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  Chapter 1178 Goose Plucking

The leaders of the telecommunications giants sitting here have different moods. William Hannigan, the head of the Telephone and Telegraph Group, frowned, and Edward Whittaker, the president of Southwestern Bell, was a little anxious. He wanted to kill Skype the most. It's a grasshopper that **** blood on the telecommunications operators, because Southwest Bell is at a disadvantage in the field of broadband and mobile networks, and Skype's rise is cheap, and it can't take advantage of it at all, and users are abducted in batches.

The Telephone and Telegraph Group was also a mess. William Hannigan was responsible for the mess caused by the previous head, Betts. The decline is terrible. There are a group of external rivals who are eyeing it, and Skype, which kills thousands of dollars, competes with Telephone and Telegraph for users. The most important telephone bill revenue of Telephone and Telegraph continues to decline. The term "internal and external troubles" is used to describe it. Where the Telephone and Telegraph Group is today.

In contrast, Sprint and Verizon, which has long deployed mobile communications, feel a bit like sitting on the Diaoyutai. Sprint is acquiring Nex Communications, and by then Sprint will become the second largest in America. Mobile communication operators and Verizon rank third!

No matter how many Skype users there are, they still have to apply for broadband and mobile phone cards to access the Internet. Sprint and Verizon are stealthily robbing these Skype users and providing them with Internet services without making a fortune. They are users of telecom operators such as Telephone and Telegraph Group, BellSouth, and Chartered Communications. If you are a dead friend, you will not die. Verizon and Sprint are fine as long as you don’t die. They don’t particularly care about whether other colleagues die or not. I can't wait for my rival to hang up!

  The Telecom Operators Association, apart from America Telecom, which is blatant and blatant, and the platform Skype, is now gradually divided into two factions. One faction advocates killing Skype completely, and there are any Internet companies that dare to follow Skype.

In addition, the faction dominated by Sprint and Verizon has an ambiguous attitude. Although they also oppose the Internet telephony initiated by Skype, they don't want to kill Skype completely. They also count on companies such as Skype to allow users to use more More traffic, they can charge more Internet access fees!

  William Hannigan and Edward Whitaker also noticed the changes within the Telephone Operators Association. In order to avoid the complete disintegration of the Operators Association, they rushed to the palace.

   Mike Bowen of the Federal Communications Commission dragged on for a long time before he reluctantly came to his office. He really didn't want to face the people from the Telecom Operators Association.

It is true that Mike Bowen is the boss of the Communications Commission, but he is not the emperor of the telecommunications industry. He can control the power of life and death in the entire American telecommunications industry. The anti-monopoly bill was once the sword of Damocles in the hands of the Communications Commission. Telecom giants are trembling in the face of the Federal Communications Commission, for fear that they will be dismantled if they disagree with each other.

However, after the new telecommunications bill introduced by the previous leader, the shackles around the necks of telecommunications giants have been removed. The anti-monopoly bill is useless for the two major industries of telecommunications and media, and there is a high probability that Ami will It is impossible for Liga to introduce new anti-monopoly laws in these two industries!

At present, the Federal Communications Commission is, at most, a fine knife for punishing telecommunications giants, TV stations, and media companies. It is difficult for Mike Bowen to demonstrate his authority when facing the head of telecommunications giants. Why should he give Make it up for yourself.

In the past, those telecommunications giants ignored him, Mike Bowen, and now, they expect him to stand in for them, and insist on being the biggest benefactor of the elephant party behind him, and take him as a co-author Use it, let the ox plow the field, and have to feed two bales of grass. When using his imposing boss of the Federal Communications Commission, expect him to bring his own dry food and take advantage of it. It's unreasonable!

   "I'm really sorry, the commander-in-chief just held a meeting at the federal department level, so everyone has been waiting for a long time!"

  Bringing himself and his staff, after entering the office, Mike Bowen said with an apologetic face, and directly moved the commander out, betting on the mouths of the people in the office.

Whittaker, the president of Southwestern Bell, didn't believe a word of this. They came today and found out that Mike Bowen didn't have any meetings to attend. Wen just wanted to let them go, but he couldn't avoid it, so he came out.

