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Technology Stocks : Nuevo Grupo Iusacell (CEL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: slacker711 who wrote (48)	2/14/2000 12:27:00 AM
From: Rob Preuss	Respond to of 206

Stockman provided 2 responses to the question of CEL Market Cap... here they are: 1st response: The Market cap on CEL is based on 123 million shares outstanding..not 58 million as we used on Stocko.com..we just have not yet corrected that calculation on the day we made our buy recommendation. We used bloomberg for the shares outstanding. Hoovers has the right numbers and financials. Bloomberg is off on shares outstanding. quote.bloomberg.com g&ticker=CEL#NEWS hoovers.com Stockman. 2nd response: Each CEL Adr represents 10 shares traded on the Mexican Market. Barrons this week covered the Mexican Telecom market. Some talked about coverage on GBT in Barrons. 123 x24.374= 2.99 Billion Market Cap for CEL Still the cheapest/subscriber Stockman

To: slacker711 who wrote (48)	2/14/2000 12:47:00 PM
From: Rob Preuss	Respond to of 206

[Morgan starts CEL with "Buy" recommendation. Target: $32/sh.] Monday February 14, 12:00 pm Eastern Time RESEARCH ALERT-Nuevo Grupo Iusacell started at buy NEW YORK, Feb 14 (Reuters) - J.P. Morgan said on Monday that analyst Jose Linares started research coverage of Nuevo Grupo Iusacell (NYSE:CEL - news) with a buy rating and a $32 price target for its American Depositary Receipts. -- The company is Mexico's second largest cellular operator. Earlier Iusacell said it will offer its customers satellite telephone systems from Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. (NasdaqNM:GSTRF - news) that use land-based CDMA technology for communications within the cellular coverage area of Iusacell. -- Iusacell's five-year compound annual earnings before interest, taxes depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) is expected to grow at 28.5 percent, excluding PCS wireless technology (Personal Communications Services), which Iusacell plans to start developing in the third quarter of 2000. -- Iusacell has been EBITDA positive since it went public. -- ADRs of the company were up 3/4 at 25 in trade on the New York Stock Exchange.

To: slacker711 who wrote (48)	2/24/2000 4:35:00 PM
From: Rob Preuss	Respond to of 206

Thursday February 24 3:28 PM ET Mexico Cellular Firms to Compensate for Bad Service By Fiona Ortiz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's two largest cellphone firms have agreed to give angry customers free minutes to try to make up for months of bad service, officials said on Thursday. The free minutes will go to cellular customers in Mexico City, where a boom in cellphone subscribers last year taxed existing networks and led to a plague of dropped calls, constant busy signals and uncompleted calls. Telcel, part of telecommunications giant Telmex (NYSE:TMX - news), and rival Iusacell (NYSE:CEL - news) ``recognized they were slightly below minimum quality levels established for cellphone companies ... and agreed to pay users compensation in April and May,' government regulator Jorge Nicolin told a news conference. Nicolin is president of Mexico's Federal Telecommunications Commission (COFETEL). Cellphone subscribers in Mexico climbed to 7.625 million last year, an increase of some 128 percent over 1998, fueled partly by a new ``calling party pays' system whereby cellphone owners no longer had to pay for calls they received. As the number of subscribers soared, the Federal Consumer Protection Agency received more than 3,300 complaints about service last year, and in January Cofetel began a call monitoring program in the capital. The program found that the service offered by both Telcel and Iusacell, which is managed and operated by subsidiaries of U.S. telecommunications company Bell Atlantic Corp (NYSE:BEL - news), was 'slightly' below standards the companies had agreed on. Under those standards, which are set to become tougher this year, no more than 7 percent of calls should be dropped, no more than 7 percent of dialed calls should be uncompleted and the time to connect calls should average 20 seconds or less. Nicolin declined to disclose the companies' performance numbers or say which one did better. Under the compensation plan, users on monthly contract plans will get 20 percent more minutes added to their usual contract amount in April and again in May. Subscribers who buy prepaid minutes for their phones will automatically receive five free minutes during April and May. The five-minute allotment represents 20 percent of the average 25 minutes of calls a month made by prepaid clients.

To: slacker711 who wrote (48)	3/23/2000 1:01:00 PM
From: Rob Preuss	Respond to of 206

[CEL signs interconnect agreement with Unefon.] Thursday March 23, 12:25 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release SOURCE: Unefon S.A. de C.V Unefon and Iusacell Sign Interconnection Agreement MEXICO CITY, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Unefon S.A. de C.V., Mexico's largest radio spectrum holder, today announced that it signed an indirect interconnection agreement with Grupo Iusacell S.A. de C.V (NYSE: CEL, BMV: CEL), a Mexican wireless cellular service provider in four regions in the central portion of Mexico (including Mexico City). This agreement will allow subscribers from both companies to communicate with each other. ``With this step Unefon ends its first negotiation stage in terms of interconnection. We have formally established interconnection conditions with the three biggest telephone networks in Mexico. These agreements will allow our customers to be connected to practically the entire universe of existing telephone lines' said Adrian Steckel, Chief Executive Officer of Unefon. ``Today, Unefon confirms its commitment to provide communication services to the unattended portions of the Mexican market,' he added. Unefon started its commercial operations in February 1st; currently offering service in Toluca and Acapulco. By mid year 2000, Unefon expects to be operational in other important Mexican cities, including Mexico City; and in as many as 20 cities by year end. Unefon, S.A. de C.V. is Mexico's newest national telephone company. Unefon holds licenses to provide PCS telephony services throughout Mexico in the 1.9GHz frequency range. Unefon is a 50-50 joint venture of the Saba family and TV Azteca (NYSE: TZA, BMV: TVAZTCA), one of two television broadcast networks in Mexico. Unefon has long term contracts with TV Azteca for advertising and with Grupo Elektra (NYSE: EKT, BMV: ELEKTRA), an affiliated company, for distribution and antenna location. SOURCE: Unefon S.A. de C.V