There are bargains about, share prices are low and there are not too many buyers about. We can expect more deals in the next 12 months.

a superb alliance of the two leading global mobile operators. We share a vision of mobile communications as the principal platform for voice and data communications into the next century, and have the people and assets to realize this vision.

If there is a whispering campaign or conspiracy, which I very much doubt, then I am not party to it.

I'm more than impressed, ... I did not expect this.

Median home prices within the district are high for a rural community, reflecting the district's attractiveness to buyers of second homes and telecommuters. Residents of the largest town also have access to job centers in the Fresno region, albeit via a one-hour drive to the south. Separately, the district recently lost about a third of its students and will lose about a third of its tax base in fiscal 2007 due to an annexation vote that removed a portion of the district's far southwest territory. This has been incorporated into the rating and we expect continued property turnover and new construction will translate into a growing property tax base within the school's new boundaries.

Consumers are likely to expect incentives such as low-interest financing for years to come.