SHU what’s the deal?

[philipcarl3]

• I wrote to IR previously, they didn't respond
  
• What can they actually say? "we stand by our backlog numbers but lowered our prospective conversion rate" something like that. They already said that. They're not suddenly going to publicize all of their contract wins with the details.
  
• The lower revenue guidance (from $144M in the iPass acquisition presentation last November to $105M-$115M in the Q4CC) is in itself an admission of some sort that they're not going to convert all of their backlog, as is their disclaimer. 
  
• Feel free to ask management yourself and publish the result here, no problem.
  

1) Did you write them this time, with a copy of the article and ask for their response?  Just because they didn't have a response to some other article awhile ago doesn't mean 100% that they won't have a response this time.  That is poor journalism to assume that just because a subject has no comment one time that they will respond that way every time. So what if they did have no comment?  Just calling them up and sending an email would allow you to put this statement in the article  "  We contacted Pareteum IR with the content of this article to ask for their response yesterday.  As of press time today, they have not yet responded".  What is the harm?  It shows you at least attempted to hear their side of it. 

2) You don't know what they might say.  That's the beauty of asking them to get their side of it.  Don't assume you know they have nothing to say.  That's rookie journalism.  maybe they have someone new in IR that does have something to say or will get mgmt.'s response?  Maybe the subject matter has something that they feel strongly about disputing and this time they will respond?  YOU DON'T KNOW.  JUST ASK.  To ignore this basic journalism exercise shows your lack of experience.

3) Give them the opportunity to state their side.  Doesn't hurt to ask.  Not sure why you are not just admitting your mistake and learn from it.  Seems childish.

4) The right time to give a balanced report is at the time of the original report.  Not days later by someone else.  To think your response is logical shows your lack of experience and petulant attitude.