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Indeed Danielle, thanks on my behalf as well. Always appreciated.
You do have consistently shown a kind ear to transmit and share info from and to managment.
And at present ANY INFO coming from Rob or GTEM is better than NO INFO.
So let us be happy and content with the crumbles that are passed on.
The issue of the "wiring harness malfunction on the strat" as already mentioned several times through press and posts remains hanging in the air.
Could you try to get some additional info on this subject from Rob. It its own way it is indicative of the capacity of the SSII team to survive, adapt and move on. At least under the best scenario hypothesis.
Do we have a major structural problem here or not?
TIA
GTWE has no WiMAX license in Germany!
Thanks indeed Jim, you prompted a little more DD on my side.
Similar info was posted last December by Axel Bonn, I mean Klaus Larator (sorry keep getting mixed up with all these names and aliases) LOL!
Although not sure if you can equate WiMax with “Broadband wireless access”. I assume that MGM Productions Group and Televersa Online are the same as the unnamed regional licenses mentioned by Alex in his/her post of 12/16/2006.
More from Alex below to point out where we seem to be today in Germany; as follows:
a) Heilbron was a starter last November but did not last long.
b) Clearstream is the company to approach as Deutsche Telekom has opted out of WiMax, except that as of today:
c.1) GTWE is down to Siggy and two more employees, just to hold the fort
c.2) No more ex Ambassadors and high flying Rubikon Caesars to rely on for approaching Clearstream or any other potential JV partner of any consequence
IT SEEMS THERE IS NO CLEAR INDICATION OF WHO, HOW AND WHEN GTWE (i.e. Globetel Europe) COULD POSSIBLY START A JV WITH A WiMax LICENSED GERMAN COMPANY.
True we still have an Anglo-Polish connection and Uli Altvater and also Alice Muntz may be of German ancestry, but it all looks to me as we have really run out of steam here.
NO WIMAX AND NO STRAT = NO HOTZONE AND SUPER HUB
Posted by: Axel Larator
In reply to: dfmantx who wrote msg# 49783
Date:11/3/2006 11:31:34 AM
Post # of 49896
www.buergernetze.de points to GlobeTel.EU
If you are close to to their Head-End in Heilbron you will see a Wi-Fi landing page with a SSID Buergernetze. With “guest” as user and “guest” as PWD you are in for a surf.
Netstumbler is running since Friday last week but no real traffic at all. Their office seems to be empty.
The Head-End looks pretty impressive, different from the pictures we have seen before but the roof is full of antennas also a camera system is visible.
Posted by: Axel Larator
In reply to: Dollarfromcents who wrote msg# 49893
Date:11/4/2006 5:07:51 AM
Post # of 49975
Deutsche Telekom
I checked the WiMax issue with Deutsche Telekom. I talked with two PR guys and a technical manager. DT made a Due Dilligence and decided not to go for a Germany-wide WiMax biz. They told me that the last white spots (non-DSL areas) in Germany will be closed soon. The costs of a professional WiMax network are similiar to a mobile (GPS) based system or higher. The money they would have to spend will be used for the expansion of T-Mobile in the US.
Posted by: Axel Larator
In reply to: crashtestsuperstar who wrote msg# 58161
Date:12/16/2006 6:07:57 PM
Post # of 58655
“Clearstream has paid a few millions to get a free spectrum and is established in the Internet world. They have customers. We have not. In Germany (GETW is) sitting a General Manager (Siggy) a secretary and a technician, that's all.”
Posted by: Axel Larator
In reply to: None
Date:12/16/2006 5:11:05 AM
Post # of 58654
German Broadband Wireless Auction Sees Clearwire, Inquam, DBD as Winners
By Glenn Fleishman
Martin Sauter notes that the German broadband wireless access auction is already over: It ran a short course and resulted in €56m for the government’s coffers from the three nationwide winners. Clearwire gets to extend its global hegemony to yet another nation. Inquam is partly owned by NextWave. DBD is a German firm. The auction offered 21 MHz for uplink and another 21 MHz for downlink, which is a lot of spectrum to play with on a national basis for broadband wireless. And competition could be fierce. Some regional licenses were also awarded to increase the pressure…..
Posted by: Axel Larator
In reply to: crashtestsuperstar who wrote msg# 58280
Date:12/17/2006 5:06:24 AM
Post # of 58655
…..Competition in Germany is Clearstream versus Deutsche Telekom. Clearstream will be killed in this process…….
schnizzle and sono even Rob expects
"some type of letter to be issued either by the CEO or Chairman,(as) both have told (him) they want to do something".
Just feeling like a sitting duck waiting for the good/bad news to come out from Superhub Headquarters!!!!
Agree entirely with your statement.
Just waiting and waiting and waiting.
Ready to wait a little bit longer, I just hope that when the next "letter to shareholders" comes it will justify the loooonnng silence from management.
GLTUAll!
Also (among other things) since November 20th we were notified that Dr. Alice H. Muntz has joined GlobeTel Communications’ Board of Directors. But her name is yet to be included in the Globetel web site roster at:
http://investor.globetel.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=67726&p=irol-governance
She is a VERY IMPORTANT person. To date her name has never been added to the BOD roster.
What are we waiting for??????
And for how long???????????????????????????????
JimProfit can you give an update on German WiMax licensing saga?
WiMax bandwidth licensing must be obtained prior to execution of any project based on Hot Zone technology on any of the
following BW channels: 1.75, 3.5 or 7 MHz.
Germany has yet to attribute BW channels for WiMax. And we are still hoping. JIMHO.
Hotzone requires WiMax for bachhauling either DETC, IPTv or WiFi.
GTEM is not in the retailing/distribution businness, the focus is on network revenue generation e.g. Stratevoip solutions and super-hub solutions.
Schnizzle when you state:
"Unfortunately, to me (IMO) it seems Germany is a failure (otherwise we would have heard) - there is no subscriber interest in GTEM' pilot network to fund further expansion....GTEM has probably not attracted significant subscriber interest to justify a wider rollout. This is hardly surprising considering the presence of D2 Vodafone & T-Mobile and thier established National penetration of GPRS and UMTS + Deutsche Telecom as the dominant 'wireline' broadband provider"
you are missing the point as you are comparing apple with organges, i.e. GTEM with existing providers.
In a mature market such as Germany the ball game is different than in Mexico. It is the bundle/package of services provided that can do the trick, again JIMHO.
By this I mean cheap broadband, long distance calling, IPTv, mobile telephony through a fully enabled Hotzone solution. The "superhub in short".
WiMax red tape is the most likely cause of the German delay.
Mexico roll out will not help as a "demonstrator" for Europe it will do for other South American countries though.
Have a nice WE.
Welcome to Joseph Seroussi, Management Team, Gotham Financial Services at: http://www.gothamfs.com/executive.htm
But before that put your tin foil hat on, think shell companies and wonder why GTEM had to do away with Magic Money.....???
