Chart: Telecom Stocks - Quarterly Earnings Growth

Rob Zenilman submits: Year over year quarterly earnings growth of stocks covered in the Telecom sector ranged from 62.5% (T) down to -48.1% (TAR), 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:

		Quarter	Earnings	Last Yr.	YOY
Ticker	Company	Ending	$(mm)	($mm)	Increase%

ATAlltel Corp.03/31/06$517.20$484.50-6.3%
BCEBCE Inc.03/31/06$662.90$642.90-3.0%
BLSBellSouth Corp.03/31/06$1,066.00$1,153.008.2%
BTBT Group plc03/31/06$1,073.30$992.16-7.6%
CHAChina Telecom Corp. Ltd.12/31/05$979.40$929.72-5.1%
CNChina Netcom Group Corp. 12/31/05$446.51$536.7320.2%
CTLCenturytel Inc.03/31/06$131.88$118.89-9.9%
CZNCitizens Communications C03/31/06$64.23$72.9913.6%
DTDeutsche Telekom AG03/31/06$2,043.02$2,117.743.7%
FTEFrance Telecom12/31/05$2,097.27$2,225.856.1%
NTLNortel Inversora S.A.03/31/06$94.14-$5.84N/A
NTTNippon Telegraph & Teleph03/31/06$750.26$416.29-44.5%
QQwest Communications Inte03/31/06-$181.00$108.00N/A
SSprint Nextel Corp.03/31/06$763.00$761.00-0.3%
TAT&T Inc.03/31/06$1,356.00$2,203.0062.5%
TARTelefonica of Argentina, 03/31/06$43.13$22.39-48.1%
TEFTelefonica SA03/31/06$1,877.44$2,282.0821.6%
TITelecom Italia SpA03/31/06$1,885.76$1,627.63-13.7%
TWTCTime Warner Telecom Inc.03/31/06-$35.09-$22.26N/A
VZVerizon Communications In03/31/06$3,149.00$3,598.0014.3%

Data: CapitalIQ

Note: Net income is before taxes and excludes "unusual" items.

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