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Technology Stocks : Qualcomm Incorporated (QCOM)
QCOM 178.29-1.6%Dec 12 9:30 AM EST

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To: T L Comiskey who wrote (54755)12/17/1999 1:39:00 PM
From: Jenne   of 152472
 
RESEARCH ALERT-buy Nextel on weakness - Soundview
NEW YORK, Dec 17 (Reuters) - SoundView Technlogy Group said
on Friday investors should buy shares of Nextel Communications
Inc. <NXTL.O> on weakness.
-- said Nextel's quarter appears "on track." Said it
expects Nextel to add 425,000 net new subscribers, which is
above the range of 390,000 to 410,000 new subscribers expected
by other Wall Street analysts.
-- said Nextel's average monthly revenue per subscriber
should remain strong and the highest in the industry.
-- said believes the company remains a takeover candidate
by a foreign telecommunications company.
-- said Nextel's stock was affected by two legal
proceedings on Thursday.
-- said a Washington D.C. court approved a modified
antitrust decree ruling in favor of Nextel, allowing the
company to buy additional licenses in the 900MHtz band in the
top 25 markets. Said this is only a "slight positive" since
these licenses come in "slivers, not swatches" geographically.
-- said NextWave's bankruptcy court proceeding in New York
may also affect Nextel, but there are too many unanswered
questions to judge the impact on mobile wireless or
fixed-wireless carriers. NextWave on Thursday got $1.6 billion
from several high-profile investors. SoundView speculated that
Leap Wireless Inc. <LWIN.O> also may get involved with
NextWave.
-- said NextWave may deploy Qualcomm Inc.'s <QCOM.O> new
high data rate technology and go after the "last-mile" traffic
and compete in the fixed local loop market. That move would
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