Better integration, synergies, profit making potential somewhere else???
Again this was not Tim's call. Sorry about that really.
And now for a new Joseph, a president from the promised land! LOL
Quote"
Joseph Seroussi, President and Chief Technology Officer
"Joseph Seroussi, President of Gotham Financial Service, formerly President of the Magic Money Stored Value Division and CTO of Globetel Communications Corporation, possesses more than 25 years of experience in the management and structuring of processing and telecommunications operations and businesses. Mr. Seroussi was the CEO of Suprem Telecom Solutions, a joint venture with Group Ingedigit, a leading provider of financial and telecommunications products and services in Venezuela. Mr. Seroussi was the founder and CEO of Corporacion Transdata, a carrier, licensed to provide private data circuits in Venezuela. Mr. Seroussi worked for 15 years for Tadiran Limited, of Israel in R&D, Management and Business Development of Computing and Communications Systems.
Mr.Seroussi holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and an MS degree in Business Management from the Technion Polytechnic Institute of Israel. He is a retired officer of the Israel Defense Force."
Merlin, I look at the site whenever I have some time. It appears to me that the home page macromedia flash application has been revamped.
Not sure about the "demo version". Also some of the info is now inaccurate like when under "About us" the site states that
"Backed by our parent company, GlobeTel Communications Corporation, we've got the networking and infrastructure of a large corporation. GlobeTel is a diversified Telecommunications and Financial Services Company, publicly traded on the AMEX (GTE".
Guess I am just imagining things. LOL!
http://www.stratevoip.com/ has been revamped
Thanks Vern much appreciated especially coming from you. This lends a lot of credibility to the "red tape" factor as a major problem for R&D proof of concept as far as the Strat is concerned but not only.
I think delays in Hotzone deployment are also linked to regulatory issues specific to WiMax frequency deployment in a backhauling function for DECT.
I cannot answer this question. Vern should be able to offer some help here. Are some others with aviation experience.
Jim I was born in Caracas... Y como tal soy Caraqueno de nacimiento.
It is a good find. The Coreans have been working on airships as well as the Japanese since Sky Station.
What you have here is a Low Altitude Airship meant to hover at max 500 mts and monitor traffic and crime on behalf of the police force. Not bad as an intermediate step towards (later) reaching up to stratospheric levels..... LOL. Not yet not quite.
They have cameras and a command and control capability that is somewhere between a remote control 4WD and a model airplane. JIMHO again
The recreational thing here is packaged to a new scale with a clear public utility function.
As to SS we have enough expertise on board JIMHO at the engeneering level I mean, to feel confident that all what could be taken from Recreational/Sport Use of Model Airplanes technology has been taken already.
The environmental challenges at 65,000 feet is a different ball game though, there we need NASA expertise.
Or should I say a "different" expertise?
Sky, I am in a different time zone hence my delay in replying. Hope we do not end up as ships without lights sailing across in the middle of the night....
You can read the FAA text:
Unmanned Aircraft Operations in US Airspace here:
http://cryptome.org/faa021307.htm
I have been mining the FAA web site for "Unmanned Airships" there is nothing coming up on their radar screen that combines the two words above. We are in new territory IMHO.
The FAA is issuing (according to the text referenced above)
"Certificate(s) of Waiver or Authorization (COA's) for unmanned aircraft to operate in the National Airspace System"
AND the FAA
"anticipates issuing a record number of COA's this year"
NOW if the FAA can issue COAs for unmanned airships,
WELL ,,,,, then this IS OK WITH ME. LOL!
But I have no experience whatsoever on this matter.
That is why I was asking Vern for a take on this as we are for the moment left completely in the dark when it comes to PR and company statements.
And on this note I have to say that Press Releases are very good for employees too and team building.
By this I mean that the longer the KK brothers' silence lasts the more damage is brought to bear on the relationship with us long and rabid stakeholders, but also (and this can go unrecognized easily) they are DAMAGING another relationship with the company most important asset/constituency, i.e. their own employees.
After all it is no coincidence that, as Vern stated two days ago to Trade:
"Tradeforyourlife: You would be drop dead flabbergasted if you knew how many GTEM people are posting on these boards".
BTW if I were working for GTEM I would be reading and posting like crazy too.....
Any other aliases from GTEM willing to post a comment???
Lone Eagle???
Vern,
Greetings! The FAA has just issued guidelines for Unmanned Aircraft Operations. They include recognition of:
"Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operations in the U.S. National Airspace System--Interim Operational Approval Guidance'' (UAS Policy 05-01). In this document, the FAA set out guidance for public use of unmanned aircraft by defining a process for evaluating applications for Certificate(s) of Waiver or Authorization (COA's) for unmanned aircraft to operate in the National Airspace System.............
The FAA has issued more than 50 COA's over the past 2 years and
anticipates issuing a record number of COA's this year. For more information, Memorandum on UAS Policy (05-01) and other policy guidance is available at the FAA Web site: http://www.faa.gov/uas." See below for more info.
Also at http://tinyurl.com/2vjcgo
the FAA has a host of Airship Regulation and Policy Documents.
THE PROBLEM IS THAT THEY DO NOT SEEM TO HAVE ANYTHING ON UNMANNED AIRSHIP OPERATIONS.
The FAA lack of imagination is evident. And an airship needs a gondola and a person on the gondola to go walkabout otherwise forget it!
Quote"
[Federal Register: February 13, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 29)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 6689-6690]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
14 CFR Part 91
[Docket No. FAA-2006-25714; Notice No. 07-01]
Unmanned Aircraft Operations in the National Airspace System
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of policy; opportunity for feedback.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: This document clarifies the FAA's current policy concerning
operations of unmanned aircraft in the National Airspace System.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kenneth D. Davis, Manager, Unmanned
Aircraft Program Office, Aircraft Certification Service, Federal
Aviation Administration, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC
20591, (202) 385-4636, e-mail: kenneth.d.davis@faa.gov.
Background
Simply stated, an unmanned aircraft is a device that is used, or is
intended to be used, for flight in the air with no onboard pilot. These
devices may be as simple as a remotely controlled model aircraft used
for recreational purposes or as complex as surveillance aircraft flying
over hostile areas in warfare. They may be controlled either manually
or through an autopilot using a data link to connect the pilot to their
aircraft. They may perform a variety of public services: Surveillance,
collection of air samples to determine levels of pollution, or rescue
and recovery missions in crisis situations. They range in size from
wingspans of six inches to 246 feet; and can weigh from approximately
four ounces to over 25,600 pounds. The one thing they have in common is
that their numbers and uses are growing dramatically. In the United
States alone, approximately 50 companies, universities, and government
organizations are developing and producing some 155 unmanned aircraft
designs. Regulatory standards need to be developed to enable current
technology for unmanned aircraft to comply with Title 14 Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR).
