Friday's launch will be just the beginning!
sure there are a lot of daytraders and shorts that will give us a substantial pullback at some point, but most are missing the hidden agenda in ONT's press releases to date. Most of them have been B2B deals that don't need the web site to be open to sound viable. But once the site is open, we will hear of all the content related companies interested in working with ONT, who all need the web site open in order to justify their decision to their shareholders.
tonight on CBS they did a special on silicon alley here in N.Y.C. USA, and it was almost embarressing to see this up to date news program show streaming video in (now thanks to ONT obsolete) RealNetworks choppy, windowed crap. Just you wait till the same media takes a gander at the possibilites ONT's CODEC will present to the industry, and you'll realize that Friday is not the end, but just the beginning. You can call it hype if you like, but the product speaks for itself, and NOBODY can dispute it's superiority.
Everytime the likes of TimeWarner or NorthPoint shows off it's Streaming Media capabilities using ONT's CODEC and distribution systems, this stock will win over new shareholders who will only be glad to take shares out of the hands of fast and loose daytraders.
One thing many underestimate is the speed in which the infrustructure industry is rushing to impliment DSL and other broadband technologies. I know this first hand because my company builds this infrustructure for all the big players here in New York, and we have crews working as long and fast as possible putting new fiber&taps in the ground, along with thousends of wireless repeaters for the infrustructers own use, and many have even sold the rights to their dark fibers even before the asphalt is closed over the cable trough. Laying new 432 strand cable in the Winter is usually avoided, accept by companies terrified of missing this revolution which is coming in a matter of quarters, not years.
I have CLECS and DSL companies calling me now almost as often as toner cartridge saleman, all desperate to be chosen to be my Broadband provider. I come home to junk mail from CLECS and the local phone companies giving free installation, and other deals if only I sign up for DSL with them, before my local Cable company offers the Broadband connection over my Coax. This phenomenon is quickly taking root in most metropolitan areas this year, and if you have not noticed it yet, then maybe you should have your neighbors write to Kovad or a Bell, and you'll get it soon enough. Believe it or not, I wrote to RCN trying to get them in my building at home, and they are doing the right of way wiring now, because my urging got them to tap the fiber that would have passed my building.
Pardon the rambling, but if you think that ONT, and other broadband industry companies are mearly flashes in the pan, or this months flavor of the month on Wall Street, then you should seriously reconsider. Current 56K Modem access reminds me of the good old 640k memory limit that we all suffered thru MSDOS in the 1980's. Broadband will be the Window'95 (that allowed the PC Industry to Explode thru the 1990's) of the Internet that finally takes away most limitations and helps make so much more possible online.
What is most interesting about ONT is that it's CODEC allows the worst Broadband connection speed of 'only' 300-400K, which is at the low end of what's being offered. This even enables the crappiest distribution mediams, wireless and satellite systems that currently peak at 400K, to participate in the streaming media revolution, albeit with a superior window'ed or interlaced image. I hope I've persuaded you to try to hold at least half your stock thru next week; hopefully, you'll thank me. Good Luck. |