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Technology Stocks : NHC COMMUNICATIONS (TSE:NHC) acquiring THE FIBER COMPANY -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cleto who wrote (674)	1/9/2001 6:56:27 PM
From: TheSlowLane	Respond to of 856

I'm trying not to, actually (get excited). Hopefully there will be plenty of excitement when we get the news, but who knows when it will be for sure. Trying to get a contract through an ILEC must be like passing a kidney stone the size of Montana. Hopefully it will be worth it. It's hard to imagine otherwise. Am very tempted to visit Montreal in a couple of weeks but I doubt I will make it. Oh well...

To: cleto who wrote (674)	1/9/2001 10:55:33 PM
From: Lalit Jain	Respond to of 856

cleto, Thanks for the post. The technicals are neither great nor bad. I am looking for a breakout for Nasdaq and NHC. Currently it looks more like the stock is being controlled to stay around $10. I may be reading this wrong. It may just be a fluke. I do believe that the contract will be a substantial contract, specially for a small-cap. DSL market is just starting to take off. ILECS/CLECS,MTUs have to use NHC's VCCS to contain costs. I am excited. Regards, Lalit Jain

To: cleto who wrote (674)	1/14/2001 10:41:07 AM
From: donkeyman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 856

Cleto: If NHC get's a $200 m ILEC Contract, what annual contract is keeping NHC at $10.00/sh currently.?? Their first contract that drove the price up to a high of $22.00/share was Cdn.$26 million. Then, I think, they picked up a US$75 million contract over 3 years,??? so that's approx. Cdn.$37 million/year for a total of $63 million. Therefore, NHC share value is $10 based on approx. $63 million annual contracts-(APPROX ???) If we are lucky enough to pick up $200 million in a one-year contract for 2001 would that drive our share value right onto that "target" of $33.00/share. The DSL business is cutting into the cable business according to that USA article from last Tuesday (Jan.9th) and huge news was reported Friday from the Minister of Industry, Brian Tobin who said "that providing national high-speed service would cost more than $10 billion for Canada". Someone was saying on Stockhouse if there's $10 billion going to be spent on high-speed internet in Canada, there could be $200 billion spent in the United States and Europe on High Speed Internet where NHC is set up with offices. Both areas have a population 10 times that of Canada. It looks like to me NHC, over the next several years, are in a "Super DSL Boom Market".