Chart: Telecom Stocks - Change in Cash-On-Hand

Rob Zenilman submits: Over the last two fiscal quarters, the change (increase/decrease) in cash & short term investments for companies in the Telecom sector ranged from 142.2% (BCE) down to -90.4% (CTL), with a median value of 0.3%

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Data in table version -- click on a ticker for opinion and analysis of the company:

		Most	Cash	Cash
		Recent FQ	Recent	Previous
Ticker	Company	Ending	FQ ($mm)	FQ ($mm)	Change%
AT	Alltel Corp.	03/31/06	$886.5	$989.2
-10.4%
BCE	BCE Inc.	03/31/06	$752.6	$310.8
142.2%
BLS	BellSouth Corp.	03/31/06	$301.0	$427.0
-29.5%
BT	BT Group plc	03/31/06	$4,161.2	$4,798.3
-13.3%
CHA	China Telecom Corp.	12/31/05	$1,909.9	$1,904.7
0.3%
CN	China Netcom Group C	12/31/05	$606.8	$605.2
0.3%
CTL	Centurytel Inc.	03/31/06	$15.3	$158.8
-90.4%
CZN	Citizens Communicati	03/31/06	$284.4	$265.8
7.0%
DT	Deutsche Telekom AG	03/31/06	$11,854.5	$6,020.5
96.9%
FTE	France Telecom	12/31/05	$4,878.7	$5,186.7
-5.9%
NTL	Nortel Inversora S.A	03/31/06	$351.2	$214.8
63.5%
NTT	Nippon Telegraph & T	03/31/06	$12,431.5	$10,322.0
20.4%
Q	Qwest Communications	03/31/06	$740.0	$947.0
-21.9%
S	Sprint Nextel Corp.	03/31/06	$7,513.0	$10,665.0
-29.6%
T	AT&T Inc.	03/31/06	$1,057.0	$1,574.0
-32.8%
TAR	Telefonica of Argent	03/31/06	$171.4	$160.2
6.9%
TEF	Telefonica SA	03/31/06	$7,678.2	$4,200.8
82.8%
TI	Telecom Italia SpA	03/31/06	$8,564.1	$12,728.8
-32.7%
TWTC	Time Warner Telecom	03/31/06	$741.8	$393.5
88.5%
VZ	Verizon Communicatio	03/31/06	$3,927.0	$3,274.0
19.9%

Data: CapitalIQ

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