The Federal Aviation Administration's current policy is based on
whether the unmanned aircraft is used as a public aircraft, civil
aircraft or as a model aircraft.
Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operating as Public Aircraft
The most common public use of unmanned aircraft today in the United
States is by the Department of Defense. U.S. operations in Iraq,
Afghanistan and elsewhere have fueled a huge increase in unmanned
aircraft demand. In Iraq alone, more than 700 unmanned aircraft are in
use for surveillance and weapons delivery.
Other agencies have also found public uses for unmanned aircraft.
For example, the Customs and Border Protection uses them to patrol
along the US/Mexican border. In the future, unmanned aircraft could be
used to provide first responder reports of damage due to weather or
other catastrophic causes.
In response to this growing demand for public use unmanned aircraft
operations, the FAA developed guidance in a Memorandum titled
``Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operations in the U.S. National Airspace
System--Interim Operational Approval Guidance'' (UAS Policy 05-01). In
this document, the FAA set out guidance for public use of unmanned
aircraft by defining a process for evaluating applications for
Certificate(s) of Waiver or Authorization (COA's) for unmanned aircraft
to operate in the National Airspace System. The concern was not only
that unmanned aircraft operations might interfere with commercial and
general aviation aircraft operations, but that they could also pose a
safety problem for other airborne vehicles, and persons or property on
the ground. The FAA guidance supports unmanned aircraft flight activity
that can be conducted at an acceptable level of safety. In order to
ensure this level of safety, the operator is required to establish the
Unmanned Aircraft System's (UAS) airworthiness either from FAA
certification, a DOD airworthiness statement, or by other approved
means. Applicants also have to demonstrate that a collision with
another aircraft or other airspace user is extremely improbable as well
as complying with appropriate cloud and terrain clearances as required.
Key to the concept are the roles of pilot-in-command (PIC) and
observer. The PIC concept is essential to the safe operation of manned
aircraft. The FAA's UAS guidance applies this PIC concept to unmanned
aircraft and includes minimum qualifications and currency requirements.
The PIC is simply the person in control of, and responsible for, the
UAS. The role of the observer is to observe the activity of the
unmanned aircraft and surrounding airspace, either through line-of-
sight on the ground or in the air by means of a chase aircraft. In
general, this means the pilot or observer must be, in most cases,
within 1 mile laterally and 3,000 feet vertically of the unmanned
aircraft. Direct communication between the PIC and the observer must be
maintained at all times. Unmanned aircraft flight above 18,000 feet
must be conducted under Instrument Flight Rules, on an IFR flight plan,
must obtain ATC clearance, be equipped with at least a Mode C
transponder (preferably Mode S), operating navigation lights and / or
collision avoidance lights and maintain communication between the PIC
and Air Traffic Control (ATC). Unmanned aircraft flights below 18,000
feet have similar requirements, except that if operators choose to
operate on other than an IFR flight plan, they may be required to pre-
coordinate with ATC.
The FAA has issued more than 50 COA's over the past 2 years and
anticipates issuing a record number of COA's this year.
For more information, Memorandum on UAS Policy (05-01) and other
policy guidance is available at the FAA Web site: http://www.faa.gov/uas
.
Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operating as Civil Aircraft
Just as unmanned aircraft have a variety of uses in the public
sector, their application in commercial or civil use is equally
diverse. This is a quickly growing and important industry. Under FAA
policy, operators who wish to fly an unmanned aircraft for civil use
must
[[Page 6690]]
obtain an FAA airworthiness certificate the same as any other type
aircraft. The FAA is currently only issuing special airworthiness
certificates in the experimental category. Experimental certificates
are issued with accompanying operational limitations (14 CFR 91.319)
that are appropriate to the applicant's operation. The FAA has issued
five experimental certificates for unmanned aircraft systems for the
purposes of research and development, marketing surveys, or crew
training. UAS issued experimental certificates may not be used for
compensation or hire.
The applicable regulations for an experimental certificate are
found in 14 CFR 21.191, 21.193, and 21.195. In general, the applicant
must state the intended use for the UAS and provide sufficient
information to satisfy the FAA that the aircraft can be operated
safely. The time or number of flights must be specified along with a
description of the areas over which the aircraft would operate. The
application must also include drawings or detailed photographs of the
aircraft. An on-site review of the system and demonstration of the area
of operation may be required. Additional information on how to apply
for an experimental airworthiness certificate is available from Richard
Posey, AIR-200, (202) 267-9538; e-mail: richard.posey@faa.gov."Unquote.
BINGO!
Preparing a JV,
Working on SSII propulsion and flying/buoyancy systems in Palmdale,
Getting FAA clearance,
Reviewing test protocols and command and control procedures for SSII EAFB testing,
Monitoring Centerline/Anywhere Calling expansion and managing it,
Germany,
Gabon,
what else?
Any insider willing to add more?
But silence like darkness is a big thing, we can barely wait to hear some news......
Rokcy's board was a work of passion
lost but not forgotten
gone but still lying in hope
making ready for a come back
Spring time
to celebrate re-birth and
a new cycle in the making
with success not far from sight
What if:
1)A JV is announced with VPN de Mexico
and
2) Sanswire II goes to Edwards for testing
Will Rokcy's board wake up again from its deep slumber?
PS:
It would a much better move/development than Rob moving to Florida! LOL
dean
"we have the pure posters mide and rocky who are valued here"
mide
"we police our own dogs"
rock
"hoax"
moonbeam
"got a call from M Katz" (and posts only once every year)
rob
"I guess the I-Hubbers needed a good mid Friday afternoon jolt of energy today. Have a great weekend."
Well I am impressed as low would say "GTEM is fun!"
And I would say much more. This is not bashing, this is
passion, revenge, betrayal, solitude, broken dreams, greed and the politics of power condensed in one dot
the birth of the universe, get ready for the big bang
PS: Greetings from Khasbeghi. The snow is great, the sky is blue and skying fantastic.
GTE Gotham Name Change on 11/29/2006 from:
Division of Corporations
GOTHAM INGEDIGIT FINANCIAL PROCESSING CORP. ...
NAME CHANGE, 11/29/2006,
OLD NAME WAS : GLOBETEL INGEDIGIT F.
AMENDMENT, INANCIAL PROCESSING CORP. ...
www.sunbiz.org/scripts/corevt.exe?a1=DETNAM&n1=P06000087646&n2=DOMP
Thanks a lot Rocky
An update on Blue Horizon, GTE and Silicon Valley.... old and new data.
1) Blue Horizon web site is down. What is going on? Any takers or givers?
2) Blue Horizon was partnering with GTE for Silicon Valley in May 2006 for a: PROPOSAL FOR A REGIONAL BROADBAND WIRELESS NETWORK FOR SILICON VALLEY.
