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Technology Stocks : Winstar Comm. (WCII) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: WWS who wrote (3262)	1/5/1998 9:24:00 PM
From: DubM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12468

Wcii up 5.58% today on i presume more T takeover speculation. TGNT-BS up 7.22% today on the following? You got to be kidding. What does this guy think TGNT has to offer, other than their licenses, which at this point are questionable. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday January 5, 3:11 pm Eastern Time RESEARCH ALERT - SBC deal with SNET is EPS neutral NEW YORK, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Merrill Lynch telecommunications analyst Daniel Reingold said he viewed positively SBC Communications Inc's (NYSE:SBC - news) proposed acquisition of Southern New England Telecommunications Inc (NYSE:SNG - news). -- said deal is ''EPS neutral.'' Said the acquisition will be ''non-dilutive initially and will likely be accretive in subsequent years.'' -- said complementary wireless operations would create a larger footprint in the Northeast. SBC is already in Boston, Upstate New York and Washington, D.C. The SNET deal would add Connecticut and parts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. -- said deal could stir a new wave of consolidation in telecom industry among other independent phone companies such as Cincinnati Bell Inc (NYSE:CSN - news), Frontier Corp (NYSE:FRO - news) and possibly Alltel Corp (OTC BB:ALTEM - news; NYSE:AT - news) and Century Telephone Enterprises Inc (NYSE:CTL - news). Said competitive local exchange carriers such as Teligent Inc (Nasdaq:TGNT - news) and Intermedia Communications Inc (Nasdaq:ICIX - news) remain likely targets.