Spectrum Interactive Share Discussion Threads

[the big fella] 24/12/2007 10:43

Pete

Merry Christmas to you - and best wishes for a prosperous 08.

Regards

Brian

[outsider] 24/12/2007 10:34

20,000 buy & 50,000 buy this am & the buy size reduced to 25k from 50k also increased to 12.8p to buy from 12.5p.

[outsider] 21/12/2007 19:39

From AOL Airport Staff back strikes.>>>

Workers at airports including Heathrow and Gatwick are to stage a series of strikes in the New Year, spelling travel chaos for passengers.

Workers including firefighters will walk out at 6am on January 7 for 24 hours, at 6am on January 14 for 24 hours and at 6am on January 17 for 48 hours.

The strikes are in protest at the closure of the final salary pension scheme for new workers at airports operator BAA.

The union said the strike would cause huge disruption and could even close the airports involved - Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Southampton, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Workers involved in the industrial action include firefighters, maintenance and security staff and clerical workers.

The strikes follow a vote in favour of industrial action by 1,946 members of the Unite Union, with 1,108 voting against.

National Officer Brendan Gold said: "This is a 2-1 vote for strike action which is a powerful mandate and a strong message to BAA to think again."

Mr Gold told a news conference in London he believed the strikes would close all seven airports. He admitted this would cause a "huge amount of disruption" to travellers but he accused BAA of not doing enough to resolve the row.

"I am astonished and amazed at the way BAA has refused to tackle this issue. BAA has just posted profits of over £500 million and the Spanish owners Ferrovial have seen their profits rise by nearly 60%.

"It is clear that our members' pension scheme is financially sound and should be left alone.

"After a series of fruitless meetings with the company our members have been left with no option but to resort to industrial action to defend their interests."

[outsider] 21/12/2007 11:06

Eiffel

This may have dropped the SP:



Airport strike ballot result due
Stansted Airport
Stansted could be one of the airports affected by strike action
The result of a vote that could lead to strikes at some of the UK's busiest airports is to be announced.

Leaders of trade union Unite are confident that the vote will give them a mandate to call a strike.

Industrial action could start as soon as 28 December but may be delayed until after the Christmas holiday period.

On Thursday, cabin crew at Virgin Atlantic announced they would be calling two 48-hour strikes in January in a dispute over pay.

The dispute at BAA, which operates seven UK airports including Heathrow and Gatwick, is about the closure of the final salary pension scheme to new employees.

'Financially sound'

Union members involved include firefighters and security staff, without whom the airports cannot operate.

Unite national officer Brendan Gold said: "BAA has just posted profits of over £500m and the Spanish owners Ferrovial have seen their profits rise by nearly 60%.

"It is clear that the pension scheme is financially sound, and should be left alone."

Unite represents 5,000 airport workers employed by BAA.

As well as Heathrow and Gatwick, BAA operates Stansted, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Southampton.

'Detailed assurances'

A BAA spokesman said: "BAA has given clear and unequivocal assurances that existing employees will not be affected by the end of the final salary pension scheme and that its replacement for new employees will be of the highest quality.

"During the past few weeks we have offered to give more detailed assurances to union representatives.

"We believe the way to resolve this is through negotiation."

The result of the ballot comes a day after cabin crew at Virgin Atlantic voted for industrial action in a separate row over pay.

Two 48-hour strikes have been pencilled in for 9 January and 16 January.

Virgin Atlantic chief executive Steve Ridgway said: "It is surprising that Unite has taken this step of calling action when they had previously helped to put together the deal and strongly recommended that its members accept it."

[stockscreeners] 21/12/2007 05:04

neither, he used a button instead.

[outsider] 21/12/2007 03:44

& what did Jim do? Use 50c or 1 pound?


No need to reply !!!

[egoi] 20/12/2007 15:19

Am sitting at a SIN machine next to an engineer. Did you know if you put in a 50cent euro piece, you get £1 credit - on all machines. They know of the problem but at the moment it is a 'work in progress'!

[outsider] 20/12/2007 11:52

I guess some were hoping of an aquisition to boost earnings, and it's now not materialised.

[eiffel] 20/12/2007 11:50

Out*

does this explain the drop in the sp?

