Some good news at last from this weeks Shares mag. Tim Freeborn revisits the company and altho no firm details are given about new deals he says they will be announced this quarter. I would think that this could be at the same time as the interim results are announced. I for one will be holding on cos they will fly sooner rather than later! ( 8.30% up today!)

Tim

Cheers tim! Does sound encouraging overall, apart from the betting income bit!!
Jam tomorrow i feel!!

Thanks Tim

Thank you for the information. Seems time to put my holding in the bottom draw and keep taking the pills.

Interesting reading - thanks Tim.

yes,
I still hold 1.2m shares and I think I would not be able to sell without first changing my recommendation on the company.

are you going to be a regular on this thread now , tim?
by the way , enjoy your column in shares and use your tips as a start point.

tim,
was the overall reaction to the shareholders meeting favourable, or was there a general discontent over the presentations?
I've been holding these shares for a good while now with promises of imminent major contract wins and ramping up of vast spare capacity. Will the extra 5% ever be acheived in your opinion?

Thanks Tim for the info and participation. It's very re-assuring to know you're in the same boat as the rest of us!!!!!!!

Tim

Hopefully that means that you wont be changing your recommendation on the company as a result of what you learned at the meeting!!! I still feel that the fun will start soon as an awfull lot of contracts seem to be going live or are about to. Maybe we bought in a year too early!!

topped up this morning. its definately promising and there is little else to buy at the moment with the risk/reward epo gives

SS

Well done, (yours were the early 100000 buys i take it) as i said before definately worth topping up at these levels as they wont be here long. Im currently holding close to 4mil. Anyone else on this board share my faith with a mil+ holding??

I share your faith jdubb, just haven't got your kind of money!! :-)

B

Cheers mate and thx for representing this bb and the ADVFN one at the meeting. IM off to nxt year's one to see how my investment got to such a ridiculously high price (hopefully about 10-15p)!!!!! Now at that price i would be rich!!!

As someone has already said, the anticpated wait for gold has just got longer, so IMHO there will more sellers than buyers unless we see some good news coming from EPO.

People, (and I include me in this) bought into the (greed) short term story written in shares, but also talked up on this board and elsewhere.

There are some buyers who will use this weakness to top up their holdings but a) I don't believe the buyers will outstrip the sellers in the short term and b) those that are prepared to hold, (as I will), will have longer to wait, I.e it will become an investment holding rather than a trading holding.

In short I believe the price will remain weak for a while, (few months maybe. unless a penny stock newsletter puffs the story - now there's a thought!), but over that period I will probably add to my existing holding, (Ok, so not in the Millions of shares bracket, but a considerable stake for me)

looks like a lot of people werent impreesed by what the management had to say judging by todays drop .

The share price often seems to do this & then often recovers, usually with very light trading.

If it drops some more then I may buy some more but I think we may have to wait a while for this share to take off.

Agree with apple, this is definitely an 'invest' share. It may take a little while to get the ball rolling, but this time next year we may well be sitting on a goldmine. Although I feel bad saying it, helping the govt of the worlds most populous country tax its citizens has got to be looking good (for us).
p.s dont hold me to the goldmine quote, it may go into administration, but more than likely we are speculating to accumulate.

Buys today 721k vs sells of 307k so positive in spite of the fall

Earthport PLC
11 May 2004

11 May 2004
earthport plc

earthport will provide micro-payments solution to
Wanadoo in the UK

earthport plc, the electronic payment services company,(EPO.L) today announced
it has been selected by Wanadoo, the UK's No. 1 for the Internet, to enable
Wanadoo's customers to pay for digital content via the UK's first portal-wide '
stored value' micro-payments solution. A 'stored value' account acts like a
wallet, where funds are initially deposited by a customer. This makes it easier
for the customer to make small payments to a range of different content
providers.

earthport will handle all micro-payment transactions for digital content between
Wanadoo and its 2.6 million UK customers. The solution will provide Wanadoo and
its merchants with a cost effective alternative to Premium Rate SMS as a way to
charge for content. The solution is also designed to conform to FSA e-money
regulations, providing an alternative system, should there be regulation of
Premium Rate SMS services in the future.

Wanadoo in the UK will be introducing the new payment solution later this year
to capitalise on the huge growth opportunities in digital content, from sports
results, horoscopes to news, music, video, ring tones & games. The solution
will provide consumers with the ability to pay for digital content and services
across the portal, securely, and by entering personal & payment information only
once, creating a stored value account. Other benefits include a record of the
full details and history of purchases, spending controls, and the security of
purchasing from known and reputable merchants.

The solution will also enable up to 200 merchants to access the Wanadoo UK
consumer base, promote special offers, track transactions and capture further
marketing related data.

Justin Lunny, earthport plc Head of Business Development, commented:

'earthport is very excited to be working with Wanadoo on this important project.
Digital content is a huge and growing business across Europe, and ISPs and
content providers are looking to capitalise on this growth. earthport's
solution is the ideal platform for cross spend services, and this project is
further proof of increased demand for earthport's stored value product across
multiple markets.'


-ends-


For further information, please contact:

earthport plc Tel: +44 (0) 20 7907 1100
Rob Cunningham, CEO
Justin Lunny, Head of Business Development

Wanadoo UK Tel: +44 (0)20 7553 7566
Kate Hobbs, PR Executive Kate.hobbs@uk.wanadoo.com
Financial Dynamics (PR to Earthport) Tel: +44 (0) 207 831 3113
James Melville-Ross / Juliet Clarke


About earthport

earthport plc is a UK-based company specialising in the provision of secure
electronic payment systems. earthport's key product is its Universal Payment
Network, a payment infrastructure which links directly to traditional legacy
banking systems, connecting the banking and electronic worlds. The UPN allows
parties to transact internationally using cash or cards, securely and affordably
via any electronic enabled device. The UPN enables payment delivery in over 80
countries and in multiple currencies. UPN is bi-directional and caters for
micro to macro payments.

Based in the West End and City of London, with 60 employees, earthport plc was
admitted to the AIM (ticker: EPO) in 2001. Further information can be found at:
www.earthport.com

About Wanadoo

Wanadoo, a subsidiary of France Telecom, is one of Europe's leading Internet and
directories companies with, at March 31, 2004, more than 9.3 million Internet
Access customers and, at December 31, 2003, more than 641,000 advertisers in
Directories. Wanadoo is the leading Internet media services provider in France
and the U.K., and the ndegrees2 in Spain and in The Netherlands. Wanadoo had
more than 2.9 million ADSL and cable subscribers at March 31, 2004. It recorded
2.6 billion euros in revenues in 2003 and has approximately 6,700 employees.

Wanadoo is listed on Euronext Paris. Further information on Wanadoo can be found
on the company's web site at: www.wanadoocorporate.com

This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

I guess thats one of the five..................almost half way through the year.......still chance for it to be Earthports year :-))..........seems a good contract win.......but not easy to predict revenues from this yet........a blue day today......but still will be below my averaging of 3.2p.