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To: Dave who wrote (8524)	12/12/2000 5:02:25 PM
From: Puck	Respond to of 34857

The rumors are bogus. I am incredulous that anyone would think Nokia would want to purchase Lucent lock, stock, and barrel. For what reason would Nokia want to purchase Lucent? To become a fiber optic infrastructure provider? No way. For Lucent's wireless capability? Lucent has no handset technology or manufacturing ability and Nokia's infrastrcture unit beats Lucent's each day of the week and twice on Sunday's. For evidence of this, just consider the AT&T Wireless contract. Perhaps Lucent is going to be split up and there is some little division within Lucent that Nokia would be interested in purchasing at the right price. Lars and others have told me on this board that cultural differences would make a Nokia-Ericsson merger unmanageable. Now such a merger makes conceptual sense to me. If that combination wouldn't work--and both are Scandinavian--how could anyone think that Nokia could possibly manage Lucent effectively.