It seems THE Colt could be on its way back from yet another Year Low .

The stock is now at a very vunerable level at market cap level of only 500million -

My own opinion and that of other investors is great time to tuck away as a recovery from the present lows looks set to start...

What goes down must come up...

France Telecom still looks set to the main bidder though CABLE and Wireless is another contender named...

DYOR AS ALWAYS AND HAVE SAFE INVESTING ON YOUR MIND...jULES99

60-80p is the comeback target...

COLT Was down this morning , but reversing to Positive, short term rally back to 49p is my target this time round. Above 49p would see it hit 55p benchmark level..

Kpatience pays eventually...!

jules99 keep well and have fun...

DYOR..

Also take a good look at ESY (see thread) now today 67p at (year low) despite recent more encouraging customer news and positive trading statements. Should exceed forecasts and outperform sector.

appears to be rowing around 42-44p mark last few days -now at 43p, needs to break past the 45p before spurring north.

Worth the wait - 49p target remains...
jules99

Regulatory Announcement

Go to market news section

Company Colt Telecom Group PLC
TIDM CTM
Headline Holding(s) in Company
Released 11:33 01-Nov-04
Number 6886E



RNS Number:6886E
Colt Telecom Group PLC
01 November 2004


SCHEDULE 10
NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTERESTS IN SHARES


All relevant boxes should be completed in block capital letters.

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1. Name of company 2. Name of shareholder having a major
interest

COLT Telecom Group plc Fidelity International Limited

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3. Please state whether notification 4. Name of the registered holder(s) and, if
indicates that it is in respect of more than one holder, the number of shares
holding of the shareholder named in 2 held by each of them
above or in respect of a non-beneficial
interest or in the case of an
individual holder if it is a holding of
that person's spouse or children under Fidelity International Limited
the age of 18

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5. Number of shares 6. Percentage of 7. Number of shares/ 8. Percentage of
/amount of stock issued class (any amount of stock issued class
acquired treasury shares disposed (any treasury
held by company shares held by
1,000,000 should not be company should
taken into not be taken
account when into account
calculating when calculating
percentage) percentage)

0.066%
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9. Class of security 10. Date of 11. Date company
transaction informed
Ordinary 28th October 2004 29th October
2004
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12. Total holding following this 13. Total percentage holding of issued class
notification following this notification (any
treasury shares held by company should
not be taken into account when
calculating percentage)

105,841,957 7.005%
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14. Any additional information 15. Name of contact and telephone number for
queries

Adrian Goodenough
020 7947 1677
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16. Name and signature of authorised company official
responsible for making this notification
Adrian Goodenough


Date of notification 1st November 2004
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This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

END

Push it up to 50p folks and I might be interested.

proptrade - why Easynet? The price is falling.

Looks cheap now...a medium term hold

could be grand day for COLT today - Dow was up a whopping 177 points...!!

It appears there aren't that many on this board who hold or follow Colt (CTM) - ???

To those not familiar, A while back - I suggested Matalan, Marks and Spencer, and more recently on Moneyam -BB that Compass Group would make a comeback....AND They HAVE..!

A Few Reasons I beleive Colt will also make a major comeback :

-Colt remains financially strong with Cash and liquid resources
of close to 700m

-Consolidation in Sector: Predators such as France Telecom is seeking aquisitions - Colt could be one of it's targets

-Free Cash Flow Positive: Colt remains very much on track to be "free cash flow positive" on a sustainable basis during 2005.

-Leader: Strong Customer Base Industry Leading Customer service

-Turnover: of over 300m a year - (not talking small potatoes...)

-Losses now just reduced to 35m.
-In 2001= -360m
-In 2002= -718.2m
-In 2003= -124.6m
-In 2004= -34.5M...!
-In 2005= ????

-Improving Revenues and Continuous Development of new products

-Has survived the worst periods within the telecom sector 2000-2003 -many companies went bust

-Appointment of Jean Yves Charlier - as President and CEO.

-Recent BUYS of 500,000 and 100,000 shares in the past few weeks suggest further confidence by Directors within.

Furthermore Over Sold and a steal IMHO -but not forever...

You read it first - Jules says ALWAYS DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH FOLKS...

Enjoy the evening...and keep smiling !

JULES99....

recently bought 20 grand of colt,surpising how its moving north,major buys every day...cud double people.mind da language.http://colt

ismf4eel/jj50...at last some feedback...

If you recall Colt : Colt rises on Takeover Hopes-LSE Report/Reuters - June 9th - 2004

Shares in Britains Colt rose to from 66p - 89p on speculation that France Telecom (Paris FR0000133308 news) or Cable n Wireless might be mulling a takeover.

Alternative carriers like COLT (CTM) if a target could well double from here again, market capitalisation is seriously low at these levels, ISM4EEL, you could well see great action if speculation arises again...

The futures bright...thats all i can add..
nite all..
Jules99..

On the Up at long last...
Now 44.75 -45p to buy...

Need to check volumes for further signs of buyers....

colt was positive 2day in a failing market ..if it holds its gains tomorrow,then onwards and upwards....crucially its broken past the 45p barrier,its value is peanuts compared to its peers,commonsense will prevail,theres only so much quality out there..colthttp://colt

Colt rising again with (CABLE wIRELESS) Telecoms Sector in demand again...