Edward Whitaker stared at Mike Bowen fiercely. Now that Mike Bowen is in office, he can't deal with him, but it is impossible for Mike Bowen to live in the position of the boss of the Federal Communications Commission for the rest of his life, etc. Edward Whitaker had plenty of opportunities to target the old boy when he stepped down.

   "William, the Telephone and Telegraph Group, has applied for a special subsidy of 500 million U.S. dollars from the Communications Commission. The Grand Commander, the Budget Committee, and the federal finance side have already approved it, and it should be issued next month!"

  As soon as he sat down, Mike Bowen announced the good news to William Hannigan, the head of the Telephone and Telegraph Group, with a smile on his face as if he suddenly remembered it, but the latter immediately froze there.

  William Hannigan couldn’t hear it, this was Mike Bowen Bowen’s warning to him, don’t embarrass him too much today, otherwise the Telephone and Telegraph Group will never get the subsidy!

   "This subsidy is a subsidy provided by the Telephone and Telegraph Group for entering the remote states of America and laying broadband in the community!"

William Hannigan squeezed out a stiff smile, and explained to the group of colleagues, but for his words, those who believed would be damned. The Telephone and Telegraph Group only likes to stay in New York, Los Angeles, and Miami, where the largest number of users and the highest profit The Telephone and Telegraph Group is not willing to go to big federal cities, remote states, and towns.

  This is also the reason for the existence of other telecom operators. Otherwise, if the Telephone and Telegraph Group, regardless of the cost, had to lay lines and occupy all the regions of America at a loss, there would be no other competitors at all.

The largest telecommunications group in the Federation now needs to apply for subsidies. Edward Whitaker, as well as Sprint President Bill Ashley, Verizon President Earl McAdam and others, looked at William for a while. Hannigan's gaze also became strange.

Edward Whittaker looked at Hannigan with a somewhat inexplicable feeling, and a somewhat eager ambition. The Telephone and Telegraph Group is in trouble, and it may be a big trouble. Edward Whittaker could tell right away, otherwise the rich and powerful Telephone and Telegraph Group wouldn't be able to plunder even this bit of wool.

What Edward Whittaker has always wanted to do is to re-merge the entire Telephone and Telegraph Group with the company that was split off at the beginning, so as to restore the former glory of the Telephone and Telegraph Group. To achieve this, the first step is to Southwestern Bell must swallow the Telephone and Telegraph Group. In the past, Edward Whitaker just dared to think about it, but swallowing the Telephone and Telegraph Group sounds like a fantasy, but now, Edward Whittaker is thinking about it. There is a faint feeling that this matter seems to have a real chance!

   "Wait until next year, the Federal Communications Commission will continue to provide a total of 8.3 billion dollars in subsidies to telecom operators that provide free broadband services to the community, and another 4 billion dollars will be subsidized for telecom operators to purchase communication equipment, etc.!"

  Mike Bowen didn't care about the intrigue of the group of people in front of him, he just knocked the mountain and told them, don't go too far, he still has a lot of good cards in his hand.

The subsidies mentioned by Mike Bowen are all derived from the Internet Revitalization Act implemented after the little cowboy became the commander-in-chief, threatening to provide free Internet services to communities and schools in America. A total of 200 billion dollars will be spent , subsidies to Internet companies, telecommunications companies, computer manufacturers and communication equipment manufacturers.

Now, it is true that communities and schools in many states in America have laid free broadband and received free computer donations, but most of them are middle-class communities and schools in big cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Washington, and Houston. As for slum communities There are other places where subsidies have been received. Only ghosts will know where they have gone. Such a large sum of money has passed through countless powerful figures such as the budget committee of the general commander, the gentlemen of Capitol Hill, the municipal councils of the federal states, and county and county councilors. Hands, how much is left, it is really hard to say, anyway, the media will hype this matter as the achievements of the little cowboy commander.

  "Senator Mike Bowen, I'm sorry to take your time, but this matter is very important to the Telecommunications Operators Association and the millions of telecommunications practitioners in America, and it cannot be delayed any longer!"

  (end of this chapter)