Hey optimitic,holding thumbs here too!!!!,i have found your comments MOST encouraging.

capetown, I do hope my 'encouraging' comments prove to be on target.
regards
opto (easier pseudonym must change sometime)

May 9, 2005 - THUS plc today announced that it has won a new contract with
Standard Life to supply and manage its voice and data communications network.
The deal, which is worth more than five million pounds, will see THUS deliver a
range of solutions including a number of high speed ISDN circuits to the ten
sites that constitute Standard Life's Head Office Network in Edinburgh. These
lines will handle both inbound and outbound traffic to Standard Life in the UK
and the rest of the world.

et. etc. etc.... Should help the sp move upward. :-)

Looked to me as though there was a large forced seller on friday. Some news appeared about large margin calls over the w/e and forced selling of other positions as a result.

Might see that GS have counter hedged their long position by selling shares.

On the other hand could always be CVC topping up further.

CVC now hold 140,000,000 shares........... 10.38%

So CVC topped up then!

Just the odd 28.8 million! I find it incredible that the share price is glued down to this level with this sort of interest in THUS by a company in a similar field of operations. IMO THUS shares should be in excess of 20p if only for the speculation interest at the present time and looking to the region of 30p on a bid.......... Ah well here's hoping.

Indianna and optomistic,it is INCREDIBLE that the sp is still 13pence,unlucky number for some!!,heres hoping!!!

That's the power of short positions.
It will move when they start to close. QXL is a good example from 20 to 31 in two days.. I think MS sold a couple of 100k shares at 150p

This from the Scotsman on Sunday

Sun 22 May 2005



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Thus shares buoyed by merger talk

TERRY MURDEN
BUSINESS EDITOR


THUS, the Scottish alternative telecoms carrier, is expected to announce this week that trading remains tough as analysts await potential bid action.

With the squeeze on pricing and margins showing little sign of easing, the company is nonetheless generating cash and has become a target for Columbia Ventures, a US private equity company.

Columbia has built up a 10.4% stake to become the single biggest shareholder in the company. Ken Peterson, chief executive, told Scotland on Sunday last month he wanted to combine Thus's UK network with his company's undersea transatlantic cable to supply telecoms services to both sides of the Atlantic.

It is understood that Thus chief executive Bill Allan has met Peterson but no formal talks on a merger have taken place.

Ahead of tomorrow's full-year results, Sam Morton, an analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, said: "Operational performance remains weak but further downgrades could trigger a bid." Bid speculation is likely to support the share price, which rose 9.43% on Friday to close up 1.25p at 14.5p. Turnover is expected to rise from 332m to 360m.

I think it will breakout

Well you have brought the thread ttt tarzan, that's a start :-)

The MM's happily taking stock on board @ 15.5p. Bid holding firmly. Reckon stock is being bought for CVC or another institution, should not be too long before there is another news release on major holdings.

Anyone trading CFD's on Thus? Is it worth a go?

Well someone likes thus.

RNS Number:8962O
Thus Group PLC
14 July 2005

14 July 2005
THUS GROUP PLC

Holding in Company

THUS was today informed by The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., ("GS Inc") of 85 Broad
Street, New York, NY 10004, USA, that as at close of business on 08 July 2005,
it was interested, by attribution only, in a total 82,344,633 shares:
Of these 82,344,633 shares:

c. The interest in 82,273,305 shares arose from a beneficial interest
held by Goldman Sachs International, a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of GS
Inc. These shares are, or will be, registered at CREST in account CREPTEMP.

aye ... 19p will do me nicely.

something brewing here. Announcement soon?

More buying by GS
looking good :-)

city trader - 26 Aug 2005 14:49 - 296 of 297
something brewing here. Announcement soon?

Spot on:

At close of business on 26 August 2005,
it was interested, by attribution only, in a total 97,925,873 shares:
Of these 97,925,873 shares:



It's Taken 10 Days for some reason.

Thus Group PLC
05 September 2005



05 September 2005

THUS GROUP PLC

Holding in Company

THUS was today informed by The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., ('GS Inc') of 85 Broad
Street, New York, NY 10004, USA, that as at close of business on 26 August 2005,
it was interested, by attribution only, in a total 97,925,873 shares:
Of these 97,925,873 shares:

a. The interest in 69,651 shares arose from an interest held by Goldman, Sachs
& Co. ('GS&CO'), a wholly-owned direct subsidiary of GS Inc, acting as
custodian for its customers. These shares are, or will be, registered in
the name of Goldman Sachs Securities (Nominees), Limited ('GSSN').

b. The interest in 1,677 shares arose from an interest held by GS&Co acting as
discretionary manager. These shares are, or will be, registered in the
name of GSSN.

c. The interest in 97,845,545 shares arose from a beneficial interest held by
Goldman Sachs International, a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of GS Inc.
These shares are, or will be, registered at CREST in account CREPTEMP.

- Ends -

For further information:

THUS plc
Kathryn Rhinds
+44 (0)20 7763 3126




This information is provided by RNS

is something happening at last , volume has shot up today and 78% were buys

petesteve

Even with the quieter day so far you could be right, with consolidation now under way within the sector and the bullish talk from William Allen before Christmas I am certainly not selling just yet !