Have you heard? Telecom stocks are back
It's not quite déjà vu all over again, but European tech and telecom stocks are suddenly hot. After three years of gut-wrenching decline, survivors of the late 1990s bubble have reined in debt and are looking to grow again. A flurry of merger activity last week both real and rumored demonstrates the new mood. Shares in Britain's mobile-phone service mmO2 soared almost 20% after it rebuffed a merger offer of about €13 billion from Dutch phone operator KPN, while France Télécom boosted the valuations of several Internet service providers with its €3.9 billion...
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