Confidential proposal to San Mateo County Telecommunications Authority (SAMCAT) available at:
http://tinyurl.com/2zqpr6
Never heard of this before. Anybody willing to comment?
TIA
SEC again on the side of the lonely shareholders on today's NYT
At:http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/business/06wall.html?th&emc=th
S.E.C. Is Looking at Stock Trading
Article Tools Sponsored By
By JENNY ANDERSON
Published: February 6, 2007
The Securities and Exchange Commission has begun a broad examination into whether Wall Street bank employees are leaking information about big trades to favored clients, like hedge funds, in an effort to curry favor with those clients, executives at Wall Street banks said.
The inquiry, these people said, seems aimed at determining how pervasive insider trading, or the illegal use of market-moving nonpublic information, may be on Wall Street. Knowledge about a large trade, like the sale of a big block of stock by the mutual fund giant Fidelity, would tell a trader which way the stock would move.
Trading ahead of client orders, or front-running, has long been an issue on Wall Street. Large mutual fund companies have often complained in the past that Wall Street brokerage firms were front-running their trades, using information about the funds’ plans to buy or sell to make a risk-free bet on a stock’s direction...........
Absolutely agree, but there is substance.
Sirius,
agree, to me there is major web site overhaul in progress. I posted this yesterday
Posted by: montanar
In reply to: None
Date:2/4/2007 2:36:57 PM
Post # of 64001
Both Blue Horizon and GTEM web sites seem to be getting fresh updates.
1) GTEM Investors Relations, Corporate Governance, Board & Managment are getting new CVs pages for each member (many such pages are still empty though)
2) Blue Horizon is full of GTEM products under WiFi/WiMax. Did not see that before. Getting ready for Sacramento???
For example:
DECT from Blue Horizon at: http://www.bhgidev.com/html/BHGI_WI_PRODUCT_INDEX.htm
What was not said in GTEM and VPN de Mexico JV WiFi announcement of 30 January is that:
WiMax for backhauling is a “conditio sine qua non” for any Hot Zone application.
Any takers on this board willing to challenge the above statement?
Now if the above is true than the next four statements are correct:
1) Even if WiMax is not mentioned it must be inside the Hotzone box
2) WiMax bandwidth licensing must be obtained prior to execution of any project based on Hot Zone technology on any of the following BW channels: 1.75, 3.5 or 7 MHz
3) If WiMax BW licensing is obtained for any reasons, e.g. WiFi backhauling, than backhauling for DETC and IPTv usage is a piece of cake as far as Hot Zone technology is concerned.
4) Getting a licence for DETC Hot Zone application is a totally different red tape/ball game as you are impinging on the last mile turf zone of land line telephony and “traditional” telephone companies.
Here are the references from GTEM and Blue Horizon web sites for the above statement seeking clarification/confirmation.
a) From GTEM BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 31, 2007-
“VPN de Mexico S.A. de C.V. today announced that GlobeTel's HotZone based Wi-Fi test network, operational since October 2006, has been accepted by test sponsor VPN pursuant to a previous agreement between the companies.
The test network consists of HotZone 4010 base stations providing Wi-Fi access in the city of Pachuca ….. The network has been providing carrier class Internet access to those customers invited to participate in the testing at data rates up to 10 times that of the dial-up access otherwise available in the city.”
b) From Blue Horizon web site at: http://www.bhgidev.com/html/BHGI_WI_PRODUCT_INDEX.htm
Blue Horizon Products
Globetel Wireless makes the only hardware products in the world that includes Wi-Fi, WiMAX, DECT and IPTv. The product is called The Hot Zone 4010.
The 4010 is followed by the 4020 and by Q4 2006 is releasing the 5000 WiMAX. Yet all hardware products fit in one box, based on the design of the network different products can be placed in one box.
For example:
1. In a heavy DECT usage area you can have a box with multiple DECT cards and a WiMAX card for backhauling.
2. In a metropolitan area where you have heavy Wi-Fi usage then you populate the box with Wi-Fi cards and a WiMAX card for backhauling. EOM
Both Blue Horizon and GTEM web sites seem to be getting fresh updates.
1) GTEM Investors Relations, Corporate Governance, Board & Managment are getting new CVs pages for each member (many such pages are still empty though)
2) Blue Horizon is full of GTEM products under WiFi/WiMax. Did not see that before. Getting ready for Sacramento???
For example:
DECT from Blue Horizon at: http://www.bhgidev.com/html/BHGI_WI_PRODUCT_INDEX.htm
DECT
DECT is a mass market technology operating on a protected unlicensed spectrum. DECT spectrum is available in most countries of the world. More than 100 companies are involved in DECT product development.
DECT is the dominating and most proper technology for voice services (including mobility with seamless handover), for the local area.
DECT is also very suitable for real time and best effort data services below 1 Mbps. The strength for DECT is the unique capability to effectively combine high quality voice telephony with data services in the same base stations. This strength has not yet been fully utilized by existing applications and products such as web browsing, power control, alarm systems, etc.
Features
12 voice channels within 1880-1930 MHz (including US band)
250mW per channel
Appears as SIP or H.323 phone in IP side
Automatic login with prepaid card
Handover in Q2 2006
2 sectors per HotZone Router
Some musing, fun and food for thought prompted by the latest very positive events:
“Building the Super Hub is no longer a matter of R&D, it has now become tightly bundled to red tape issues. These are proving harder than expected and delaying proof of concept execution of the Super Hub everywhere and in more than one way.
Red tape has become very sticky indeed. The moment you go into execution with willing partners, you get a lot of it without the asking and very fast.
Whether is Magic Card in India, or WiMax in Germany or DETC (and land line telephony) in Mexico, red tape (and behind it, the power of incumbency) becomes the greatest enemy.
Now for some Red Tape imagery:
“Dark red clouds have broken promises (Russia),
Shredded the magic (India)
Delayed execution (Germany),
Obscured the vision (SEC),
Impeded the flight (FAA),
Broken the bundle (Mexico)
And brought hail and storm onto Huff.
After the storm only the freest clouds are still in the sky,
They turn out to be iffy, what am I saying whiffy,
Or was it huffy….. no actually, I am sorry
Really I meant WiFi
Sacred memento! I almost forgot what a hard day we had in Pachuca
And more hardship for sure, is just round the corner
But we will overcome,
And manage the bundle
We will succeed
Bungling along, trundging along
The lightest clouds in the sky
Glowing red bright
With speed and delight”
Finally:
“Guess the less regulated the market the more chances are on the company’s side.
So with or without strat is Ghana going to be the first pilot testing for the Super Hub bundle?”
