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Strategies & Market Trends : DVBC / Imatel Merger, Visualize Whirrled Peas -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Typhoon who wrote (20)11/10/1997 6:41:00 PM
From: I Am John Galt  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 54
 
If the RMIL merger goes through... there may be a chance of DVBC/OVIS merger!

WOO HOO!

Matty G



To: Typhoon who wrote (20)11/10/1997 6:52:00 PM
From: campe  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 54
 
In order to break into the communications market, you need two things.
1. Large customer base
2. Gotta own your own lines

Start ups, as a rule, buy large volume of time from the big guys, AT&T, MCI, Sprint, and then re-sell the time to consumers. Any short term surge in the customer base can be nixed (controlled) by the big 3. Ultimetely longterm, instead of investing in the small start ups, put your money in the big guys cause they win whether you use them or not.

And BTW - no $2M company (in assets) can possibly invest the required funds to deal with these two issues. Imatel is currently a private compaany. I would like to see an audited report as to the nature of the financial standings before I give this merger ANY credibility.