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Technology Stocks : The *NEW* Frank Coluccio Technology Forum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (17187)	10/11/2006 3:15:41 AM
From: tech101	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 46821

How to beat YouTube by Yahoo, MySpace/News Corp, Microsoft, AOL ...? Raise your streaming speed to 500 kbps or above to beat everyone's bandwidth-stingy and poor quality video that is still streaming at the speed about 100 kbps and make your Internet video quality comparable to a cable TV. How to reach that goal without the sky-high cost for bandwidth consumption? Buy a nationwide carrier. LVLT will cost any one $11-12 billion with its incredible debts. Google missed the opportunity to get Broadwing for free a year ago - and even get back some cash in addition - when BWNG's stock was worth only 3.5. With 50 million shares outstanding, BWNG's market cap was under $200 million and almost no debts. Considering BWNG's $1.2 billion tax loss credit to the buyer, the savings on tax alone was more than covering the purchase price. Now BWNG is worth about $1 billion with $200 million cash in the bank. The tax loss forwarding credit is still available to the buyers. The end cost would be only about $500 million for the buyer - if the premium for LBO is not considered.