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Technology Stocks : Lucent Technologies (LU) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Techplayer who wrote (13241)	2/4/2000 12:48:00 PM
From: Mighty Mizzou	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21876

You bet your booty, my friend! Bandwidth is the keyword of the millenium and nothing provides more bandwidth in the most efficient mode than fiber. What is exciting is how the utilities are jumping on the fiber bandwagon. I look at it as a whole new market. Screw the incumbent carriers, put a little heat on them and the whole fiber sector will EXPLODE! You got the old guys, T, MCI, WCOM, FON. Plus your Williams, LVLT, PSIX, GBLX. Now we have all kinds of power utilities jumping into this mess. The possibilities blow my mind. GO LU! (Not a bad day eh?)

To: Techplayer who wrote (13241)	2/4/2000 12:56:00 PM
From: Mighty Mizzou	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21876

Looks like LU is VERY serious about growing it's microelectronics division. Perhaps diversifying it's chip portfolio would preclude a spin-off or tracking option? Lucent to buy chip parts supplier VTC assets for $100 mln ALLENTOWN, Pa., Feb 4 (Reuters) - Telecommunications equipment maker Lucent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:LU - news) said on Friday it had agreed to buy several assets of chip parts supplier VTC Inc. for $100 million. The company said its Microelectronics Group had agreed to acquire VTC's products and its design, marketing and sales teams. Privately held VTC supplies semiconductor components to computer hard disk drive manufacturers. VTC, based in Bloomington, Minn., also could get up to $50 million more over two years, based on the company meeting manufacturing goals. ``With this acquisition, Lucent is well positioned to provide a complete line of chips to the fast-growing data storage market,' the statement said. Hard disk drives store data in desktop personal computers, corporate workstations and servers that provide information and services over the Internet. Lucent shares were up 15/16 at 57-5/8.