[outsider] 20/12/2007 10:36

Spectrum Interactive PLC
20 December 2007


SPECTRUM INTERACTIVE PLC
('Spectrum' or the 'Company')

Update

Spectrum Interactive plc (SIN:LN), the public internet and payphone operator,
announced on 21st September 2007 that it was looking at a number of acquisition
opportunities and was in advanced discussions with one such company. Accordingly
it held an extraordinary general meeting in order to increase the authorised
share capital and to increase the directors' authorisations to allot shares. The
Company would now like to announce that whilst it continues to look for
acquisition opportunities, discussions concerning the particular opportunity
referred to above are no longer taking place.

Spectrum Interactive plc [phone]
Mark Lewarne, Chief Executive Officer
Phillip Congdon, Chief Financial Officer

Citigate Dewe Rogerson [phone]
Sarah Gestetner / George Cazenove

Seymour Pierce [phone]
Mark Percy

[outsider] 13/12/2007 12:00

No probs Kenny.

Changed a little on qty's here you can sell 10,000 (14p)& buy 50,000 below bid (15.4) online.

[tenapen] 13/12/2007 11:34

Thanks Outsider for the above link,

Why give google all the search money ?

Pick your own charity from their list of hundreds and everytime you search using 'everyclick.com' you raise money for the charity of your choice.
If you ever think it takes away from the thread Outsider or the other users of this thread, please just delete it,
CHEERS,
:-)

[eiffel] 10/12/2007 09:35

sorry a tick up not a stick,a typo - you know what its like, the excitement


:0)

[eiffel] 10/12/2007 09:32

morning all!

Good to see a stick back up!

[battlebus] 06/12/2007 21:35

Those sells i think kept the spread close seems like a larger sell order being sold in pieces.Upward again if that's the lot.

[outsider] 06/12/2007 20:54

Like you I agree it held up well, all sells soaked up.Also Interest rste cut helps SIN.

[battlebus] 06/12/2007 20:27

Outsider any views on the spat of sells today. It shows how well placed the company is to hold the price steady.

[outsider] 05/12/2007 15:17

and sell 25000

[outsider] 05/12/2007 15:16

Not much stock online, you can only buy 5000

[rochdale] 05/12/2007 12:02

still waiting in the wings on this one - but getting nearer to dipping my toe in

[outsider] 04/12/2007 11:28

Ah I see how you missed it now, the monitor shows no 'A' often hapens on ADVFN with SIN for some reason.

[outsider] 04/12/2007 11:24

Happy to do so, assuming the contract starts Jan, that's Birmingham airport tied up till 2013, BAA till 2011, & wi-fi with Travelodge till 2014. This all reduces risk & enhances prospects for Spectrum, maybe a few short term traders have sold, but medium/long term holders could do very well......Furthermore all these contract wins for longer periods endorses the Spectrum customer service & reliabilty.....obviously strong working relationships have developed.

[eiffel] 04/12/2007 11:07

Out*,

You made my day - thanks for the contract update

:0)

[outsider] 04/12/2007 10:49

Also looks like Wi-fi is doing so well, they have now a new division: WiFiSpectrum.

[outsider] 04/12/2007 10:48

Just got in (early evening here in Asia)......surprised to see red, but bid is the same 14.5p.....and another contract win announced:






Spectrum awarded Birmingham International Airport five year deal for
Internet Desks and WiFi services

Spectrum Interactive are pleased to announce the award of a new five
year contract for Internet Desks and WiFi throughout Birmingham
International Airport.

The new contract extends Spectrum's contractual relationship with the
airport, where Spectrum have operated Internet Desks for more than
six years. The contract also awards the airport's public WiFi
services to Spectrum, which will be operated under the new product
name of WiFiSpectrum.

Ray Savage Head of Market Development - Commercial for Birmingham
International Airport said, "We want to congratulate the Spectrum
Interactive teams on a job well done. We have worked with Spectrum
for a number of years, and we are all pleased that our relationship
continues to go from strength to strength."

Daniel Gray, Head of Marketing added, "this is a significant contract
and reinforces Spectrum's position as the UK's market leader for
public internet access at UK Airports. The standards that Spectrum
has maintained across the previous two contracts at Birmingham has
clearly helped us to win this five year deal - we look forward to
continuing to develop our business with Birmingham International
Airport


ABOUT SPECTRUM INTERACTIVE
Spectrum Interactive plc
Daniel Gray, Head of Marketing & Product Innovation
[phone]

Seymour Pierce
Mark Percy
[phone]