(OFEX Listed). Warning not for widows and orphans.

Market Cap Circa 650,000, SP 10.25p.

Ashpool Telecolm as been a dog of a stock since the days of the Dot Com Era, but just lately that as all changed and the company as prudently with sound management backing, broken into profit for the year. Its biggest attraction is its VOIP Software Business, but this company is certainly not a one trick pony and boasts a big percentage share in Command TV(23.75%) which can boast shows like the X FACTOR and QUIZMANIA now showing on ITV every evening.

I would have brought this stock to the boards attention a month earlier but a stock overhang was holding the stock SP back. Today that overhang as cleared and it now creates an opportunity to buy into what I beleive will be an excelent growth story (the stock looks way undervalued and as no debt) with the added benefits of a strong Ofex market with far more liquidity due to more Market Makers.

Please Dyor. Here is the link with the OFEX board.

http://www.ofex.com/index.shtml

cheers GF.

Moved up again 15.25p now.

cheers Gf.

Lifted from another board thanks to P Hippey.

Present p/e (annualised) is just 6 (@ 15.25p)

But this isn't a stock to be valued by p/e alone.


You should take into account the investments

Command TV 23.75% cost 50

Also Evopay has I think been viirtually written off but now appears to have some value

Also you should consider how many further successful investments can be spun out for 50 or 100

They have acheived millions of pounds on these sort of investments before, sadly got interuppted by 9/11 & the telecom bubble, but it looks like green shoots are just starting again.

Nudged up again 15.5p now, P/E only 6 and a big stake in Command TV which services The X Factor and Quizmania.

cheers GF.

And up we go again, now 16.5p and derd cheap with an annulised P/E of only 6. Plenty left for those who want to open a ofex dealing account.

Try Jarvis or the Share Centre.

cheers GF.

A tip update from the tips.com stable...

Full steam ahead for Ashpool as overhang clears

We were encouraged today to discover that the overhang that has plagued the shares in Ashpool Telecom had cleared. Furthermore, news that serial entrepreneur and multi-millionaire investor, Justin Bryam Shaw had joined the shareholder list with a buy of 539,548 shares, representing 7.94% of the issued share capital is another plus point. Interest in Ashpool is clearly increasing and with the founder shareholder of the Poker channel taking a stake at the same time as the business ramps up sales, the shares continue to look very cheap indeed.

Recently, Ashpool Telecom unveiled a respectable set of full year numbers, turning an interim loss of 37,838 into a full year profit of 41,278 on revenues of 283,724. The dramatically improved performance arrived on the back of an upturn in equipment sales and the increased emphasis on the development of service and support revenues over the course of recent years. An upbeat full year statement, in which head honcho and major shareholder, Neil Newell told investors that he anticipated continued growth in revenue arising from services and support.

Investors are getting particularly excited about Ashpool's circa 23% stake in Command TV. The business provides services to popular TV shows including the X Factor series and Quizmania. With the Times reporting today that ITV wants to turn viewers into game show contestants following the success of its Quizmania programme, it looks like the future is very bright indeed for Command TV. Ashpool continues to both work with and provide technical service to the company, and hopes to see significant growth over the coming year. Meanwhile, Click Solutions.net, a further business in which Ashpool holds a stake, has also recently obtained additional business, at a modest level but anticipated to provide sufficient revenues to meet costs over the coming year. In short, it all looks very good indeed.

With the overhang now out of the way and with a raft of positive developments in the pipeline, coupled with the general progress that was reported at the full year stage, the share price prospects continue to look very attractive indeed. "Buy".

cheers GF.

Buyers moving in, ticked up to 17.25p now.

cheers GF.

A related article....

FremantleMedia scores success with The X Factor

(Thursday, Jan 19, 2006 - 06:00 am)
Televisionpoint.com Team

FremantleMedia Licensing Worldwide, the licensing division of FremantleMedia, one of the largest international creators and producers of programme brands in the world, said that the success of the second series of The X Factor across multiple media platforms including wireless, internet, interactive TV, consumer products and events. The show, which launched in August, was a massive ratings success for ITV, was voted the most popular entertainment programme of 2005 at the National Television Awards and has broken records in the UK for voting and internet downloads.

Capitalising on the success of last year's branded wireless offerings, FLW licensed mobile phone video and non-video content directly to four leading mobile phone networks, Orange, T-Mobile, O2 and 3. These deals granted the networks a package of mobile content rights including video, games and branded wallpapers. Additionally, FLW brokered a deal with ITV which saw The X Factor as the first programme brand to be launched on ITV's Mobile Portal, allowing fans to receive news and to take part in competitions, games and quizzes.

