18th October 2007 : Leadcom voted "AIM International Company of the Year for 2007"




Main Web Site : http://www.leadcom-is.com/

Investor Relations Email : investorsinfo@leadcom-is.com

http://www.forbes.com/businesswire/feeds/businesswire/2007/11/13/businesswire20071112005828r1.html

Leadcom and Optibase Partner to Deliver Advanced End-To-End IPTV Solution in Kazakhstan

11.13.07, 1:29 AM ET


Optibase Ltd. (NASDAQ:OBAS), a leading provider of advanced digital video solutions and Leadcom Integrated Solutions Ltd. (AIM:LEAD), a leading international provider of innovative telecommunication solutions, announced today a strategic alliance to roll out integrated TV over IP services. The first project will be delivered to a leading Telco operator in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Leadcom selected Optibase's pre-integrated, advanced IPTV platform in order to enhance its offering by adding high quality, broadcast TV and interactive IPTV services. The joint deployment in Kazakhstan includes Optibase's end-to-end IPTV solution consisting of Video on Demand (VOD), personal video recorder (PVR) services, middleware, set-top-boxes (STB) and the Optibase Media Gateway (MGW) carrier-grade H.264 encoding platform.

Countries such as Kazakhstan are experiencing strong growth due to new legislation and liberalization of the telecom sector. The IPTV solution provided by Optibase and Leadcom is ideally suited for this fast growing market, offering a state-of-the art system, which can be deployed both quickly and effectively.

Yoel Bar-Gil, Chief Technology Officer at Leadcom, said: "In this project, Leadcom is delivering a Triple-Play solution (IPTV, IP-phone & broad-band Internet access) to selected subscribers of the Telco operator. Optibase's IPTV solution allows Leadcom to provide its customers with a video over IP system that is efficient and easy to deploy. Furthermore, the Optibase solution provides Leadcom with an extensive offering of interactive and personalized features coupled with top video quality and low bit-rates. This creates a winning combination for our customers."

"Our partnership with Leadcom and the installation in Kazakhstan continue the Optibase momentum in the emerging Asian market:" said Udi Shani, Executive Vice President of Sales at Optibase. "This is based on the winning combination of Optibase's world-class integration, development and implementation services and Leadcom's vast experience in telecommunication networks and global presence, which together create a powerful IPTV solution."

About Leadcom

Leadcom Integrated Solutions Ltd. (Leadcom, AIM: LEAD), established in 1982, is an international leader in innovative telecommunications solutions. Incorporated in Israel, Leadcom was admitted to London's AIM market in April 2005. Operating in over 50 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia, Leadcom delivers services in the supply, implementation and management of telecommunication network services and solutions. For further information, please visit http://www.leadcom-is.com

About Optibase

Optibase provides professional encoding, decoding, video server upload and streaming solutions for telecom operators, IPTV service providers, broadcasters and content creators. The company's platforms enable the creation, broadband streaming and playback of high quality digital video. Optibase breadth of product offerings are used in applications such as: video over DSL/Fiber networks (IPTV), post production for the broadcast and cables industries, video contribution over IP, archiving, high-end surveillance, education, and business television. Headquartered in Israel, Optibase operates through its fully owned subsidiary in Mountain View, California and offices in, Japan, China, India and Singapore. Optibase products are marketed in over 40 countries through a combination of direct sales, independent distributors, system integrators and OEM partners. For further information, please visit http://www.optibase.com

Given the earlier news of the Optibase tie up for IPTV and other advanced services in Khazakstan, interesting to see Optibase are busy in India too.

http://www.israel-times.com/business/2007/10/india-israeli-optibase-wins-additional-major-contract-for-its-iptv-solutions-3158/

INDIA - Israeli Optibase wins additional major contract for its IPTV solutions

Author: Victoria Stern - Thursday, October 11, 2007

Largest private broadband and telephone service provider in India, Bharti Airtel Broadband & Telephone Services (B&TS) plans to penetrate further the fast-growing IPTV market.

IPTV encoding platforms, or H.264 Media Gateway (MGW) 5100, have already revolutionized the local market just in two past years. The demand continues to climb up and new contracts are being signed. Thanks to Bharti Airtel new deployment, by the end of 2007 thousand of households in India will be able to enjoy new high-quality extensive video services.

Collaborating with three out of four leading IPTV Indian service providers, advanced IPTV encoding platforms by a tier one Telco operator, such as Bharti Airtel, represents an important business relationship for our company” underlined Companys Chief Financial Officer, Amir Phillips.

