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...

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

I think it will past 50p now...jules99....looks cheap now

Another attempt by Colt now to surpass the breaking point of 48/49p...

Third time lucky...Voda and Thus results should assist...

i think you`d expect some some profit taking after 2 good weeks,encouraginly it closed only 1 pence down after it went under 46 at some point.....
know the sellers are out of the way,it will go past 50 phttp://colt

Very tempted to buy but according to my friend who knows communication industry colt is finding very hard to compete with small companies.

Even in a competitve industry a stock can be oversold and undervalued...
Oversold is for sure, and a rerate is also due, the anaysts will pickup on this as always...

Marconi
mmo2
voda
thus

all up this week...!

Little movement on COLT this am, Bought some fresh stock in order to take advantage of low levels at 46.5 for long term investment, reason being Telecoms have are back in favour Ifresults from this weeks reports are to go by...Sticking with this one..

Enjoy Weekend.. Jules99...


dyor AS ALWAYS...

Searched Net for articles on Net...Some positive Insights to report -

Colt Last Tipped in the Gaurdian at 41.5p, as Oversold, have a long way to go as Coltsters long ans short term know -

Shares closed on Friday at 46.75p, no movement, whilst rest of market rattled upwards...IF history is to be followed then a few weeks back a similiar trend occured, whilst the General Index/Markets rattled Up, strongly, Colt Tel remained unchanged at 42p give a take 0.5p, When the Ftse retreated, What happened was Colt Telecom "Surged upwards"...! - Analysts noted Investors were trailing after "value" in the market...As the Colt has not gained (actually went into profit taking) last week at all, it may surge forward this week as an oversold and Under valued Stock...break past 49p is needed 49p - 57p....


HAPPY TO HOLD AS HISTORY COULD REPEAT ITSELF THIS WEEK... DYOR....stay happy Jules99.


Reuters
Tuesday September 14, 2004
The Guardian

The corporate services company, Colt Telecom, has reorganised and beefed up its management in order to boost revenues two months after a profits warning, sending its stock surging upwards yesterday.
Colt said it would set up four business areas - Britain, France, Germany and Strategic Markets, which comprises 10 European markets - merge its sales and marketing arm, set up an innovation and products unit, appoint three new managers and reshuffle other top posts.

"These changes are designed to provide the company with a world class leadership team and strongly position Colt for long-term revenue growth," said chief executive Jean-Yves Charlier.

Colt's stock, which almost halved after the group warned in July that second-quarter trading had been tougher than expected and margins were under pressure, leapt 10% to 49.25p.

Other:

The analysts mention that the company has achieved the preferred supplier status with all its customers. COLT Telecoms objective is to increase its share of the current customer telecom spending.

The analysts mention that Colt Telecoms financial position is stable, with the 850 million in cash reserves.The analysts believe that the company is attractively positioned to benefit from the increase in corporate spending, expected in 2004/5


What's new at COLT? Check out this section frequently to get the latest.

COLT announces roadmap for profitable growth

COLT reveals new strategic direction - "Future in Focus" which will accelerate revenue growth, deliver positive cash flow and profits and re-establish the company as an innovator and as one of the top three players in each of the metropolitan markets in which it operates across Europe. >more



COLT SecureIT 'inspires first customer with hassle-free, secure, affordable service

In line with "Future in Focus" COLT launches SecureIT for small and medium sized organisations, in the first in a portfolio of services to extend COLT's IP management services to the local area network and desktop environment. >more



COLT announces Q3 2004 quarterly results

".......COLTs underlying financial position remains strong: losses are reducing and we have taken action to reduce interest payments through the early redemption of some of our bonds, reflecting our confidence in the future." >more



COLT wins WCA Best Customer Care award for fourth consecutive year

For the fourth year running, we are pleased to announce that COLT has won the World Communication Awards highly prestigious Best Customer Care award.

The judging panel said: COLT's customer comments are really powerful testimony to the efforts the company has made to maintain its leadership in customer care. COLT puts customers first - it is as simple as that. The company has continued to invest in facilities to improve customer service, right across its network." >more

COLT manages global voice services for Bosch Security Systems in France

COLT has been chosen by Bosch Security Systems to provide voice services for the companys global operations, from standard phone traffic and intelligent network services. Read more about COLT Voice Services.

COLT and Intrada celebrate three years of partnership

COLT and Intrada, the classical music label, have celebrated three years of partnership with the release of a CD tribute to the works of Georg Friedrich Handel, played by the Armenian pianist Vahan Mardirossian. >more

Growth Comet of the Year

It's official: COLT Denmark is the fastest growing company in the Danish IT market.COLT Denmark has been awarded the title of "Growth Comet of the Year" by ComputerWorld, justified by a 157% revenue growth from 2002 to 2003.

More secure than ever

COLT has achieved BS7799 accreditation all European Internet Solution Centres and the COLT customer European network monitoring, management and support services. >more

Pan-European marketing and customer service made easier

Organising pan-European customer service and marketing campaigns carries a significant administrative overhead, if you are using multiple telecoms operators to provide multiple response numbers. More than 100 businesses have cut out this overhead during the past two years with COLT International IN Services. Conferencing specialist Genesys is one, and it says it can now offer more competitive services. >more

Storage for competitive advantage

Data storage per megabyte is now so cheap that it would be almost free if it weren't for an explosion in the amount of data we want to have available. Per Andersen, Managing Director of the analysis bureau IDC Nordic, says: An analysis by the University of Berkeley has shown that the amount of information created in the past two years is greater than the information created in the preceding 1000 years." >more

COLT launches high-speed wide area network solution at land area network prices

What do we mean by switch-based CPE Solutions? It means we own and manage a business'customer premises equipment (CPE). It means we can provide network connectivity up to 1Gbps and typically reduce customers' total cost of ownership by up to 20 per cent. It means you have a networking solution that is tailored to your specific requirements, but managed by a third party: it is built from their premises outwards, whereas they would usually have to buy a network-based service themselves and build a solution around it. >more

The pros and cons of the virtual network operator (VNO) - which is right for your business?

You know you want an IP VPN to enable your employees to access your network from anywhere, but unravelling the complex world of network providers is proving a bit daunting. A number of network-provider models now exist, but how do you choose which model is right for your business? Dr Daryl Szebesta of COLT Telecom demystifies the jargon, breaks down the critical differences between the network owner versus the virtual network operator (VNO), and provides practical advice on what to look for in your network provider. >more

COLT identified as most competitive wholesale data carrier in Europe

A recent survey analysis published by BroadGroup, the telecoms consultancy titled Where next in wholesale? The profit challenge for voice and data has named COLT as 'the most competitive carrier in Europe' for wholesale data. BroadGroup has found that 'wholesale has reached a transformational point, the impact of which will be similar to the emergence of refile following liberalisation in the US and other OECD countries.'

6 month and 1 year charts of ctm - Breakout point quite obvious - third time lucky hopefully patience has been required so far...

sorry clicked on post reply by accident...hence 2 mails..


CTM appears to be hovering last few days now between 45p-49p (10.5%), perhaps time to pick a few more up on the downside just for short term gain, will make mind up in the morning....

A CTM Trading update at Dec-end could prove useful for all...

however time for kip now I reckons...

zzzz....zzz...z...Jules99.....

i for 1 picked up sum colt 2day at 45..gotta be a bargain

yes i'm in to see it go over 50