Over the past year, rising interest rates made dividend stocks a lot less appealing than fixed-income investments like CDs and bonds. They also broadly drove investors from tech stocks toward more conservative sectors. Therefore, it might seem like a bad time to buy dividend-paying tech stocks as long as interest rates stay elevated.

However, investors who can tune out the near-term noise and plan to hold their stocks for at least a few years can easily find a few undervalued and underappreciated dividend plays across the tech sector. I personally believe these three dividend stocks check the right boxes: AT (NYSE: T), Opera (NASDAQ: OPRA), and Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO). Let's find out a bit more about these three dividend-paying tech stocks.

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