Here is a bit of DD on this:
1) There is Ghana-German connection through Queen Gabriele Bansah of Hohoe (QGBH) and consort. QGBH was born in 1952 in Haan bei Düsseldorlf (check it out at http://www.davidlong.de/bansah/bansah/body_bansah.html)
2) Possibly QGBH and Uri Altvater are well connected
3) QGBH could be the same queen that Vern mentions in one of his posts
4) And the same woman from Ghana that imark posted about on 12.18.06 “A woman who was testing the phone service called her office in Ghana, and got through, but I don't know who she was”
5) Now Queen Gabriele Bansah of Hohoe founded in 1983, a consultancy company for computer projects in the business and industrial sector. Among other things, QGBH has trained managers in computer usage.
6) If you google “Qeen of Ghana and Globetel” you come across 1,190 references mostly financial scam like propositions. I was amazed at the number of times Globetel is linked to the “Magic Money” idea (anybody willing to dig more?)
7) If Huff is following Mexico, Uri is the German connection, who is in charge of Ghana? We have learnt all about ex Ambassadors but I never thought about Queens before.
Without bundling and the Super Hub but something refreshing from Meraki for the last mile and "only" for computers.
The Mexico drive is down the same slope as Meraki except that the buck does not stop there.
For the moment Mr Peralta said:
"A HotZone network will allow VPN to quickly establish a cost-effective wireless broadband infrastructure to provide its customers with broadband internet access to areas without infrastructure and areas currently supplying only basic dial up services,"
The NYT wrote on February 4, 2007
Wireless Internet for All, Without the Towers
By RANDALL STROSS
THESE still are early days for the Internet, globally speaking. One billion people online; five billion to go.
The next billion to be connected are living in homes that are physically close to an Internet gateway. They await a solution to the famous “last mile” problem: extending affordable broadband service to each person’s doorstep.
Here in the United States, 27 percent of the population lacks access to the Internet, according to a study completed last year by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Among those who do have access, about 30 percent still rely on slow dial-up connections. The last mile for households with no or slow connections may be provided by radio signals sent out by transmitters perched atop street lights, as hundreds of cities have rolled out municipal Wi-Fi networks, or are in the process of doing so.
The impulse behind these projects is noble. It’s a shame, however, that lots of street lamps and lots of dollars — a typical deployment in an urban setting will run $75,000 to $125,000 a square mile, just to install the equipment — do not really solve the last-mile problem.
If you’re sitting with your laptop at an outside cafe, you’ll be happy with the service. But if you happen to be at home, you realize that service to the doorstep is not enough: you still need to buy equipment to bolster the signal and solve the “last mile plus 10 more yards” problem — that is, getting coverage indoors.
Wi-Fi signals do not bend, and you usually can’t get much of a useful bounce from them, either. Because Wi-Fi uses unlicensed bands of the radio spectrum, by law it must rely on low-power transmitters, which reduce its ability to penetrate walls. Travel-round-the-world shortwave, this ain’t.
Trying to cover a broad area with Wi-Fi radio transmitters set atop street lights brings to mind a fad of the 1880s: attempts to light an entire town with a handful of arc lights on high towers. But overeager city boosters around the country soon discovered that shadows obscured large portions of their cities, and the lighting was not as useful as had been expected. Municipal Wi-Fi on streetlamps, another experiment with top-down delivery, may run a similarly short-lived — and needlessly expensive — course.
WiMax, which will be a high-power version of the tower approach, comes in two flavors: mobile, which has not yet been certified, and fixed, which is theoretically well suited for residential deployment. Unfortunately, it’s pricey. Peter Bell, a research analyst at TeleGeography Research in Washington, said fixed WiMax would not be able to compete against cable and DSL service: “It makes more economic sense in semirural areas that have no broadband coverage.”
An intriguingly inexpensive alternative has appeared: a Wi-Fi network that is not top-down but rather ground-level, peer-to-peer. It relies not on $3,500 radio transmitters perched on street lamps by professional installers but instead on $50 boxes that serve, depending upon population density, more than one household and can be installed by anyone with the ease of plugging in a toaster.
Meraki Networks, a 15-employee start-up in Mountain View, Calif., has been field-testing Wi-Fi boxes that offer the prospect of providing an extremely inexpensive solution to the “last 10 yards” problem. It does so with a radical inversion: rather than starting from outside the house and trying to send signals in, Meraki starts from the inside and sends signals out, to the neighbors.
Some of those neighbors will also have Meraki boxes that serve as repeaters, relaying the signal still farther to more neighbors. The company equips its boxes with software that maintains a “mesh network,” which dynamically reroutes signals as boxes are added or unplugged, and as environmental conditions that affect network performance fluctuate moment to moment.
At this time last year, two of Meraki’s co-founders — Sanjit Biswas and John Bicket — were still Ph.D. students at M.I.T., pursuing academic research on wireless mesh networks in the course of building Roofnet, an experimental network that covered about one-third of Cambridge, Mass., and offered residents free service. Last year, Google invited Mr. Biswas to give a presentation about his experience providing wireless Internet service to low-income communities. At the time, Google was testing its first municipal Wi-Fi network in its hometown, Mountain View, Calif., using transmitters attached to street lamps.
After Mr. Biswas’s talk, a Google engineer told him that people using Google’s network said they could get online at home only by holding their laptops against a window. Mr. Biswas said he was not surprised. Using municipal Wi-Fi for residential coverage, he said, was “the equivalent of expecting street lamps to light everyone’s homes.” Mr. Biswas and Mr. Bicket realized that their mesh-network gear designed for residential use could avoid that problem, and hasten the extension of Internet access worldwide. They founded Meraki, took a leave of absence from M.I.T. and, along with a third co-founder, Hans Robertson, moved to Silicon Valley. In short order, Google and then Sequoia Capital, one of Google’s original venture capital backers, invested in Meraki.
Moore’s Law, with its regular doubling of transistors on a single silicon chip, makes possible the miracle of a Meraki “mini,” as the company calls its basic product for the home. It contains a Wi-Fi router-on-a-chip, combined with the same microprocessor and same memory that formed the heart of a Silicon Graphics workstation 10 years ago. These components are now cheap enough today to be included in a box that sells for $49. The fact that 200 million Wi-Fi chips will be manufactured this year leads to economies of scale that will drive down the price of extremely intelligent network equipment. Meraki’s products are still being tested, but word-of-mouth has attracted 15,000 users in 25 countries.
One early adopter was Michael Burmeister-Brown, a director of NetEquality, a nonprofit in Portland, Ore., that provides free Internet access to low-income neighborhoods. He had not been impressed by Portland’s municipal Wi-Fi service. Because the Wi-Fi transmitter has to be both close and within unobstructed view, the limitations brought to Mr. Burmeister-Brown’s mind the sign on the back of 18-wheel trucks: “If you can’t see my mirror, I can’t see you.” In Portland, the access points were installed only at every other intersection in residential areas — creating an “I can’t see you” problem. MetroFi, the service provider, advises residents who are not close to a transmitter to buy additional equipment to pull in the signal, with a starting price of $119 — and that is without the “professional installation” option.
