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The Global Services division goes from strength to strength ... providing BT with diversification away from pure telecoms services that remain under intense pricing pressure.

Chris Alliott

This is a big issue because sectors such as telecoms, energy and financials are still heavily regulated by the state. In contrast, others such as manufacturing have been opened up for a long time and there's now very limited government influence over them.

Patrick Lo

I'm very positive on Europe and the telecoms.

Robert Lovelace

This will free the company up to invest further in telecoms.

Raymond Hill

This is not the greatest environment for equities. Telecoms are not a very visible sector, and when investors look to avoid volatility they will look outside such sectors.

Plum Shipton

This transaction, which would be subject to approval by our public minority shareholders, would put us firmly on track to becoming the No. 1 telecoms company in the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Alexander Izosimov

The weakness in telecoms is a bit of a surprise.

Clive Mcdonnell

The sentiment for the whole telecoms sector has now cooled down.

Markus Steinbeis

PCCW is facing declining revenues from its long-distance operations, but it still has a massive grip on Hong Kong's telecoms infrastructure and so it is very well positioned.

Andrew Chetham

The premium paid seems reasonable given the poor relative performance of Latin American telecoms companies compared with the European ones last year.

Maria Rotondo

In the last five years we have seen a sea change in IT and telecoms infrastructure.

Chetan Ahya

We have no plans to sell Japan Telecom's fixed business for three billion or any other number.

Chris Gent

Any M&A on this scale is good news for the market. Consolidation is needed in the telecoms industry and premiums increase investor sentiment.

Robert Sellar

Telecoms and tech stocks (also) still get hit by France Telecom's sales warning.

Markus Steinbeis

We've been playing the telecoms sector. We think consolidation could come and it's a sector that has underperformed for many months.

Matthieu Giuliani

The results are better than expected particularly at the telecoms and music divisions. SFR managed to keep their costs under control better than expected while UMG (Universal Music Group) have benefited from a strong portfolio of artists and a bigger-than-expected market share.

Jeremie Carot

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Greg Potter

Telecoms support for this kind of operation was traditionally a problem. In the new world, people just take their phone to the new location and plug it in.

Andrew Barker

I think the market's lack of energy came from those two sectors (telecoms and media), and also what didn't help was the tone of the overall region, with Brazil being down so sharply today.

David Chon

With telecoms, it's either everything goes lower or everything goes up.

Julio Mora

Time Warner Telecom's metro Ethernet solution has enhanced our ability to run this medical practice more efficiently. Metro Ethernet gives us the capacity and scalability we will need to deploy new ophthalmology imaging, electronic medical record and voice over IP applications.

Rod Roeser

Corning provides a little strength to a very beleaguered sector, but the Street has not been expecting much out of the telecoms. Citigroup was a little weak, but Bank or America evens it out.

Bryan Piskarowski

We believe there's going to be a change in Telecom's strategy in this operation. This hasn't been made public. We've had access to their data room and we know the company, but we don't know what this operation might be.

Juan David Peña

Both BT Ireland and ESB Telecoms have agreed to interconnect on an open-access basis, there's no exclusivity.

John Lawlor

The telecoms news was disappointing. We do not have any hopes for that sector in the near term, but when the market starts to slow down later in the year maybe they will be an interesting trade.

Graham Secker

Justice may know a lot about justice, but it's painfully obvious to me that they know nothing about telecoms. Justice is taking a historical perspective, which is exactly the kind of perspective that would probably get me in deep trouble and perhaps even fired if I was looking at the industry on that basis.

Anthony Ferrugia

Investors are buying back into telecoms, which have upside potential after being the worst sector performer last year in Europe, and offer a nice dividend yield.

Guenter Senftleben

It represents a welcome transition from earlier delusions of grandeur, when mobile operators thought that the future of voice telecoms would be a purely mobile one.

Jeremy Green

Telecoms may have a bit lower to go. Any negative news is likely to come out over the next few months.

Sharon Coombs

Recent takeovers in the telecoms industry have been marked by an increased confidence and desire to do M&A on part of trade buyers. They repaired their balance sheet and telecoms equity has been fairly strong recently.

James Douglas