Some more info on why a decent boost in USA activity should be coming (hence the move by Leadcom to enlarge their US activities and personnel base) :


http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/11/super_3g_in_the.html


Super 3G In The Hands Of 24 Million People Predicted By 2012

Posted by Elena Malykhina, Nov 28, 2007 05:10 PM

A new report by Juniper Research forecasts that by 2012, nearly 24 million subscribers worldwide will be using services based on a cellular technology called Long Term Evolution, or LTE, which is often referred to as "super 3G." That means in the next couple of years wireless carriers and mobile device makers will have to step up their game, especially in the United States.

In a battle of high-speed wireless networks, LTE earlier this month was chosen by the GSM Association as the preferred standard for fourth-generation wireless services. LTE is a successor to a 3G technology known as HSDPA. The other two proposed standards were WiMax and Qualcomm-backed Ultra Mobile Broadband.

According to the author of the Juniper Research report, Howard Wilcox, LTE will begin to achieve significant market traction in the 2011 and 2012 timeframe. He stated:

By 2012, for example, we forecast that [LTE] will represent around 24 million subscribers globally. As the GSM Association has said recently, it is a natural follow-on from HSPA and will benefit from the extensive installed base of [HSDPA] worldwide. Western Europe will account for over half of LTE subscribers in 2012.

The report predicts that LTE will go commercial by 2010, or at least early versions of the technology, and that high definition will become a reality on mobile devices.

That forecast is only two years away. Although most of the major carriers have rolled out 3G networks in the United States, they still offer mobile phones without the capability to use them. The iPhone is a perfect example. Instead of 3G, it uses AT&T (NYSE: T)'s slower cellular technology known as EDGE. Both Apple and AT&T have said that the iPhone's already limited battery life would be shortened even further if it had operated on a high-speed 3G network.

I wonder if that's the sacrifice we'll have to make as manufacturers pack more features into phones and as networks become faster and suck more power out of these phones?

Some testing is currently taking place to figure that whole thing out. Alcatel (NYSE: ALU)-Lucent and LG Electronics this month said they completed test calls using Alcatel-Lucent's LTE technology and mobile device prototypes from LG. The companies claim they've achieved one of the industry's first multivendor wireless LTE interoperability testing initiatives.

Juniper Research gives several reasons why we should care about LTE, including:


Downlink peak data rates up to 100 Mbps with 20 MHz bandwidth

Uplink peak data rates up to 50 Mbps with 20 MHz bandwidth

Reduced latency

However, a lot of the talk around LTE is still futuristic. Symbian, the world's No. 1 mobile operating system maker, is in the process of developing two mobile technologies that will make smartphones faster and richer in graphics in the future. One is called FreeWay, a new Internet Protocol networking architecture in Symbian OS, which promises superfast download speeds, high resolution audio and video streaming, and good-quality voice-over-IP calls without latency and jitter.

Whether Symbian's FreeWay and similar mobile technologies can deliver the broadband-like speeds they promise will ultimately depend on availability of LTE and other high-speed wireless services like WiMax.

Looks like a lump of the overhang has been snapped up by someone end of the day.

Ericsson do appear to be cleaning up in India, with Nokia/Motorola and the others not getting much when compared to Eric.


http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/12/01/stories/2007120151720400.htm

30th Nov 2007

Ericsson wins $100-m Idea Cellular contract

To supply and manage companys GSM network in Mumbai

Yet another milestone

Deal could be a precursor to Idea Cellular getting spectrum from the Government to commence services in the Circle.

Ericsson will supply radio access, microwave transmission, and core network equipment.

Will also be responsible for network deployment and integration, as well as managed services.

Our Bureau

New Delhi, Nov. 30 Swedish equipment maker Ericsson has won a contract to supply and manage Idea Cellulars GSM network in Mumbai.

The agreement with the Aditya Birla Group company is estimated to fetch revenues of $100 million to Ericsson over a four-year period.

The deal could be a precursor to Idea Cellular getting spectrum from the Government to commence services in the Circle.

The company has been awaiting allocation of spectrum for nearly a year after it received the licence for Mumbai in 2006.

Under the agreement, Ericsson will supply radio access, microwave transmission, and core network equipment, including Ericssons mobile soft switch solution.

The company will also be responsible for network deployment and integration, as well as managed services including network and field operations. Rollout is planned to begin shortly, with commercial launch rescheduled for May 2008.

