reported in February, are unlikely to be mind blowing. However they should show promise and if the Lewises and Rothschild are right will represent a base from which to launch QueueBuster.

Other shrewd investors backing the software’s prospects include Katie Potts' Herald investment trust (HRI) with a near 6% stake, John Dodd’s recently renamed Hansa investment trust (HAN) with nearly 4% and Bill Brown's AIM investment trust (ATR) with 6.8%.

House broker Seymour Pierce forecasts £1.7 million pre-tax profits by June 2003 following a £530,000 loss this year. Following falls from 2000’s 236p to today’s 17.75p – an improvement on last year’s 9.5p low – the company is valued at just 4.2 times the 2003 prediction.

That looks like very good value if the broker and management are right about the product’s promise but given the company’s size, its dwindling cash pile and the fledgling nature of the new software there is still plenty of risk that things will not pan out as well as hoped.

[ronnie] 08/1/2002 15:17

Niccar

Could you have word in your broker's shell like? Why announce the purchase of 100,000 shares? Does somebody want to get the share price up?

Hmmm.

News from the Motley fool board

Retail dynasty calls back at Netcall

South Africa’s retailing dynasty the Lewis family has taken a small bite of Netcall’s bombed out stock as the call-back software company fires up to expand into their home country, writes Algernon Craig Hall.

The Lewises are best known in South Africa for their success with the Foshini jewellery and clothes retail chain. They have a lower business profile in the UK although they are both active and activist investors over here. Over the past year or so the Lewises' investment vehicles have been linked to corporate actions at Emess (EMSS), Coats (CVY) and most recently larges purchases in Gaucho Grill (GLL).

The Lewises have bought a 100,000-share stake, or 0.3%, in £6.5 million Netcall (NET) through their company Oceana Retail Holdings. This is not the first time the family has invested in the software company. Netcall’s chief executive David Rothschild told Citywire: ‘They invested before - I didn’t think they were still around. It is very nice to see them back… I haven’t spoken to them recently.’

Enthusiasm for Netcall’s original software product, a button on companies’ websites which users could click on if they wanted to receive a telephone call from an assistant, sunk back with the dotcom downturn.

However, big hopes are now pinned on the company’s QueueBuster technology. QueueBuster is call centre software that offers callers waiting in a queue the option of being automatically phoned back when reach the front of the queue instead of enduring eons of enraging muzak and a voice repeatedly telling you how important you are. The company currently has five contracts with large clients such as NPower Yorkshire and Thames Water.

On average each contract is worth £180,000 over its three-year life. Some £100,000 of that comes in the first year and the rest is spread evenly between years two and three.

The company has also recently started four new trials, which it hopes will lead to sales in about six months times. Rothschild told Citywire: ‘We are quietly confident. We maintain a 100% record. Every trial that we have run has turned into a sale. We fully expect these trials to covert into sales… I am very pleased with our reference sites, the matrices [of user satisfaction] are magic, there is no better word for it.’

The £6.5 million company has less than £1 million cash on its books compared with the £1.8 million it had at the end of June – the end of its financial year. Rothschild reckons this is ample and cannot see himself needing more funding unless the business plan changes.

The company is working on adapting its software to be used by smaller call centres but the most likely strategic change is that Netcall will go international. A trial with a South African telecoms company got underway yesterday but Rothschild says he would need money and less good fortune to make serious inroads into the US and Europe.

Results for the six months to the end of 2001, which should be reported in February, are unlikely to be mind blowing. However they should show promise and if the Lewises and Rothschild are right will represent a base from which to launch QueueBuster.

Other shrewd investors backing the software’s prospects include Katie Potts' Herald investment trust (HRI) with a near 6% stake, John Dodd’s recently renamed Hansa investment trust (HAN) with nearly 4% and Bill Brown's AIM investment trust (ATR) with 6.8%.

House broker Seymour Pierce forecasts £1.7 million pre-tax profits by June 2003 following a £530,000 loss this year. Following falls from 2000’s 236p to today’s 17.75p – an improvement on last year’s 9.5p low – the company is valued at just 4.2 times the 2003 prediction.

That looks like very good value if the broker and management are right about the product’s promise but given the company’s size, its dwindling cash pile and the fledgling nature of the new software there is still plenty of risk that things will not pan out as well as hoped.

[wakeland] 03/12/2001 18:43

Fall's 20 % today on just 50,000 shares traded and they won't all be sell's , seem's a bit fierce !!

[niccar] 23/11/2001 14:52

Here we go again Del more bloody questions. All I know is that since you bought the price has stood still!
Take a look at ILM interest picking up, you will probably still get in for 0.85.

[deltrotter] 23/11/2001 14:22

Niccar

I take it you are expecting something to be announced on Monday regarding NET!?

Yet Director wouldn't have bought on 16/11 would he?

Cheers

Del

[ronnie] 23/11/2001 14:04

Hi Niccar

10 out 10 for effort. It's within touching distance of 25p.
25p next week would be nice - I'd get more alerts.

Last Friday, NET were 15 and a laugh - I'm not complaining about 23p.

Market looks yuky.

R.

[niccar] 23/11/2001 13:43

Nice one Ronnie LOL,
25p probably out of reach today due to the general market freefall. Wait for the Monday mark up 25p+ IMO.

[ronnie] 23/11/2001 11:07

Niccar

ER, well, kinda, sort of, perhaps...............

Don't get me wrong, the price increase, I like, I like. I've changed my alerts at three times in the last 2 weeks!! The alerts make for good reading and they much more interesting than the usual insurance/flights/get-rich-schemes which dominate my inbox.

Long may the alerts continue. My simple question is what's the good news? Have NET discovered oil in the office car park in Cambridge? Have they added a cavebuster to the queuebuster range and the US military have ordered hundreds in their pursuit of Bin shaving, Bin tailoring and Bin-reading-the-rough-guide-on-how-to-survive-in Outer-Mongolia?


Ronnie

[deltrotter] 23/11/2001 09:34

Call that a ramp????????????? Crikey. Ionly asked if anyone was watching Net, as it had been rising steadily for the last two weeks.

Did you see the response??? I nearly dumped the lot straight away.

Anyway.

MMs shifting stock at the offer at the mo,

Cheers

Del

[niccar] 23/11/2001 09:30

Yes at 08:26 I believe.

[deltrotter] 23/11/2001 09:28

nope!

Cheers

Del