For NetEquality, Mr. Burmeister-Brown decided to try out the Meraki equipment in several neighborhoods. In the largest, consisting of about 400 apartments, five DSL lines were used to feed 100 Meraki boxes, which cover the complex with a ratio of one box to every four apartments. Each box both receives the signal and passes it along, albeit at diminished strength. For an initial investment of about $5,000, or $13 a household, the complex can offer Internet access whose operating costs work out to about $1 a household a month.
The bandwidth can match DSL service, but here it is throttled down a bit to deter bandwidth-hogging downloads. Nonetheless, Mr. Burmeister-Brown says everyone is able to enjoy Web browsing with what he describes as “really snappy response.” The sharing of signals among neighbors does not compromise privacy if standard Wi-Fi security protocols are switched on.
Meraki’s products are not yet for sale, and its networks have not been tested with extensive deployment across a large city. Nonetheless, the intrinsic advantages of its grass-roots approach, with next-to-nothing expenditures for both equipment and operations, are impossible to ignore. MR. BISWAS says there are about 800 million personal computers in the world, but only 280 million are connected. The rest are “stuck in the 1980s” — close to being connected, but not quite.
Meraki does not wish to go into the Internet service provider business itself, but it aspires to equip any interested nontechnical person to become a “micro” service provider for his or her local community. If the provider wishes to use advertising to cover costs rather than charge an access fee, little would be needed in order to cover the minimal outlays for equipment and operations. This low-cost network model offers the prospect of broadband service reaching inside many more households. One billion and one. One billion and two. One billion and three ... . Randall Stross is an author based in Silicon Valley and a professor of business at San Jose State University. E-mail: stross@nytimes.com.
Alex,what is your take on Hotzone being validated in Mexico as a wifi solution?
Vern, just waiting for you to pop up and you did it!
Your direct knowledge of the inner workings of the company and what drives people like Huff have been a great comfort during the last three months.
I am extremely happy for Huff and your take on him, especially considering the most recent news and developments.
As Low said "Thus an increase in the VOIP sector & Strat sector and now wifi sector" has not reflected in the share price.
But the man behind the vision is still there and the vision is becoming reality.
And you have always stood by the man, no matter what.
This is a great story unfolding!
Low from a munchkin that has greatly enjoyed reading your posts today (and hope you are still there in the night): when you say:
"My posts tonight are to say, don't trust!! Trade when it happens!"
What is your take on Huff?
Do you still trust him?
And if you or if you do not, why do think he is still with GTEM?
Guess he is and will remain a munchkin and a happy one at that!
At the end it is all about trust....
i.e. Do shareholders trust the management and R&D/technology of GTEM? Thanks to some of those posting here on IHub, I still do.
But hell! Wouldn't I love to get some news from our new CEO!
KK boys come on, say something!
Please!
1. The Hard Rain That's Falling on Capitalism
By BEN STEIN NYT January 29, 2007
==========================================================
You may be a businessman or some high-degree thief,
They may call you doctor or they may call you chief
But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You're gonna have to serve somebody,
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you're gonna have to serve somebody.
Bob Dylan,
"Gotta Serve Somebody"
A few evenings ago, my wife and I were standing in the
kitchen of our home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., feeding our
voracious hounds, when a song came on the radio. It goes, "If
only you believe in miracles, baby, so would I ... "
Suddenly a flood of thoughts came into my head. I put on my
swim trunks, and even though it was 42 degrees outside, I got
into my superheated pool and swam, looking up at the stars,
and this is what I thought:
My whole life is a miracle so far. I live in glorious houses
- tar-paper shacks by hedge fund standards, but plenty for
me. I have a great American-made car. Above all, I have the
most wonderful wife and the handsomest son on the planet.
My parents had a great, super life. They went from obscurity
and lower-middle-class status in the Great Depression to fame
and fortune in the postwar period. Their good fate was
attributable mostly to their genius and hard work, but also
to two culprits usually criticized in the media: President
Richard M. Nixon, who made my father famous and powerful, and
variable annuities, which made him and my mom well-to-do.
Thanks to Nixon's appointing Pop as chairman of the Council
of Economic Advisers and to TIAA-CREF selling Mom and Pop
those annuities, their latter decades were happy and comfy.
(In the interest of full disclosure, I am the honorary
spokesman for the National Retirement Planning Coalition, one
of whose many sponsors is the National Association for
Variable Annuities.)
All of the miracles of our lives are because of America and
our ancestors' lucky, brilliant decision to move here from
the desperation of Eastern Europe. All of it is thanks to the
brave men and women who fought and died and bled on World War
II battlefields like Anzio and Tarawa to keep us free, and to
the framers of the Constitution.
But it's also thanks to capitalism. I realized this as I swam
back and forth in my pool looking up at the stars and the
contrails. Under capitalism, my grandparents, my parents and
I could be paid the value of what we produced.
Their (our) income and position in life were (are) a function
of what value we could add, not of the status of poor
stateless Jews that we would have been in Europe.
Capitalism values people as individuals according to
contract, as we lawyers and economists learn, not according
to the status of our birth. This in itself is a miracle.
This miracle has been vibrant in the lives of hundreds of
millions of Americans who have gone from nothing to
something, thanks to the dynamics of capitalism. They have
seen their pay rise and they have been able to convert their
sweat and toil and creativity into capital by saving and
investing in the stock market and becoming capitalists
themselves - myself.
The system of capitalism is wide open. If you have an idea,
you can turn it into capital.
But, as I swam and watched the private jets' lights as they
glided right above my head into Palm Springs International
Airport, I had a chilling thought: in capitalism, the most
fundamental building block is trust.
When yeoman farmers sent their savings to banks in London and
Glasgow and Paris, they had to be able to count on it not
being stolen. That was what allowed capital to be accumulated
and deployed, and for the entire world economy to take off.
When I see what the top dogs at all too many corporations are
now doing to that trust, I feel queasy. Outrageous - yes,
obscene - pay. Greedy backdating of stock options, which in
my opinion is straight-up theft. Managers buying assets from
their trustors, the stockholders, at pennies on the dollar,
then forestalling competing bids with lockups and insane
breakup fees.
These misdeeds and many, many more are hammer blows at the
granite foundation of trust we built in the 1940s and '50s.
How long democratic capitalism can survive these blows before
it gives in and gives birth to revolution or to an out-and-
out aristocracy, I am not sure.
Empires come and go. Economic systems come and go. There is
no heavenly guarantee that capitalism will last forever as we
know it.