Keep watching target to break 49p barrier

colt looks very strong,3 new products launched 2day..
its gonna get consumer confidence back...http://colt

http://www.colt.net/

THE PRESS RELEASE...Keep watching Colt...at present sitting at 47p..


10/11/2004 - Press Release
COLT delivers next stage of innovation with high speed LAN-to-LAN services




New European firsts with ultra-high speed switched Ethernet and IP-over-Ethernet

In line with COLT's commitment to deliver innovative services, outlined in its 'Future in Focus' strategic direction, COLT today (10 November 2004) strengthened its lead in Ethernet networking with three new services that support LAN-to-LAN connectivity across Europe more simply and cost effectively than previously possible.

COLT is first in Europe to offer a meshed Ethernet VPN; an ultra-high speed, feature-rich IP-over-Ethernet service and a hub & spoke solution that extends across cities and countries. These services would not be possible without the extensive, modern fibre network, including last-mile access to the building, which COLT operates across Europe's 32 key business centres.

COLT believes that it is only through developments in Ethernet that the telecoms industry can respond to customers' needs for on-demand applications, data back-up and consolidation of multiple networks. With its ability to facilitate bandwidth upgrades in days rather than weeks, Ethernet is able to link office networks and related data centre facilities together simply and seamlessly in a virtual local area network (LAN) environment - liberating businesses from geographical constraints and providing affordable bandwidth on-demand to support their growing business.

By creating services that put Ethernet at the core of the communications infrastructure, COLT is challenging the more traditional, more expensive, high maintenance wide area networking (WAN) services such as wide leased lines, ATM and frame relay. COLT believes that Ethernet will also relegate IP VPN to a supporting role, serving branch sites, with low bandwidth requirements, in disparate places.

Gartner forecasts business Ethernet services in Western Europe to grow by an average of 48% per year over the next four years as businesses extend their operations and focus on improving business efficiency and risk management.

"Enterprises are looking for more bandwidth to accommodate a general growth in data traffic growth and the convergence of voice and video," explains Neil Rickard, Research VP. "Ethernet offers a cost effective, simple, scalable and flexible solution to meet this demand. Indeed, we see Ethernet as being an important enabler of new IT models such as utility computing, applications services and business process outsourcing."

While it has been possible to extend the speed and simplicity of Ethernet technology into the wide area network on a point-to-point basis, today's announcement makes Ethernet technology available in a virtual network topology, modified quickly and easily to accommodate the addition of new operations, applications and related sites such as data centres.

COLT Switched Ethernet VPN:
Europe's first Switched Ethernet VPN, this service interconnects multiple sites providing any-to-any connectivity over a virtual private network across Europe. With burstable speeds of 300 and 600Mbps to 1Gbps, the service is ideal for connecting large offices and data centres.

COLT Switched Gigabit IP:
Europe's first Gigabit IP over Ethernet service, this managed solution provides routing and managed network features connecting head offices and data centres into a corporate network. It complements an IP VPN by providing a high speed backbone in a very cost effective way on a per megabit per second basis.

COLT LANLink Hub and Spoke:
This point-to-multi-point service combines with COLT's LANLink point-to-point service, aggregating metro, national or international network connections into a single Ethernet hub, at speeds of between 2 to 100Mbps in the spoke and 100Mbps or 1Gbps in the hub. Launched in September, several customers are already benefiting from this advanced technology.

"COLT has leveraged its best-in-class network to create a virtual LAN environment, freeing our customers from the geographical constraints imposed upon them by traditional network technologies," explained Paul David, managing director, products and innovation, COLT. "By extending this simple but effective networking protocol across the wide area, we are able to offer our customers almost unlimited, but affordable, bandwidth on demand so that they can consolidate their networks, establish improved data back-up facilities and centralise their data centres for serving multiple sites, as their business requires."

These services further strengthen COLT's lead in European Ethernet networking. COLT's Ethernet portfolio, made possible because of the breadth and depth of COLT's 32-MAN fibre network and last-mile access, now spans all topologies within a range of bandwidths. COLT's Ethernet portfolio connects directly into its 11 data centres around Europe, giving customers access to the facilities as part of their virtual LAN. The portfolio complements COLT's other services such as IP VPN for connecting disparate sites, based outside the COLT network.


About COLT
COLT Telecom Group plc is a leading pan-European provider of business communications services and solutions. The company owns an integrated 20,000 kilometre network that directly connects approximately 10,000 buildings in 32 major cities in 13 countries and 11 Internet Solution Centres. COLT supplies customers across the full spectrum of industry, service and government sectors with unrivalled end-to-end network security, reliability and service.

COLT Telecom Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange (CTM.L) and NASDAQ (COLT). Information about COLT and its products and services can be found on the web at www.colt.net.

For further editorial information, please contact:
Nicola Porter
COLT Telecom
Tel: + 44 (0) 207 863 5383
Email: nicola.porter@colt-telecom.com

Joanna Lane
Pleon UK (for COLT Telecom)
Tel: + 44 (0) 207 298 7053
Email: jlane@pleon.com

Colt Telecom is charging...

the charge of the colt brigade....cant believe a major news sheet aint tipped it recently,cuz every ones buying into a winner...
what odds on colt reaching 80p by xmas,especially as it launched 3 new products this week ...http://colt

Colt hits 49p this morning...

Appears Very high chance of it knocking past the 50p spot...especially if the other telecoms results are positive this week...

Sector could do well as a result...

Keep watching...
jules99