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To: critical_mass who wrote (7749)	7/22/2006 12:40:21 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 219662

AL/LU tried merger in early 2001. It failed because the managers didn't agree who would be left out. Then they still believe they could survive. It took another five years for then to merge. Now is too late. Both will fade. Most likely -the telecoms part- will be sold to a Chinese company. Their future look bleak. Perhaps one will succeed: Ericsson? Nokia? (who's just gobbled Siemens teleocm business) Or all will fade away like happened with the computer business. Look at all the companies that disappeared because they could not move over with the times: RCA, AEG Telefunken, GEC... or look at the computer industry: the companies that developed and were the leaders lost to new comers who developed mini-computers. Then, those, were superseded by the ones that developed the PC industry. It can be that the next generation of fixed and wireless will be developed and a hige new industry will be crated by companies coming from nowhere.