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To: stock bull who wrote (21730)	5/7/2005 9:20:19 PM
From: John Soileau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21876

That was discussed here a few years ago. I think what's holding up a merger of LU and NT is that they just can't agree on the new name. Will it be Norcent, or Lutel? Or Lunor, or Centel? After all the accounting revelations they have been through recently, I tend to like the discreet-sounding "Notel". John

To: stock bull who wrote (21730)	5/7/2005 11:23:16 PM
From: Mark O. Halverson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21876

What do you think of LU and Nortel getting together? Maybe LU buying out NT or a merger of "equals"? That's a good question. It would depend, in part, on product mix. One would want to look at the major products (including services) of each company. The ideal situation for merger would be if LU and NT strengths were mostly in non competing product areas, or if in most cases strong product from one company were up against weak product from the other. Weak products could then be scrubbed. I don't have a good feel as to whether this is the case. Best, Mark