As long as investors keep bidding up the price of the long distance companies on speculation that there might be an acquisition, it actually makes an acquisition harder to complete.

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Dividend tax relief and low interest rates tend to buoy some of the stocks, but the sector's fundamentals continue to deteriorate.

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I'm skeptical that enterprise customers are as attractive as Wall Street assumes.

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Why buy a business that's been declining 10 to 15 percent?

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