Nice rises Friday and today,after being tipped up by Money Week magazine ,with first half sales up 86%,and a cheaper Broadband bundle than Car Phone warehouse,a forward p/e of 15.4 and a likely takeover target seems the one to be on in a guarateed consolidating sector.

Warwick to start WiMax trials next month
Posted by Maggie Holland at 2:26PM, Tuesday 3rd April 2007
The council plans to use the technology to help citizens, staff and the bottom line by working in partnership with Intel, Pipex Wireless and National Grid Wireless.




Warwick District Council is gearing up to kick off a WiMax trial next month that it hopes will reduce overheads, aid flexible working, enhance citizen services and put the area on the map technologically.

The pilot, which will focus on half the town initially, will run for around six months, by which time Warwick hopes to have proved that the benefits it has already seen in theory can actually be delivered in practice and extend the trial to a full blown district-wide roll out.

The council announced its intentions to embark on a trial with Intel, Pipex Wireless and National Grid Wireless at the beginning of this year and is now almost ready to push the button on the pilot, with plans to do so towards the end of May.

"We are a low-cost running, high performing council. So if we are already [cost effective] where do we go to find savings without cutting services?," said the council's chief executive Chris Elliott.

"A one per cent increase in council tax for us only raises about 60,000 for us and if we put rates up to the five per cent cap it would only generate 300,000 which these days I'm afraid don't buy you an awful lot."

He added: "Part of the reason we're interested in WiMax is we're looking for a way to delivery services without killing the quality of services. That's a very important combination.

"We believe that technology can transform the way certain people live, work and place and in using technology to actually change things.

Like many businesses, the council is paying a high premium for office space that is often not needed as many of its employees spend a large proportion of their time offsite visiting other people and other sites.

The aim is to encourage some of these workers to work more flexibly, supported by the new technology, so that it can get rid of unneeded desks and rent out unused office space.

Importantly, this flexible working drive will not be a forced one, claims Elliot,

"We are aware of the social issues like where do you belong if you don't go somewhere? All employees reminisce about holidays or how awful their boss is, it's what binds us together as an organisation so we want to be careful that we don't loosen that glue so much that we become too disparate," he said.

"It's not about forcing staff. But a lot of jobs don't need to be done in the office. If you're processing housing benefit applications, for example, provided you've got links to the information, you can pretty much do that anywhere."

In addition to using the technology to aid cost reduction and flexibility, Warwick District Council also plans to make use of WiMax to implement mobile CCTV to monitor anti-social behaviour as well as helping the elderly and vulnerable through telemonitoring services.

Elliot joked that Warwick has become like the Seattle of England because of its leading edge approach to technology and high volume of innovative companies located in the area.

That's a similarity he plans to capitalise on to drive increased business activity to benefit both the local economy and citizens.

"We have rural areas where broadband access is not as good as it should be and for small businesses this is a barrier to growth and set up. We want to explore whether there is a way we can use [WiMax] to help overcome that particular barrier.

"We need a 21st century infrastructure to support these businesses and to attract others into the area."

I think you are right we are not going to hear anything until 13th March.

try 13th April ... apparently day of AGM ... and Friday 13th just for good measure!!

whos got the balls to hold them then!!!!!!!!!let me no you can hold mine two.......LOL

Friday 13th.
great!

Mind that black cat boys, as well as that ladder.....!

ineresting RNS this morning (part below) considering the bids currently being discussed ......

Pipex Communications plc, (PXC), a major provider of integrated
telecommunications and internet solutions including broadband, voice, domain
name registrations and hosting, is pleased to announce that Pipex Wireless and
Nokia Siemens Networks have agreed to co-operate on WiMAX infrastructure and
service development to expand the availability of commercial WiMAX services in
the UK.

I'm assuming until things are tied up its business as usual

of course it is and equally this was not an arrangment made overnight ..... just adds a little more spice and interest to proceedings

According to the 'Diary of Events' PXC have their finals tuesday 17th April, no mention of AGM on 13th.
2517

17th it is .i stand corrected.

Mail on Sunday reports that BT have pulled out of the bidding for Pipex, apparently that leaves only Carphone Warehouse, who they report have put in a "low ball" offer......

What made it all go pear shape.

hope Mail is wrong!

Hoping is not good enough dubens needs to put news out quicker and not play the waiting game.

u r right, but there is no argument that PXC is up for sale .... nevertheless some info and feedback from the management would not come amiss

Mail on Sunday article

Strawbs.

This all stinks doesn't it? Papers quoting unofficial sources says Virgin has put in offer over 20p, BT will pay more etc and then. Oh! There's nothing on the table and they're walking away. Lots of money being made by people in the know while the rest of us wait for an RNS!

Shear lying or don't the companies like the look of the books? Have they seen the books for due diligence?

Sounds like Mr Dubens wants to keep hold of Wimax why else would he tie up with Nokia,this is the bit all the others want,pencil in the problem with Bulldog and you can see why the others are reluctant.At the moment all the big holders are in,including the main man,its tommorow if there are big sells things start to get TRUMPY,still the value of the company is still there and im sticking.jim

cant believe dubens will sell for less than 18p.traditional end of decade bull run on the cards have held pxc shares for over 3 years will hold for another 3 and will be better off for it.this company will be sold eventually and the price will only go up and the competition knows it.