It's built on man's notion that he can trust his neighbor
with his money, and that if the neighbor misbehaves, the law
will chase him and catch him, and that the ladder of law has
no top and no bottom, that even the nobles get properly
handled (Bob Dylan again) once they have been caught.
If that trust disappears - if the system is no longer a
system for the ordinary citizen but only for the tough guys -
how much longer can the miracle last?
EACH day's newspaper, it seems, brings more tidings of
unrestrained selfishness and self-dealing and rafts of
powerful people saying it's good for us to be robbed if only
we truly understood the system.
The problem is, we're getting to understand it all too well.
And there is no one in Washington - absolutely no one - to
help.
Guess there was a billing problem with Magic Money software too....
Painful recollections and missed opportunities. The past and the present: sell the roomer, buy the gnus!
On March 31, 2006 our beloved leader and saviour past Chairman of the Board R. Dumas wrote to us:
“Magic Money_ Stored Value Division. After two years of long, hard, technical and regulatory brain damage, Division Head Joseph Serrousi and his team have reached “lift off.” Magic Money_ has produced what seems to us to be immediate potential for almost unprecedented revenue generation linked to the digital sorcery of our GlobeTel Magic Money_ system. What has been sculpted, shaped and developed over these two long years — at great R&D expense — is a digital system which gives us the ability to reach that 90% of the global population that is “un-banked” and that, as a result, has absolutely no access to bank accounts, credit cards, affordable telephony or reasonably-priced money-remittance mechanisms.
In an exclusive Joint Venture with Travelex, the world’s largest retail foreign exchange business, our Stored Value Division has just installed our first Point-of- Sale terminals located in what will eventually be more than 6,000 retail locations around the U.S., allowing this un-banked community to “load” (endow with value) their Magic Money_ digital cards which will, in turn, give these customers the ability to access lowcost, pre-paid, VoIP telephony services from any phone-box in the world and, separately, to transfer moderate amounts of money around the world (under $5,000 in order to fully conform to the Patriot Act, FDIC and other federal and state regulations relating to money movements) to their friends and to their family members at very low cost. And all of this will be processed through our MasterCard_ certified switch, which will take over transaction processing this month.”
This week the respected magazine “Economist” tell us that America's money-transfer business when it comes to those who serve the unbanked, is going down the drain too, just see below. But before you do that, send a painful thought of unlimited frustration to GTEM management and J. Serrousi, who not even a year ago, given a splendid opportunity managed to bungle it all.
One more week has passed and no news whatsoever……. Difficult really.
By the way where is Travelex??????
Check for cheque-cashers
Jan 11th 2007 | NEW YORK
From The Economist print edition
Those who serve the unbanked find themselves unbanked, too
NO INNER-CITY area in America is complete without a sprinkling of cheque-cashing shops and money-transfer agents. Yet these days so-called money-service businesses (MSBs) are the unacceptable face of high-street finance. Many banks have stopped offering accounts to them, citing regulatory concerns.
Money-service firms play an important role, serving poor urban, often immigrant, customers whose access to banks is limited. For many, they are the only means of getting cash or sending remittances to family abroad. They are also a big business: in 2005, in New York State alone, money transmitters processed over 92m transactions together worth $96 billion.
Just as the unbanked need MSBs, so MSBs need banks: without access to payments systems, they cannot clear cheques or wire cash. But this access, by making them portals to the banking system, also makes them vulnerable to money launderers and financiers of terrorism.
Since the attacks of September 11th 2001, regulators have got a lot tougher when implementing anti-money laundering provisions. The Patriot Act, passed in the wake of the atrocity, added greatly to the pressure on banks to scrutinise their customers, and their customers' customers; it became, as one banker put it, a bit like a rail company being told it had to know everyone on its trains.
The result has been that most banks have closed their doors to the industry. JPMorgan Chase, a big provider of MSB accounts, did so in 2005. Bank of America followed last year, after concluding that the profits on offer no longer matched the increased risks. A few prefer to do the job themselves: HSBC has a service called Easy-Send, popular with Mexicans, which allows clients to wire money abroad.
Though a few sizeable banks still serve MSBs, they have become much choosier about who they will touch. David Landsman of the National Money Transmitters Association (NMTA), a trade group, says his members are rejected 94% of the time when trying to open bank accounts. Regina Stone, who licenses MSBs at the New York State Banking Department, says this has led to levels of concentration that need to be watched. A single bank now serves 70% of the state's cheque cashers, for instance; they would struggle to find new banks if it, too, quit the business.
The most frustrating thing, says Kevin Neuschatz of Choice Money Transfer, a remittance firm, is the indiscriminate nature of the regulatory crackdown. To get a state licence, MSBs have to go through a gruelling vetting process. Yet the law treats all money-service firms—from public companies like Western Union and MoneyGram to dodgier single-branch outfits—as one high-risk lump.
Even the most sophisticated MSBs face legal nasties: the state of Arizona seized some of Western Union's transfers to Mexico as part of a probe into illegal immigrants, though a court ruled this week that it had no authority to do so.
Some regulators talk of a crisis for MSBs, but there is no consensus on how to make life easier for them. Diana Taylor, New York's superintendent of banks, has recommended narrowing the definition of a high-risk money firm and offering incentives to banks to serve MSBs. The NMTA is urging the introduction of a federal bill that would give more guidance to banks. Charles Rangel, the new chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, supports the cause. But it is not clear whether he would sponsor the legislation.
Meanwhile, some MSBs, fearing that the issue will never gain political traction, are taking matters into their own hands. A dozen firms in New York have joined together to apply for a banking licence. Do-it-yourself may soon be the only option"Unquote.
Mide, really nice to be able to read your posts again. Thank you. Hope this message reaches you in the middle of a starry night.
As often is the case, we are in full anti-climax with a poor recognition factor of where we are at the moment.
Here are some three reasons:
a) Lack of trust and confidence in GTEM because of broken deadlines and failed deals
b) More then imperfect information, in fact an almost complete black-out on financial/company news because of the SEC investigation
c) An unrecognized (worse, never really spelled out clearly by new management) but permanent state of Research and Development. This R&D mode is essential and a "real" strength of this company, except that prolonged "darkness is a bad thing" and allows for both expectations and frustrations to grow exponentially.
Against this background your new post and Vern's "last post" find me in perfect agreement. Guys unless Sanswire II crashes for lack of engineering DD we have bottomed out.
As you say
"It does not appear to me that we are in a "turtle" mode, or a "fire sale" mode, but in a whole new growth mode. It is beginning to me to seem that we have a fresh start "Kick Butt" mode in drive. It may be only 12 stores, and we are still awaiting news on other fronts, but why develop a new product if you have no future based on your past efforts? My guess is the new team in Dodge thinks we have the goods Huff promised all along...otherwise...why bother?
Now with or without Mexico and/or Germany we are floating and ready to ascend.
Children of all ages fasten your seat belts!
