Tipped by the independent 2/01/2004

........."And so to our traditional "wild card". Pipex Communications, formerly known as GX Networks, is a telecoms company created by one of the entrepreneurs behind Ukbetting, Peter Dubens. It has been assembled from six smaller players. The ambitious company is generating cash for the first time but is still not widely followed in the City. It could be an undiscovered gem".

buys outdoing sells today, purely on the basis of 3 buts of 500000 shares.
- also 2 unknowns of 600000 which look life buys as well.

So bigger investors getting in, whilst smaller ones drift away. Who knows what about expected results on 11th...

Turning out to be black (red) Monday on all my stocks, 'cept for COR and PXC..
Will the crap market performance catch up with PXC or will PCX hang on and head north in the new fin. yr and before, during and after the results... ? We'll see.. although nothing's happening to the sp ...it's exciting, isn't it ?

Agreed - its like watching paint dry, but a stable sp & more buyers than sellers is as good as it gets currently!

Five million sign up to broadband
Andrew Oxlade, This is Money,
5 April 2005
TELECOMS giant BT will connect the five millionth broadband customer in the next few days, a year earlier than planned. The figure, which includes BT's rivals who have been given access to its local exchanges, was set in 2002 when the UK had just 200,000 high-speed web access.


Broadband is now one of the fastest growing consumer products of all time, with a faster-growing take-up rate than televisions, CD players or mobile phones. Prime Minister Tony Blair congratulated the company, saying the milestone was of 'vital importance' to the country.


'Broadband has the ability to transform the way we live our lives - whether in business, education or in how we use our leisure time,' he said. 'Most significantly of all, the adoption of broadband technology will enhance the UK's ability to compete in the modern knowledge economy.'



More than 95% of homes and businesses in the UK are now connected to broadband-enabled exchanges and the figure will rise to 99.6% by the summer.' The momentum of broadband is continuing to build,' said Ben Verwaayen, BT chief executive.


'The latest million connections have come in just four months, and BT is connecting a customer every ten seconds. But now the focus needs to move from broadband availability towards the ways in which broadband can improve people's lives. At work through greater productivity, and at home by delivering a whole range of new services.


BT dominates the broadband market with around a 35% share. Its latest figures, from December, show the company had 1.5m direct customers. It claims the UK broadband is now the most competitive in the world, with 200 companies offering services.


However, rivals have accused the former state-owned monopoly of dragging its heels in allowing access to its network. BT started from a strong position with a telephone network that extends to nearly every home in the country.


However, it has been forced to 'unbundle' its local exchanges and sell line space to rivals. Currently the market is split three ways - a handful of 'resellers' buy network space from BT and sell it to customers. Other companies snap up space in exchanges that BT has been forced to unbundle. There also around 2m customers with cable firms, which have laid their own connections to homes.


The largest resellers include AOL and Tiscali, with around 600,000 broadband customers each in the UK, while companies such as Wanadoo, with 700,000 subscribers, and Pipex, with 200,000 customers, have taken advantage of unbundling. The cable market is dominated by NTL, with 1m customers, and Telewest with 700,000.


In December, communications watchdog Ofcom told BT to cut its charges for access to local exchanges. Experts said it would eventually equate to a 36% reduction in charges for customers signing up to a non-BT broadband service.


A report last week by research group Forrester said the broadband market expanded 65% in Western Europe last year, twice as fast as in the US, where consumers embraced the technology earlier. The report added that broadband services in France, Italy and the UK were 'competitive and innovative as anything offered around the world'.


In Britain, broadband prices tend to range between 17.99 and 26.99 per month, depending on the package and data transmission speeds. Some more innovative packages, which offer a pay-as-you-go service, based on the amount of data downloaded, start at little more than 10 a month.


BT also flexed its muscle in February by promising to quadruple the speed of its standard broadband service without increasing charges. Most consumer and business customers will have their speed increased up to 2Mb. Those with BT Broadband Basic will have their speed increased from 512k up to 1Mb.

Is this the last chance to buy cheap?

Some hope.

I am begining to think the same as you dclinton. LOL. I am in for the ride

could be the last time to buy cheap, me thinks !.. they want your shares so they are scaring people into selling.. (imho..but I'm probably wrong!)

Its cheaper now !!!!

Buy while you can...

http://www.newratings.com/analyst_news/article_764241.html

sure reads well skids - best in before monday then on this basis

Have toped up. shown as a sell. LOL

all sells at 7.35 are actual buys

why a downward trend in SP if the results are as going to be that good?

Why are the some of the sells, buys? Happened to me also yesterday.

The Buy/Sell is just based on the price and where it falls in relation to bid/offer at the time. Probably best to ignore it to be honest. Look at volumes instead.

No one knows what the results are going to be until Monday, but the price has been static for a while. Perhaps some big buy orders are being filled!? (at a guess). Not long til we find out anyway...

Buys still going through as sells.Bought a few more for my pension. LOL

How many more do we have to buy to move the price upward?

As many as we can get in until Monday 11th... lol

LOL skids