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Telecom Services Domestic: AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), Windstream Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIN), Frontier Communications Corp (NASDAQ:FTR), Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ)

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), has opened discussions with DirecTV regarding a possible acquisition. By purchasing the satellite provider, AT&T would have better integration with broadband and TV services. The deal would be valued at over $40 billion and would add over 20 million subscribers from DirecTV with AT&T’s customer base of more than 5.7 million. AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) stock performance was 0.36% in last session and finished the day at $ 35.76. Traded volume was 15,748,791 shares in the last session and the average volume of the stock remained 29,450,800 shares. The beta of the stock remained 0.28. AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) insider ownership is 0.04%.

Windstream Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIN), part of Windstream (WIN), and one of the nation’s premier providers of enterprise-class cloud and managed hosted solutions, has partnered with Racemi, a Software as a Service (SaaS) provider, to enable business to quickly and automatically migrate their existing physical and virtual servers to Windstream’s cloud. Windstream Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIN) dropped 0.44% percent to $ 9.10 yesterday on volume of 8,554,473 shares. The intra-day range of the stock was $9.06 – 9.23. Windstream Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIN) has a market capitalization of $ 5.42 billion.

Frontier Communications Corp (NASDAQ:FTR) is set to post its Q114 quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, May 6th. Analysts expect Frontier Communications Corp to post earnings of $0.07 per share and revenue of $1.17 billion for the quarter. Frontier Communications Corp (NASDAQ:FTR)’s stock on May 5, 2014 reported a increase of 0.84% to the closing price of $ 6.00. Its fifty two weeks range is $3.80 – 6.10. The total market capitalization recorded $ 6.00 billion. The overall volume in the last trading session was 5,572,534 shares. In its share capital, Frontier Communications Corp (NASDAQ:FTR) has 1.00 billion outstanding shares.

Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ)s stock had its “overweight” rating reaffirmed by research analysts at Morgan Stanley in a report released on Tuesday, Analyst Ratings.Net reports. On Friday, shares of Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) advanced/dropped 768% to close the day at $888. Company return on investment (ROI) is 56.677% and its monthly performance is recorded as 60.88%. Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ) quarterly revenue growth is 878%.