2nd major deal

This is the second major deal between the two companies. Earlier Idea had given a $300-million contract to Ericsson for expanding its GSM-based cellular network across five circles over a three-year period.

Mr Sanjeev Aga, Managing Director, Idea Cellular, said: This move extends our long-running relationship with Ericsson and will provide us with a latest network in Mumbai. It ensures that we are well-positioned for future network development and addresses increasing customer demand for mobile services in a sustainable and cost-efficient way.

Mr Mats Granryd, Managing Director, Ericsson India, said: This contract is yet another milestone in our strong relationship with Idea Cellular. We are honoured by the confidence shown by them in selecting Ericsson as the preferred vendor for rolling out this prestigious network in Mumbai.

The deal announced on Friday will further enhance Ericssons position in the competitive Indian telecom gear market. It has already bagged some significant projects from BSNL and Bharti Airtel this year. However, the contract from Idea is Ericssons first network win in Mumbai and completes its footprint in Indias 23 telecom circles.

Interesting article in the US, changing their networks from CDMA to GSM (4G).

http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2007/12/01/verizon-going-4g-lte-gsm-starting-in-2008-and-what-it-means-for-you/

December 1, 2007 | Verizon going 4G LTE (GSM) starting in 2008 and what it means for you

By Danny Mendez

Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin said it would happen, and it looks like it finally will. Verizon will start the switch from 3G CDMA/EV-DO to 4G GSM/LTE in 2008, but what does it mean for the customer?

For those unfamiliar with the acronyms I just used, CDMA and EV-DO are the wireless technologies Verizon uses for its network in the US. This is unlike much of the rest of the world, which uses GSM. GSM is a much more open standard that allows customers to easily switch services and phones. GSM phones use SIM cards, small cards that tell the phone what service and number to use, and they can easily be inserted into any GSM phone. CDMA phones must be registered with the network in order to operate and can only be activated with the specific service it was designed for (Sprint phones are also CDMA but they cant be moved to Verizons network and vice versa).

With Verizon moving to LTE, a GSM technology, it will allow Verizons incredibly reliable and speedy network to work with most GSM phones (read: iPhone is a GSM phone) available. Verizons phone lineup is much weaker than whats available from other companies, and that will no longer be a problem if Verizon switches to a GSM technology.

It only gets better. LTE is a super fast technology allowing for download and upload speeds never before available in the US through a wireless carrier.

Furthermore, Verizon is aiming to open the netwok to devices not traditionally connected through a wireless service provider. Devices like video game consoles, refrigerators, and cars may one day have an always-on speedy data connection through a cellular service provider.

The transition to LTE should be completed by 2013, and it is unknown when Vodafone will start the same transition.

http://www.investegate.co.uk/article.aspx?id=20071212070000Z7577&fe=1


Leadcom Integrated Solutions Ltd


Leadcom Announces Follow-Up Order in India

Leadcom Integrated Solutions Ltd. ('Leadcom' or 'the Company', AIM: LEAD), a leading international provider of innovative telecommunication solutions, announced today that it has been awarded a follow-up order by an existing customer of the Company, a major cellular operator in India.

This order is on a Full Turnkey basis, for the delivery of products and services pertaining to construction of telecom sites in a circle in which Leadcom has already rendered services to this customer, as well as in two new circles.

The value of this order is expected to exceed US$16 million, the majority of which is anticipated to be recognized in the first quarter of 2008.

Arik Alcalay, Leadcom's CEO, commented: 'We are delighted to receive this follow up order, as it is clear evidence to the significant confidence of this major operator has in Leadcom, our performance and abilities. We are very pleased with the progress we are making in the Indian market, and believe to be well positioned in order to capture additional business opportunities in this market during 2008 and beyond.'

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Yael Margoninsky - Leadcom
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Starting to form a bit of an uptrend now, which is nice to see. Lets hope this buying of the last month or so continues, could well be perhaps Israeli insitutions getting in ahead of the dual TASE listing next year ?


Some other sector related news :

http://www.cellular-news.com/story/28146.php

Nokia Siemens Picks Up Indian Gsm Network Contract

Nokia Siemens Networks has won a US$150 million contract from India's Idea Cellular to build and provide managed services for a Greenfield GSM network in Bihar. The three year contract includes supply of GSM / GPRS and Short Message Service Center (SMSC) equipment, network implementation, roll out project management, service for third party products and managed services.

