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This view is consistent with Tony talking about supplying other countries. Botswana cannot be blamed for wanting the energy for themselves and have maybe realised that "upto" should have said "upto and over" that 100Mw limit. Nice to see this board come alive for once.

Do we know what supplies were estimated in the tenders? It really could be as simple as having two tenders for vastly different amounts. If we tendered X for 10Mw and t'others tendered Y for , say 50Mw, it could be so difficult to compare them. It might be sensible to ask both companies to quote for the same amounts instead of the frequently reported "up to 100Mw" ?

They may well be the icing in future but the thought of trying to supply the rest of Africa without our host country being totally on board frightens me. But it is hard to imagine that restricting the applications to the two original perties "shortlisting the same two bidders who had bid for the tender being Tlou Energy Limited and Sekaname (Pty) Ltd." is the end of the road for us. If my money was in the opposition camp I would not be dancing in the street yet.

Trying to find a bright outcome here ..... it cannot have been great for the Govt to have Hobson's choice so I am hoping they are calling for any sort of competition between the two parties. It may be a 10-0 thrashing but at least they can say there was an open contest to determine the winner?

I particularly like the arenas he has worked in. It has proved difficult for previous executives to make much headway overseas , Kyle sounds as he will know a grape vine from a rope? Good luck to us all.

Sandbanks will survive ..... they'll simply convert their notes into coins and build huge dykes :O) Plots were �9k years ago for fear of what you describe.... I might live there one day .. housename will be St Annes most like but I dream it could be St Anthonys ..

Hope you have Sandbanks in mind oandnotw? I once told a business analyst what I had done on the computer for him. His reaction was "thank you, I am now better informed but none the wiser". Your nomme de plume reminded me.

Thanks for the link Jupiter - very happy with it. I particularly like Tony's attitude to the opposition, making it sound important that Botswana can benefit from choices and putting them above our self interest which he managed to encourage too.

It was Blue Monday the so called miserable day of the year when credit card bills from Xmas come in and the weather is not so good etc etc and maybe 'dry' drinkers start to miss their drinking ...... so maybe the credit card bills or the money for the taxis and bar bills came from those sells :O)

Etienne it was not stupid at the time. At that point we'd risen to £7 pre #1 launch and the pundits were predicting it could eventually rise up to £23. After a superb launch adding 2 years to the life of #1 because they used less fuel getting into the correct orbit I think 99% of people expected an imminent price of £9. Unfortunately Williams took some profits around that £7 mark and we dropped to £3.50 instead. I repeatedly bought down to £2.20 thinking, each time, it could not go any lower and then froze my holding. Paul Walsh buying did give me that confidence, as did his not selling, so he and I are in similar positions on the share prices. Had he sold (like Williams) I suspect Avanti would be have been toast long ago .... I kid myself he still has Pearl and Teddy (High Hopes) of the price returning to at least his buying prices and this week makes it look less impossible. Whether I'll live long enough to see it is one thing, but I have always believed the population of our potential covrage is plenty to make this business pay one. Especially now debt repayments are not mind boggling.

16-May-16 Avanti Communications Group PLC AVN Paul Walsh 25,000 @ 89.50p £22,375.00 25000 30-Sep-13 Avanti Communications Group PLC AVN Paul Walsh 25,000 @ 236.00p £59,000.00 25000 30-Sep-13 Avanti Communications Group PLC AVN Paul Walsh 30,000 @ 238.00p £71,400.00 30000 10-Sep-13 Avanti Communications Group PLC AVN Paul Walsh 10,000 @ 179.00p £17,900.00 10000 10-Jul-13 Avanti Communications Group PLC AVN Paul Walsh 10,000 @ 161.00p £16,100.00 10000 28-May-13 Avanti Communications Group PLC AVN Paul Walsh 12,572 @ 261.00p £32,812.92 12572 27-Mar-13 Avanti Communications Group PLC AVN Paul Walsh 10,000 @ 307.00p £30,700.00 10000 29-Nov-12 Avanti Communications Group PLC AVN Paul Walsh 10,000 @ 217.00p £21,700.00 10000 Total £271,987.92 for 132,572 shares Paul Walsh buys - no sells

The Paul Walsh who bought 55k in two days (Sept 2013) when the price was £2.31 ....... I don't think they were only buys for him .... and I don't think I've seen and RNS for him selling ever. You might be right afrc ..... he could grow AVN into a very healthy plant imho ...

Sorry - this was my original find - "https://myaccount.google.com/dashboard" - earlier link just as worrying imho

Does everyong get these links? I have been looking for a means to shutting it down with no luck but in the search I found Google dashboard ... "https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity" which was new to me and quite revealing. Anybody found a way of shutting down the link?

To my tiny mind this looks like the best news since since DW did one. If someone asked me to lower the interest on a loan from $170M to $40M in return for a stake in his business , it would have to be one hell of a business proposition for me to not laugh in his face! Short of someone signing a contract for huge money for our bandwidth , or the creditors cancelling their loans, I cannot think of a better bit of realistic news .... I don't really understand most of RNS other than we are potentially saving $130M per annum and that the debt was the main problem alongside the lack of lucrative contracts. Acceptance of this deal suggest to me that such contracts are expected or even better ?

With parts of Suffolk taking 8 or 21 hours to dowmload a movie (depending on the newspaper you believe - or the length of the film) in 2017 , I'll never understand why we never targetted the UK #1 days. Had we built a reputation here and then gone to Africa with that behind us I feel we could have been in a totally different position now. As it was we had to find partners who were facing the unknown and could not justify paying enough to guarantee quick success. On the Irish border talks I cannot see why this is our problem. If the EU and Eire want controls why don't we leave it to them to sort out? That should take 50 years or so :O)

Power 30p is really cool compared to what I have paid! My lowest is �2.20 and I just wait to see if I'll ever get to a point it is worth selling my very expensive shares. Have never doubted this is a sensible market place and somebody will make money one day - but when? And will it be AVN?

Tyche , when I read that Kenya has less than 23% of their population on mains electricity I panicked a bit - Kenya was a country I thought could help us. I met a Nigerian lass and asked her about her country - another hope - and she said broadband was very popular but was too expensive for most people. So there sounded like a potential market there if we can price it right. Beaming signals through the ether has to be cheaper than laying cables so my hopes were slightly raised. Not worth selling so I live in hope that there is a tunnel with a source of light at one of the extremes.

ProfW ... "So thought.. I will give them a better amount some �1.8 million in a year or less....Than a paltry � 30K NOW.." Pity you never gave them 30k to allow them to choose for themselves? They may have invested in TLOU in the 6p's? I have more than your 30k in here and my charity begins at home ..... so I hope you are right and my charity makes millions! Have you told your charity what you have done? If so, I bet they are watching the price every few hours or days :O) In Paul Walsh I trust .... another ProfW?

Hokey Cokey is MTB, althought Ho ckey Co ckey may be more like it? In and Out and now he is shaking it all about or trying to .... filter him so he cannot irritate you. I am resisting logging out to see what he is saying! Very easily done tbh - I don't really give a f what he says. I noticed in the posts I read months ago that he never writes in an angry fashion .... imho this supports GCCRa's opinion that he is a professional troll despite being very amateur at it!