Don’t let the recent tech focus fool you, some cellular stocks are among the highest yielding investments on the Street. {”s” : “aapl,cht,ftr,goog,mot,q,rimm,t,vz,win”,”k” : “c10,l10,p20,t10″,”o” : “”,”j” : “”} Recent telecom headlines are dominated by smartphone wars between Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL – News ) iPhone, which operates exclusively on AT&T’s (NYSE: T – News ) network in the U.S., Motorola’s (NYSE: MOT – News ) Droid, which runs on Verizon’s (NYSE: VZ – News ) network and Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG – News ) Android operating system – and of course, let’s not forget about Research In Motion’s (NASDAQ: RIMM – News ) popular Blackberry handheld line, which has offerings on a variety of networks. While short-term investors place bets on their favorite smartphone stocks, a number of investors are watching the fight from afar, collecting healthy dividends from a variety of telecom plays. Components of the Domestic Telecom Stocks Index pay an average 6.4% dividend – better than all but five of tickerspy’s more than 250 sector-based stock Indexes. Whether betting on the iPhone or the Droid, one can be sure to earn healthy dividends from either phone’s carrier. AT&T and Verizon both pay out yields upwards of 6%. Other top-yielding domestic telecom plays include local providers Windstream (NYSE: WIN – News ), Quest Communications (NYSE: Q – News ), and Frontier Communications (NYSE: FTR – News ), whose networks cover between 14 and 24 states. The stocks all pay out more than 8.5% dividends. International telecom investors can look to the Chinese Telecom Stocks Index for ideas. While the group’s average dividend pales in comparison to the domestic plays, Taiwanese player Chunghwa Telecom (NSYE: CHT) has a once yearly payout that this year amounted to a 6.4% yield. For more on these Indexes, or all of tickerspy’s top-yielding Indexes visit tickerspy.com. As of this writing the top-10 sectors are all paying out more than 6% in dividends on average. Fun and informative, tickerspy.com is a free investing website where you can track multiple stock portfolios and compare against 250 proprietary Indexes tracking themes from stem cells to green energy to precious metals. Best of all, tickerspy.com lets you spy on the portfolios of nearly 3,000 Wall Street institutions and hedge funds and see graphs of their performance. Try tickerspy.com today and find out how you stack up against investing legends like Warren Buffett! Read the r est here: Telecom Dividends, Please Hold (Indie Research)
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