As part of the contract, Nokia Siemens Networks will not only provide managed services such as operating and maintaining network infrastructure but will also deliver project management services for roll out, supply and services of third party solutions, network implementation and care services. Nokia Siemens Networks will also provide IDEA Cellular with GPRS and SMSC equipment in the Mumbai circle.

The network will be ready for commercial operations by early 2008; subject to spectrum availability.

In 2007, this is the second contract IDEA Cellular has awarded Nokia Siemens Networks, the previous one being a two year US$500 million GSM network expansion contract to expand Idea Cellular's GSM / GPRS / EDGE networks to cover population centres across the six circles of Delhi, Haryana, UP East, UP West, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala.

This is the 4th managed services contract for Nokia Siemens Networks in India, where it runs a Global Network Operations Center in Chennai.

Posted to the site on 18th December 2007

Yes, looking slightly healthier now, pleased I hung on.
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Nice to see it back in the 50's. Well done to all who did not get scared into selling in the high 30's and low 40's.

Lets hope this nice upwards trend continues.

Wonder if Leadcom will be getting any of this Ericsson work ? The Israel order seems big, in that 1400 base stations getting swapped out.


http://www.cellular-news.com/story/28218.php

Ericsson Wins 3G Contract in Chile

Ericsson will be the sole supplier for a nationwide GSM/WCDMA/HSPA network expansion and upgrade by Chilean operator Entel PCS. The deal builds on earlier Ericsson-Entel contracts and deliveries will begin in the first quarter of 2008.

Under the three-year agreement, Ericsson will provide GSM/WCDMA/HSPA radio access and common core network equipment to expand and upgrade Entel PCS's existing mobile network across Chile. Ericsson will also provide a wide range of professional services, including network design, deployment and systems integration.

The move follows Ericsson's deployment of Entel PCS's WCDMA/HSPA network in Chile in December 2006, the first such network in Latin America.

Posted to the site on 20th December 2007


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http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/071221/0342922.html

Ericsson to be sole supplier for Israeli operator Partner

Friday December 21, 9:10 am ET

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN--(MARKET WIRE)--Dec 21, 2007 -- Ericsson (NasdaqGS:ERIC - News) has been selected by Israeli mobile operator Partner Communications to replace and expand its WCDMA/HSPA equipment. The deal sees Ericsson become the sole vendor of Partner's GSM and WCDMA/HSPA core and radio network.

Under the agreement, Ericsson will provide a full swap of 1400 base stations, expanding the capacity of channel elements for voice and data to support speeds of up to 14.4Mbps. Ericsson will also provide a wide range of professional services, including business consulting, deployment and integration. Ericsson will support and maintain other Ericsson elements in Partner's network as well.

The deal reinforces Ericsson's leading position as the supplier of WCDMA/HSPA technology in Israel and is expected to lead to higher operational and technological efficiency and to result in cost reductions for Partner Communications. The system deployment has started and is set to be completed by July 2011.

Looks like the assumptions on Israeli institutionals buying in is correct with todays news. Hopefully more and more to come ahead of a TASE dual listing in 2008. :



Leadcom Integrated Solutions Ltd

Holding in Company

Leadcom Integrated Solutions Ltd. ('Leadcom' or 'the Company'), (AIM: LEAD), was notified on December 23 2007 that TAO TSUOT LTD holds 4,259,734 of Leadcom's ordinary shares, representing approximately 3.55 per cent of the Company's issued ordinary share capital.

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Sector related news (and you never know which ones of these Leadcom do work on) :


http://www.interfax.com/3/349787/news.aspx

10:13 GMT, Dec 24, 2007 Latest Headlines...

Huawei, Nokia-Siemens to build 3G network for Megafon

MOSCOW. Dec 24 (Interfax) - Russia's Megafon (RTS: MEGF) has chosen
China's Huawei Technologies and Finish-German Nokia-Siemens Networks for
the construction of its third generation (3G) network in Russia, a
statement by the cellular operator says.
The existing Megafon network already uses the equipment of these
producers. The company plans to spend up to $250 million on the
construction of the 3G network in 2008, the statement says.
"The partners chosen in the tender offered the best conditions as
to the quality and price ratio. Proposals of bidders in the tender were
assessed given operational costs of equipment installation and
maintenance. We have a positive experience of cooperating with both
companies," Megafon deputy general director Alexei Nichiporenko said in
the statement.

"New generation networks will be built where there are spare
frequencies, where it is economically rational and where there is
effective demand for services," he said.

