According to Morningstar, the average technology fund fell 7.3percentt in the quarter, while the average telecommunications fund sank 13.2percentt.
Moreover, the company's stock is valued at 12.8 times estimated earnings for the next 12 months, or about 15 percent higher than the average European telecommunications company, according to Thomson Reuters.
The average unionized telecommunications worker makes $42,000.
Throw in robotics, 3-D printing, and faster telecommunications, and things get tougher for the average worker.
Annual quota for computer hardware inside salespeople was $1.35 million, for computer software it was $1.22 million, for Cloud/SaaS inside salespeople the average was $795,000 and telecommunications was $730,000.
That hasn't done much for the value of telecommunications and telecommunications equipment stocks.
UTSI's return on assets is 7.6%, compared to a 1.7% average for the telecommunications industry.
Juniper's enterprise multiple, a useful metric in assessing deal-making prospects, stands well below an industry average of 13.3 for the U.S. telecommunications equipment makers.
That worked out to $750,000 a patent, or nearly four times the average for computer, software and telecommunications patents a few years earlier, experts say.
