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Envesta Telecom plc is an AIM listed premium quality alternative telephony provider specialising in the provision of high quality international telephony connections through its wholly owned subsidiary Seven Telecom. With call quality in the UK now taken for granted, the same quality is expected when routing calls around the world, especially where more complex services are required.

Headquartered in London, Envesta owns state of the art infrastructure interconnected with worldwide Tier One carriers such as BT and T Systems. Significant capital investment in Voice over Internet Protocol, ("VoIP") technology where appropriate, has expanded Envesta's technical capabilities, opening up new routes to Africa and Asia at greater margins to the Company. This, along with some of the most sophisticated monitoring capability in the industry, means that Seven Telecom is able to closely monitor and control the business to achieve maximum efficiency and effectiveness.

Cheaper Call Rate
Cheaper Call Rate is the No.1 International calls provider for people who make regular International calls and want to enjoy a high quality service at some of the lowest prices in the market. The unique Cheaper Call Rate service works by replacing the required International number with a 08xx non-geographic number (NGN). On registering, users enter the International number and the service instantly returns a fully authorised OFCOM UK NGN number. This number is then ready to be used immediately, from any registered phone (landline or mobile) in the UK.

The fully automated service works via the Cheaper Call Rate web site, where registered users translated numbers are stored in an online phone directory that, at the click of a button, is ready to be emailed to friends and family, so that everyone can benefit from the same substantial savings, simply by dialling the number.

www.cheapercallrate.com




Interim Results to 31 December 2004
23rd March 2005
Envesta Telecom plc ("Envesta" or the "Company"), the alternative telephony provider, announces interim results for the six months ended 31 December 2004.

Financial highlights:


Group turnover increased to 9,112,207 (2003: 5,241,437), up 74%
Gross profit increased to 2,030,734 (2003: 801,262) an increase of 153%
Underlying Profit before tax* 517,739 (2003: 340,338 loss)
Basic earnings per share of 0.13 pence (2003: 0.14 pence loss)
Shareholder base reduced to more appropriate size
Appointment of new Chairman, Kevin Jauncey
Launch of Cheaper Call Rate international calling service

*Underlying profit is calculated as the reported profit before tax of 403,739 (2003: loss of 299,110) adding back the exceptional operating expenses of 114,000 (2003: nil) and removing other operating income of nil (2003: 41,228)

Commenting on the half year results Kevin Jauncey, Executive Chairman of Envesta Telecom said: "These results demonstrate robust and growing revenues, a return to profitability and a debt free balance sheet. Performance in the year to date, along with our reinforced focus on the wholesale business and the recent move into the retail market with Cheaper Call Rate, has positioned Envesta as a leading supplier in the International Telephony market."

The performance in November and December showed considerable improvement on the previous four months, and I am delighted to say that this improved performance has continued into the second half of the year."

This thread has been formed for discussion about Envesta Telecom and it's products.

Having turned the company around and introduced a new product CheaperCallRate, Envesta is expected to outperform expectations this year.

CheaperCallRate is NOT just a cheap international call company, it is a very diverse product that can be utilised in many sectors.

That is just a repost from the thread header. I suppose that it makes it OK now for me to repost my posts then.

Good evening all. A bit late in joining this new BB. Well done peteark. And doesn't this squelching work a treat.

Here's the proof right from the outset:

Haystack - 24 May'05 - 13:29 - 6 of 168 (Filtered)

Its wonderful m8......however we have more to discuss than those minor distractions.

Hi all, just joined from the other place and have filtered "he who must not be named". I'm looking forward to this being a twat free zone! IvorB

lol

Try this for lists of cheap call operators. Much cheaper than CCR

I must say I like this post from the other side: -


cynical1 - 24 May'05 - 18:45 - 9673 of 9690


Advansuk

I think I am correct that evs has had a recent intraday high of approx 7.2 pence. With the current sp trading around the 4.0 pence level representing an almost 45% retracement I think that your constant defensive of this company on these bb's is far more detrimental to small investors than the likes of the so called "de-rampers". Understandably you are very emotionally involved in evs as you have your own cash riding on it (something I would guess the "de-rampers" do not) but I wonder at what point will you stop yourself out?

