Another piece of the puzzle falls into place. We have pointed out shorters and shills as two sources of attacks on DGIV. Now here is the third, which in my opinion is a major reason for the latest flood of attacks: competitors.
The international VoIP marketplace is heating up, and there is cutthroat competition. Competitors are very fearful of DGIV's market penetration, and are responding through attacks. It is early in the game, but the small upstarts like DGIV are already loading the bases! But don't take my word for it, let me quote from the June 29 edition of Business Week, which focuses on telcom competition in Germany.
Title: A Heyday for Upstarts in Europe. Fledging carriers are swiping the monopolies' customers.
As you see from this title alone, DGIV's success means fewer companies for the monopolies. And we see the attack on DGIV from some who allege to be telcom specialists. Connect the dots? 
Let me continue with excerpts from the article:
"It's the kind of get-rich quick story you don't often hear in Europe. Two brithers and a friend turned a couple of family-owned electronics stores in Cologne and Munich into an alternative phone company four years ago. On April 22, they took Drillisch public, selling a thrid of the company on Germany's Neuer Markt for 28.7 million. The three partners, all in their 30's, pocketed 11.4 million and are pouring the rest into new gear to go an the attack against giant Deutsche Telekom. What made the young founders so wealthy was the final stage of European telecommunications deregulation, which took effect on Jan 1. Deregulation has touched off a competitive frenzy in Continental Europe. Indeed, experts say competition in the 200 billion dollar telcom market is building far faster thanb it did in the earky stages of U.S. and British deregulation. Change that occurred in a four-to-five year period in the U.S. and Britain is being compressed into 12 months in Germany and two years in France."
That puts into perspective why the German government was willing to grant preliminary approval to a $25M financing package to DGIV to establish an IP network in Germany headquartered in Potsdam. They need to go through this transition in 12 months, and DGIV is there, is there now, and has the people, the resources, and the knowledge to get the job done!
Let me continue from the article:
"Germany, for instance, has opened its telecom market much wider than Britain, allowing upstart rivals cheap, almost unfettered access to provide services on Deutsche Telekom's network."
Now, it sure looks to me like DGIV is one of those upstart rivals :-)
Continuing:
"Another factor: worry among regulators and givernment officials that withough state-of-the-art telecommunications technology and services, Europe will be at an economic disadvantage."
As we have said, the Europeans are worried about U.S. telecomm giants coming in with the latest technology and taking over their deregulated networks. So their answer is to work with small innovative companies with state-of-the-art technology (e.g., DGIV) to cooperatively develop their own deregulated companies and compete in this new battleground.
The artcle continues, quoting from Deutsche Telekom that they are under "very heavy competition," are "fighting for every customer," and that "similarly, cutthroat competition is likely to spread across the Coninent."
I could go on, but you get the point. DGIV is part of the new telecomm competition, we are in on the ground floor, and we are seeing some of that economic warfare, some of that cutthroat competition, right here on our own little DGIV thread. It's exciting, isn't it?
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