American Communciations Enterprise, Inc., (OTCBB:ACEN) expects to have
Revenues of 165 million and Earnings from Operations of 36 million in the
year 2001.
How can an OTC trading in the .10 range expect that and keep a straight face?
Through it’s merger with Swift Telecommunications and it's acquisition of AT&
T’s (NYSE: T ) Easylink division.
Fully dilutive EPS is expected to be .18....
At the current price ACEN receives the year 2001's first No Brainer award..
On Thursday, ACEN announced a spinoff, with dividend to shareholders, of one
of it's divisions.
SWIFT Overview
Swift's Business divides its electronic messaging business into four key
segments:
enhanced fax services, EDI application-based email, and Telex. Each of these
segments
is used principally by businesses for either business-to-business
communication or
communication among individuals or computers within the same business
organization.
The Business provides enhanced fax services, EDI, application-based email,
and Telex to
customers in more than 110 countries around the world.
Its electronic messaging services are delivered over the Business's worldwide
state-of-the-art network consisting of two U.S. data centers and three global
node centers
that house software and servers located in five cities on two continents.
The network is supported by a trained team of more than 90 network operations
personnel, 18 MIS personnel, and 28 research and development personnel.
The services are sold by a dedicated sales force of approximately 12 people
(consisting of approximately 11 sales people and 1 administrative support
staff).
In addition, a group of about 8 people manage approximately 80 sales agents
and resellers
for alternative channel revenue generation.
Its customers are supported by a dedicated group of approximately 60 customer
care
personnel who respond to customer-initiated inquiries and resolve technical
and other
problems.
Swift's Business also includes approximately 39 product management and
technical
marketing personnel.
Internationally, it provides its services through licensees and resellers in
more than
20 countries around the world. The Business has licensees in the United
Kingdom,
Canada, and Israel. It has resellers around the world to provide global
messaging services.
Overall, the Business has approximately 270 employees in the U.S.
SWIFT Management
The management team assembled by Swift have over a century of experience
between
them and is headed by George Abi Zeid. He is the founder of Swift
Telecommunications,
Inc. (STI). In 1978, Abi Zeid founded Swift Global Communications, Inc. Swift
Global
was a major player in the telex and fax business with systems installed in
over 34
countries. In 1995, Swift Global was sold to Xpedite Systems, Inc. After the
acquisition,
Mr. Abi Zeid was elected, by the Board of Directors of Xpedite, to be the
President of
Xpedite Systems International Division.
Currently, George Abi Zeid is in the process of concluding a number of large
acquisitions in the telex industry (GN Comtext Network in the UK with front
ends in 46
countries - closed August 1, 2000, AT&T Easylink of New Jersey, Telemedia
Networks,
Inc. (TMI), formerly a division of Telecom Italia - closed October, 2000,
and other
smaller organizations). The strategy is to join all of these groups as one in
order to
acquire the economic benefit and also utilize existing networks to expand a
Voice Over
Internet Protocol (VOIP) network on a global basis.
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