As much as ccr is a great product I imagine the majority of evs revenue is still in the highly competitive low margin wholesale business and this is what will drive the sp. Who knows? However I do know that over the past month I would be a richer man listening to Haystack than yourself.

As an unbiased "lurker" on these bb's most of the abuse I have seen has been aimed at the likes of haystack no doubt stemming from bitterness caused by a falling sp.

For the record I believe evs is a great company led by a highly skilled bunch but I have no idea where the sp is going.

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Haystack - 24 May'05 - 22:41 - 174 of 174 (Filtered

Looks pretty twat free to me Ivor!

CCR have an uphill battle to gain any serious market share. Even AOL are now offering a service for 7.99/month and you get to call all UK landlines for free. This is just one of dozens of special deals that will be coming out very soon. This is a cut throat businss with margins getting tighter all the time. The very ease of use of the CCR service is also its potential downfall. You can switch away from CCR at a moment's notice.

Dear AOL Member,

We've got some great news for you. As part of our commitment to deliver the best value to our members, we are delighted to announce the launch of AOL Talk, our new home phone service.

AOL is extending the unlimited philosophy that we apply to our Internet services to our new home phone service. AOL Talk allows you to make unlimited phone calls to UK landline numbers for 7.99 per month and is only available to AOL members.

Even calling cards is not such a good business any more. I see 5 calling cards on sale for 3-50 or three for 9-25 in newsagents shops everywhere now. I have even seen a few doing them at 3 each. The margins for the orginator of the calling cards is now tiny. Out of that 5 card for 3 has to come the profit for the newsagent and the carrier. What was a good business over the last couple of years is now this year much more competitive.

The market for IP services to corporations is now much more difficult. BT alone are now huge providers of VoIP to companies. It was two years ago now that BT converted the whole of Abbey's branch network telephone system to VoIP. In the long term it will be the major carriers that survive and not the small players like EVS.

Well, this is hilarious! Haystack has now become my new email pal!

Obviously the filter system is kicking in nicely and it seems to be the way forward in ridding the BB of unwanted problems. (ALTHOUGH HE IS EMAILING ME DIRECT)

I have pre-warned Moneyam that Haystack will probably start posting here and I am aware that somebody has sent a recent post he made promising his annoyance on all threads that Annbar has investments in.

This whole situation is not acceptable and everybody should email suggestions that the thread creator should be allowed to filter premium members who antagonise BB's.

Hopefully this will one day be implemented.

Meanwhile I look forward to everybody building this thread into one as good as we all had on the other side!

LOL

Now that is really funny.

EVS has long since dropped out of its uptrend and is now making tracks for lower pastures. My targets are 3p short term and 2p later on. With the increased pressure on margins, it is difficult to see how EVS can maintain their current levels of profitability.

advans
Unfortunately your definition of annoying is to post negative views on a stock. I am sure you would be much happier running this as a fan club for EVS.

The BBC2 program about VoIP last Friday was interesting but only scratched the surface. It covered Skype, which I think is a bit of a novelty but also Vonage which is more of a serious provider. There are dozens like that around. You don't even need a call provider to use VoIP. If you have a downloadable soft phone or an IP phone then you can connect for free is you know the IP address of the other person. The call operators effectively give your IP address a phone number. I could give you a huge list of VoIP operators that can be used from your PC or with an ATA adaptor you can use your own normal phone over broadband without a PC. This is a very dificult market to make money in long term. Small cut price call shops like EVS/CCR will find life gets tougher over the next year as major carriers eat into their business.

Advan, sorry to hear you have not been well of late, hope you are better before you go on your break.

This thread looks great with all the...

"Haystack - 25 May'05 - 00:06 - 182 of 182 (Filtered)"

...plastered all over the place.

However, Insiderinsider does seem to have a point when he suggests that EVS will be stuck around 3.5p to 4.5p without news to confirm that things are progressing in a possitive manner.

I feel that all we can do at this point in time is just sit tight with our investments and wait for the inevitable (as far as I'm concerned) possitive update from EVS.