Huawei and Nokia-Siemens will deliver base station controllers
(BSC) and base station subsystems (BSS), as well as installing the
equipment, maintaining it and training personnel. The regional division
of suppliers will not be based on the geographic principle, and it is
for the first time that a supplier will not have exclusive right to
deliver equipment to a particular region.

"Megafon plans to build the 3G network on the base of the existing
2G network without stopping or seriously reconfiguring the current GSM
system. The company plans to build the new generation networks with the
use of HSDPA [High-Speed Downlink Packet Access] and HSUPA [High-Speed
Uplink Packet Access] technologies that allow a drastic increase to the
speed and quality of data transmissions," the statement says.

Megafon announced a closed tender for the delivery of equipment for
its new 3G network among Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Nokia-Siemens, NEC
and Huawei Technologies.

The Russian cellular operator will now cooperate with Nokia-Siemens
in the European part of Russia and the Volga-Urals district, and Huawei
in Siberia and the Far East. Nokia-Siemens together with Sweden's
Ericsson will construct a 3G network for the Mobile TeleSystems (MTS)
(RTS: MTSS). VimpelCom (RTS: VIMP), the third owner of a license for 3G
networks, has yet to name its suppliers.

Megafon is the third largest Russian cellular operator in terms of
subscribers and the only one whose commercial network covers all Russian
regions.

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http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000290127&fid=942


Tao Tsuot joins parties at interest in Leadcom

Tao Tsuot has acquired 3.55% of the company on the open market.

Globes' correspondent and Tali Tsipori 24 Dec 07 17:47

Tao Tsuot Ltd. (TASE: TAO-M) has bought 4.3 million shares in Leadcom Integrated Solutions Ltd. (AIM: LEAD), amounting to 3.55% of the company. The purchase makes Tao Tsuot a party at interest in the company under Londons Alternative Investment Market (AIM) rules.

Leadcom did not disclose the details of the purchase in its notice to the AIM, and Tao Tsuot has not sent a notice to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) about the deal. However, on the basis of trading in Leadcom shares in the past few days, the shares were bought at ₤0.47-0.51 each for a total more than ₤2 million ($4-4.3 million). Leadcom has risen from a low point of ₤0.405 two weeks ago to ₤0.51 today, giving a market cap of ₤60.6 million. Tao Tsuot's purchases probably played a role in the rise.

Other parties at interest in Leadcom include AXA, Rathbone Brothers, Puma Sphera, and First Israel Mezzanine Investors Fund (FIMI).

Another new major holder :

Leadcom Integrated Solutions Ltd


Holding in Company

December 27, 2007, Hod Hasharon, Israel - Leadcom Leadcom Integrated Solutions
Ltd. ('Leadcom' or 'the Company'), (AIM: LEAD), was notified on December 25,
2007 that Pamplona Global Emerging Markets Fund holds 6,955,980 of Leadcom's
ordinary shares, representing approximately 5.8 per cent of the Company's issued ordinary share capital.

This stock will be 60p by april. 25% up since its fall, still at least another 25% in it for 2008, depreciating pound will help it, increased orders, increased margins, more focussed business, growing markets what more do you need?

Sold these now for a fair profit so can't complain, good luck remaining holders.
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Leadcom are a strategic partner of NEC, so perhaps there could be something for LEAD.

http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/423825

NEC wins Polish 3G mobile contract

Friday, December 28, 2007 at 07:00 EST

TOKYO NEC Corp has signed a framework contract with a leading Polish telecom carrier, Netia, for the supply of advanced, point-to-point wireless access systems, PASOLINK NEO. The new systems will be supplied to the 3G mobile operator P4.

P4, a new 3G mobile operator that started service in Poland earlier this year, is accelerating improvement of its network infrastructure to enable provision of stable and high quality 3G services. PASOLINK NEO will be employed to carry out transmission among mobile base stations. P4 plans to install around 10,000 hops in the next 5 years, and NEC expects to provide around 1,000 hops to mainly northern and middle areas of Poland, as well as to Warsaw, to fulfill the initial demands of the framework contract.

Another Israeli institutional on board :

December 31, 2007, Hod Hasharon, Israel - Leadcom Integrated Solutions Ltd.
('Leadcom' or 'the Company'), (AIM: LEAD), was notified that Elco Holding Ltd.
holds 4,736,281 of Leadcom's ordinary shares, representing approximately 3.95
per cent of the Company's issued ordinary share capital.

And the rises continue, soon be back past 60p (fingers crossed as well as them there toes) ;) :)