BCE Inc. (USA) (BCE), CenturyLink, Inc. (CTL), AT&T Inc. (T): The Telecommunications Services Sector Untethered and Poised to Grow

Moreover, I suggest that further comprehensive research and due diligence is an absolute must before investing in any company within the Telecommunications Services sector.  Change is rarely comfortable, and change is, has been, and most certainly will be the name of the game for the Telecommunications Services sector.  But even though change is rarely comfortable, that doesn’t mean that it is necessarily bad.  Competition within this sector is high, merger and acquisition activity will more likely than not continue, and innovation is manifesting at a feverish pace.  With all this disruption comes higher risk, and this can lead to either higher returns or disastrous ones.  Consequently, caveat emptor may more profoundly apply for the Telecommunications Services sector than for any other sector I have thus far reviewed.

My next and final article within this series will cover Sector 55 – Utilities.

Disclosure:  Long T and VZ at the time of writing.

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