The official The X Factor website, designed by FLW and built by @www, received on average 26,000 visitors per day, with over 2.4 million unique users visiting the site throughout the duration of the series. The website offered mobile phone downloads such as SMS and MMS news and gossip updates, an exclusively created Java game and a mobile phone video portal which allowed viewers to access behind-the-scenes footage and to enter the 'Flex the X' competition. The X Factor message board was the most popular ever associated with any programme that has aired on ITV with an average of 12,000 posts per week during the course of the live shows. Fans can still buy The X Factor merchandise, including branded apparel, mugs and keychains, from the online shop provided by Event Merchandising.

Fans were able to continue interacting with the show 24/7 via interactive TV applications on both Sky digital and NTL digital cable, including the chance to take part in live polls and text their opinions to screen on The Xtra Factor. More than one million entries were registered over the series for the chance to win weekly cash prizes and 'money can't buy' series prizes - a VIP make-over trip to London and a slice of Sharon Osbourne's lifestyle including a shopping trip to the South of France and a sports car.

And even though the second series has now finished, fans can still re-create and enjoy The X Factor experience in their own homes. The X Factor Sing interactive game (Lago Srl) launched on PlayStation 2 and PC in October, while branded karaoke software with a range of DVD and CD and Graphics (Sing To The World) and five karaoke hardware product lines (Acoustic Solutions) also launched last autumn. The X Factor product ranges are available in retail outlets such as Comet, Tesco and Argos: Comet promoted The X Factor products in the run-up to Christmas by providing three branded bays in all 260 stores; Argos offered consumers the chance to win tickets to The X Factor Live Tour 2006 via in-pack promotions, the Argos website, which received three million visits per week in December, and via their December sales flyer.

Madame Tussauds, one of the world's leading visitor attractions, also hosted an interactive attraction in London based on the hit TV show. Fans were invited to take to the specially-created stage and participate in The X Factor experience for themselves in front of waxwork judges Simon Cowell, Sharon Osbourne and Louis Walsh and receive comments on their performance.

An amazing 9.9 million people tuned in to see Shayne Ward walk away with a 1 million Sony BMG recording contract. Over the course of the series, The X Factor rated the highest in its slot for the key commercial demographic (16-34-year-olds), winning a 54% share, an incredible 125% above ITV1's slot average; in total, the series was watched by 40 million people in the UK with a reach of 72%. The Xtra Factor was the highest rated entertainment show on ITV2, beating the slot average by 85% for all individuals. A massive 10.8 million votes were cast during the live finale alone, with SMS, red button and fixed line voting services managed by specialist provider Harvest Media Group (HMG). The task of aggregating all of the vote feeds was effectively managed with HMGs 'Dataconcentrator', which was introduced this year. Mobile Interactive Group's voting platform, 'Votewinner', smashed the high-speed SMS delivery record with over 1,300 messages processed per second.

Dom Wheeler, Vice President, Licensing, UK, FremantleMedia Licensing Worldwide, said: "The second series of The X Factor has been an even bigger success than the first with more fans enjoying even more exciting and innovative ways and platforms to engage with the show. We are really delighted with the uptake of our offerings and the fans' incessant enthusiasm which has helped make the show an unmitigated success all round."

In an exclusive, first of its kind deal, FLW partnered with Syco Music and Sony BMG to make Shayne Ward's debut single, 'That's My Goal', available for download over the internet on the night of The X Factor finale, three days before its retail release. The single, which topped the Christmas charts, was one of the biggest selling singles of 2005 with over one million copies shipped and has entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the fastest selling download in world history with over 100,000 downloads to date.

Nokia, the world leader in mobile communications, was the main on and off-air sponsor of The X Factor for a second consecutive year. The X Factor is produced by Thames Television, one of the UK production companies owned by FremantleMedia and Syco for ITV.

Meanwhile, Fremantle Media, a large international creator and producers of TV shows, has signed up with mobile2win to produce mobile content centred around the show. Mobile2win is a mobile content provider in which Siemens, SoftBank and India-based contest2win have equal stakes.

cheers GF.

Up to a new high of 17.5p this morning. Still very cheap on a anualised P/E of just over 6.

cheers GF.

And up again to 17.75p on potential news of MMs wanting stock.......

Ashpool Telecom plc - Issue of Equity


ASHPOOL TELECOM PLC


ISSUE OF EQUITY 23/01/2006

The Directors of Ashpool Telecom Plc announce the issue of 50,000 Ordinary
shares at 17 pence per share on Friday 20 January 2006 in order to satisfy
market demand. Following the issue of these shares there are 6,847,900 shares
in issue.

The Directors of the issuer accept responsibility for this announcement.

cheers GF.

Last nights Update from the tips.com stable.