PS:
And a big thank to Rob for passing on the "kitchen side" of the story on our GTEM employees aka "passive investors" in Metro_PCS.
"Mr Serenity Now" keep talking please!
I remain yours truly "active IHubber investor"
frank, both mide and vern posts below were deleted.
While I agree that they may be strictly off topic when it comes to discussing about the stock, any of the information posted is really a personal opinion. And discussion boards are as much about the information posted as they are about the quality of the person posting it.
When well informed, qualified and respected posters choose to inform others on this board, that they are going to stop posting and they do it in a (very) civilized manner, well I consider their last post as relevant and important information.
Not so much dealing with the stock per se, but as an indicator of the quality of the board itself and of those moderating it. An indication that there is a deterioration in the quality of the board in question.
And I am sorry and concerned about it.
It may in fact be disturbing to you as a moderator because it points the finger at you as well, but if you look at it as a signal that something is wrong, than it calls for remedial and positive action.
frank please take the pressure and with the help of all of us try to bring them back on board.
As a sign of goodwill on your side I would kindly request you to reinstate both posters below, where they belong, i.e. on this board
Thanks in advance for your support and understanding.
Posted by: vkoenig
In reply to: None Date:1/23/2007 1:12:10 PM
Post #of 62392
I think that I'm going to go the route of Mide and stop posting here. I
believe that GTEM is trying to get the Strat flying as quickly as they
can. I also believe that it will be successful.
I am getting tired of all the accusations and insinuations written by
several morons on this board and would rather devote my time to
something more productive than furthering an argument.
In closing, I think that GTEM will ultimately triumph over the SEC
investigation as well as the class action lawsuit. The Strat will come
through as designed and open up a new era in cellular
telecommunications.
Good luck to you all.
Posted by: mide
In reply to: None
Date:1/4/2007 8:10:23 PM
Post # of 60803
I am no longer going to post on this board.
m That is the end. Over and out.
Pachuca location is old news, managment sent out the message to this board through Rocky last December i.e. more than a month ago.
I think the question is not where, but what is happening in Pachuca?
Quote"
Posted by: WIDD
In reply to: None Date:12/13/2006 3:07:07 PM Post #of 62172
Has anyone found out what city?partner?or how many subs gtem has in the Mexico build out of the totally operational hot zone 15 cloud wimax wifi dect service? 2 weeks ago and counting! But its been going on since OCT! Go GTEM! This is just a Question From A true long! NO pumpin or pimpin please.
Posted by: rocky301
In reply to: WIDD who wrote msg# 57289 Date:12/13/2006 3:21:58 PM
Post #of 62172
WIDD,
The City is Pachuca."Unquote.
Anywherecaller plan and Q2 Fiscal Results. Connecting the dots on scant evidence but, it looks like the “maxing out” of Centerline by Tim and Joe has been fully successful and has created excess capacity.
Quote from Second Quarter Fiscal 2006 Results:
"We had originally expected our Centerline subsidiary to reach $350,000 per month in net operating profit by the end of June. While Centerline was profitable for the quarter and continues to increase its profits, it did not meet the expected net operating profit. During the quarter, Centerline 'maxed out' the capacity of its third party billing software sooner than anticipated. A new system that would not only accommodate our anticipated growth, but also integrate with GTE's corporate accounting system, was implemented during the quarter. The new software required a 60-day testing and implementation period that is now complete. Both the old and new systems had to run concurrently during this period to identify any possible defects and corrections needed in the new system. During this time, we were not able to bring on new Centerline clients, hampering our ability to increase profits. We can now, however, accommodate Centerline's increased billing needs moving forward, in real time, and have realized gains in billed minutes since the changeover to the new system.”
Unquote.
And Danielle did state two days ago (unproven) Centerline profitability after talking to Rob.....
And improving third pary billing capacity is not a bad idea. LOL!
So far so good
Thanks Rock personally I value each and one of your posts and would miss you sorely were you to stop posting.
Lots of comfort there and GLTUA
GTEM IAD-200X products on sale to the public at special discount rates on the voipconnection.com. Check it out at:
http://www.thevoipconnection.com/store/customer/search.php?substring=IAD-200X+&x=13&y=11
Also (and this was posted before), but for those who missed it, it is worth a look, there is at least one testimony that there are people out there buying and writing about GTEM products....
Quote"
There are only a handful of IAX-capable ATAs on the market, so selecting was relatively easy. I went with the GlobeTelX IAD-200X (made by GlobeTel) for a variety of reasons. For one thing, it offered the best bang-for-the-buck with two lines and a built-in NAT router. It’s also nice to know that there’s a US-based, English-speaking support operation in Florida.
I bought my IAD-200X from The Voip Connection and it arrived well-packed and on-time a week later. Upon opening the box, I was delighted to see that it included a non-wall-wart (desktop-style) wide-input-range switching power supply, as well as beefy, well-constructed plug adapters for EU, UK and Austrailian power jacks. I was a little less-than-delighted to find that it didn’t include a user’s manual or CD-ROM containing one, but a quick visit to The Voip Connection’s web site netted me a digital copy. (Update 2006-11-05 - TheVoipConnection has since also published the installation manual for IAD-200X, as well.)"Unquote.
Check it out at:
http://www.daverea.com/?page_id=230
and follow the links in the text!
Risk you wrote "A complete turnover of staff ? nope"
This statement is totally incorrect.
And the opposite is what keeps me long with this company nothing else at the moment. It is the people working for GTEM.
The moment folks like Eric Heininger leave, I leave.
The whole Sanswire team is still there and going strong, an (almost) fully assembled bird is there for all to be seen and according to Vern a "real" demonstrator in the making.
Tim, Joe the people at the heart of the Superhub vision are still there.
The turnover has been where it should have been, at the ex Ambassadorial level, the high flying non performing jet setters. Their connections and promises of contracts left behind as empty words haunting the company.
We have new comers on the side that matters: like Patrick D. Heyn member of the Company's Audit Committee, McKean, Paul, Chrycy, Fletcher & Co. a new accounting firm and really cherry on the cake Alice H. Muntz a heavvy weight telco scientist and a woman!
The first woman ever making it to the BOD.
So far so good.
"High growth network using (existing) in-house personnel and hardware."
Cool you are spot on in more than one way.
We are leveraging acquired experience and hardware towards expanding low cost/no limit call capacity for the same "niche sector migrant population" that has been at the centre of grand-old GTE.
But demo time is running short and GTEM aka Huff has yet to demonstrate the full potential for "network revenue generation" that goes with the vision DETC/Hotzone/WiMax/Strat.
This is the main problem, how much demo-time is left before the technology becomes obsolete? We need a real breakthrough.
This PR is not a breakthrough.... but at least is consistent.
In terms of area of the States chosen: why Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex area, I have no idea.