It's a pleasant surprise. Mike was instrumental as a turnaround player at Motorola. This is what Nortel really needed. |
It's still a price-driven market. |
Motorola is nipping at them in Asia. |
Nortel is going to be dragged down in sympathy. |
Nortel is taking the necessary steps to dig itself out of a hole. It will, however, take some time. We get the sense that things are now being accounted for appropriately in the right quarter. |
Once they get toward the April quarter and into the fiscal year end, the company has quite a bit working in its favor. |
Shopping ensues when the environment is improving and we believe things seem to be on an upswing for Cisco. |
The price points are coming down. Along with better handsets, it's stimulating for 3G. |
The revenue is showing flat trends from last quarter. The earnings per share upside was mostly due to the reduced share count. |
There's a permeating culture at GE to dominate in markets they play in. Nortel has to make several important decisions about what markets and products to serve over the next three to five years. |
They need to be more selective. Nortel needs to pick a market that they can dominate, |
We are encouraged by the company's progress in expanding its installed base while improving its financial model. |
We believe 2006 will mostly be a rebuilding year. |
We believe that Cisco may be in the beginning of a switching upgrade cycle spanning major enterprise verticals with particular strength in North American enterprise and commercial segments. |
We can't all be masters. And telecom equipment, I think, is becoming a market where you have to have an expertise in one area. |