Demand for Ashpool shares continues

The issue of a further 50,000 new shares in Ashpool on Friday says it all really. There just ain't enough stock to go around. The shares have shot ahead following the company's move into profitability, progress with its CommandTV stake and news that its overhang had cleared. Furthermore, revelations that serial entrepreneur and multi-millionaire investor, Justin Bryam Shaw had joined the shareholder list with a purchase of 539,548 shares, representing 7.94% of the issued share capital provides another focus point for increased optimism. Interest in Ashpool is clearly increasing and with the founder shareholder of the Poker channel taking a stake at the same time as the business ramps up sales, the shares continue to look very cheap indeed.

Having recently unveiled a respectable set of full year numbers, turning an interim loss of 37,838 into a full year profit of 41,278 on revenues of 283,724; Ashpool has effectively completed a self-help course, turning sentiment around by turning its performance around. The dramatically improved results arrived on the back of an upturn in equipment sales and the increased emphasis on the development of service and support revenues over the course of recent years. An upbeat full year statement, in which head honcho and major shareholder, Neil Newell told investors that he anticipated continued growth in revenue arising from services and support.

Today's news that Ashpool had issued 50,000 shares at 17p was particularly interesting as unlike other OFEX companies, it appears the CEO of this one was not interested in releasing any of his own shares to satisfy the market maker's liquidity demands. Meanwhile, investors are getting particularly excited about Ashpool's circa 23% stake in Command TV. The business provides services to popular TV shows including the X Factor series and Quizmania. Ashpool continues to both work with and provide technical services to the company, and hopes to see significant growth over the coming year. With the overhang now out of the way and with a raft of positive developments in the pipeline, coupled with the general progress that was reported at the full year stage, the share price prospects continue to look very attractive indeed. At 17.75p, a profitable growth technology business in exciting markets should be capitalised at considerably more than 1.14 million. "Buy".


cheers GF.

Just moved up, could be this.........

Nice write up by PNC about Command TV

http://www.pnc-media.com/interactive.php

Follow the links on the link for video & sound.

http://www.quiztelly.com/forum/showthread.php?t=950

Moving up again, dont miss out. Annualised P/E of only 7, derd cheap.

cheers GF.

This is a good sign...

Ashpool Telecom plc - Directors Shareholding


ASHPOOL TELECOM PLC
F1, Worth Corner
Turners Hill Road, Pound Hill
Crawley
West Sussex
RH10 7SL
Tel: 01293 885222
Fax: 01293 887111
Email: contact@ashpool-telecom.com
Website: www.ashpool-telecom.com


ASHPOOL TELECOM PLC ("THE COMPANY")

DIRECTORS SHAREHOLDING 14/02/2006

Ashpool Telecom Plc announces that it has been informed that 10,000 ordinary
shares in the Company were purchased on 13/02/2006 by Scott Fletcher at the
price of 17.5p and a further 97,500 ordinary shares at 17.4p today bringing his
total shareholding in the Company to 307,500 shares.

As a result of these purchases Scott Fletcher's total beneficial shareholding
has increased to 307,500 and his percentage ownership of the ordinary shares of
the Company is 4.5%.

The Directors of the Issuer accept responsibility for this announcement.

Contact Details:

Ashpool Telecom Plc: Chris Aitken
Tel: 01293 885222
St Helen's Capital: Barry Hocken
Tel: 020 7628 5582

Further information on the Company is available on its website, www.ashpool-
telecom.com

cheers GF.

Moving up to new 52 week highs.

cheers GF.

And moved up 20% today.

A lot more to come I feel.

cheers GF.

gf
have dipped toe in water w a few, sounds promising and graph looks good. however i'm a bit blind on this one- haven't looked up an. report- what are your projected earnings and sp

Hi ddoc, I never try to place a projected Sp or earnings on a stock, I usually leave that up to the market. (other than forecast earnings).

I went into this one for two reasons,

1. it had moved into profit for the first time after the dot com days and its main offering was voip software rather than hardware,

2. it has a big % holding in command TV, which amongst others helps the technical side in shows like the X Factor and Quizmania which by all accounts is booming.

For a more indepth look at what the Ofex experts are saying about this one, I have provided a link to their specialist site, it makes for excelent reading and research, takes about 30 secs to sign up. Cheers GF.

http://www.finfoex.com/forum/index.php

Forgot to mention aswell, we are well up on the day at the moment, I make that around 120% gain since posting on here. Better than a kick in the teeth. I feel theres far more in it as investors catch on.

cheers GF.

many thanks for info. i have avoided techies since fingers burnt in the post dot com crash, tho' have a small holding in Intec and in and out of tfc. however am mainly into eploratory mining stocks. chp and cey providing most joy at present.
your postings attracted me to ashpool and low Mkt cap and break out over recent month made me impulsive. downside seem to be the illiquid nature of trading and lack of news tho' i will look at your link. once again thanx for the info and updates