Rebirth of the Tech Madman

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It has to be said that the struggle awareness of monopoly resource controllers has been deeply rooted in their bones, and they just open their mouths-what is interconnected on the surface, but secretly creates delays and lost orders and other accidents, even AT\u0026T This Big Mac, which has always been in the top ten by market value, can make it kneel when it comes to Pacific Telecom's territory, and the Federal Communications Commission has yet to catch it.

Tang Huan, who has never denied that one is positive and the other is strange, and complement each other, is noncommittal about this, and at most occasionally interjects a few words to guide this group of people to reach a consensus on how to deal with the future trend of the development of the telecommunications industry.

Soon, everyone exchanged a preliminary point of view, that is, even though the 1996 version of the Telecommunications Law swung a big sword, hundreds of competitors came rushing in, which is really scary, but if you think about it carefully, the real threat is still those who are currently Existing practitioners, such as the other six former Bell Local Telephone Company, AT\u0026T Company and other princes - this is determined by the inherent monopoly characteristics of the telecommunications industry and the first-mover advantage that is difficult to surpass Yes, it's hard for newcomers to stand out. MCI's painstaking management history over the past few decades is the best evidence.

Specific to Pacific Telecom's main business scope - the local telephone field, it is extremely difficult to introduce full competition in the actual operation, which is not comparable to the long-distance telephone field.

The reason for this is mainly based on two reasons.

The first is the historical inertia formed since the implementation of the 1934 version of the Telecommunications Act, that is, while the Federal Communications Commission, an independent agency, manages the US telecommunications market, state public welfare committees also have the power to manage the telecommunications market in their own states. The purpose is to make the local telephone market dominate. Naturally, the existence of hilltopism, local interest groups, etc.

The second is the cost reason. From the perspective of economic benefits, the operating costs of local telephone services are relatively high, especially for residential telephones. The investment cost is extremely high, but the income is very low due to profit control. Therefore, the combination of high cost and low profit spontaneously dampens the strong desire of potential competitors to enter the field of local calls. In addition, the new entrants themselves have competitive disadvantages and cannot compete fairly with the original operators, thus further consolidating the monopoly of the local telephone market.

To put it bluntly, the local phone market is inherently highly exclusive, making it difficult for new competitors to join in.

In other words, the full competition mechanism introduced by the 1996 version of the Telecommunications Law wants to allow the three major fields of long-distance calls, local calls, and cable TV to enter each other. In the actual operation process, the specific difficulty is different-new competitors want to Entering the field of local calls is the most difficult!

When this conclusion was explored more and more certain, those who were bluffing out ideas and tricks subconsciously tightened their tone, sitting upright and putting on a gentlemanly demeanor.

Since the local telephone field, the headquarters of Pacific Telecom's business scope, is not as difficult to defend as it was first thought, how to enter the long-awaited long-distance telephone field is naturally followed up.

It is no exaggeration at all. Under the escort of the 1996 version of the Telecommunications Act, it is so convenient for new competitors to enter the long-distance telephone market. It is almost as simple as applying for a license from the Federal Communications Commission.

However, although the barriers to entry have been greatly reduced, it does not necessarily mean that the subsequent survival of the industry will be so smooth.

You must know that the long-distance telephone field, which introduced a competitive mechanism early, has also completed the division of territory-ATT has more than 70% of the market share; the two accompanying runners, MCI and Sprint, each have 10% about market share.

It is not difficult to imagine that once a new competitor enters the long-distance telephone market, it will inevitably be suppressed by AT\u0026T.

Based on mci's and sprint's experience of surviving under AT\u0026T's tyranny over the years, low prices are the only powerful weapon available.

In this case, one can imagine how heavy the pressure of survival is for the new competitors!

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In this way, after several days of meetings, the management had a consistent and clear understanding of the road ahead.

When Tang Huan summed up, he specifically pointed out that the monopoly in the field of local calls should continue, but this does not mean that new competitors have nothing to do.

Looking around at the crowd, the richest man waved his hand, If I were a new competitor, I would take a more direct approach—acquisition of this local telephone company.

To put it another way, Pacific Telecom may not be afraid of those new small and medium-sized competitors, but it must be vigilant against the risk of acquisition.

Speaking of this, Tang Huan said with a heavy tone: Here, I can make a very sure prediction-the 1996 version of the Telecommunications Law liberalized various controls, which will definitely lead to the formal separation of AT\u0026T and T\u0026T in 1984. The seven former Bell local telephone companies, including Pacific Telecom, will see a wave of capital operations involving mutual mergers in the next few years.

After all, as a new competitor, challenging an existing monopoly is too hard, and the outcome is unpredictable. How can it be as direct as an acquisition.

All the attendees were masters of seeing all directions and listening to all directions. Immediately, from these words, they tasted the subtext-the big boss's response to the impact of the 1996 version of the Telecommunications Law on the entire communications field in the United States. Tend to capital operation.

In fact, there are traces of this.

According to internal information, the fledgling Datang Mobile Communications Company does not refuse to merge with Pacific Telecom; and the big boss has a cooperative relationship with MCI for many years, and the feasibility of directly acquiring the other party is still very high—this is comparable to Pacific Telecom. It is much more cost-effective for telecommunications to start a long-distance business from scratch.

Tang Huan did not respond to the very close guesses made by his shrewd subordinates—this kind of layout is only suitable for handing over to a smaller circle of executives, and it is always right to keep a low profile.

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After working so hard for so long, this year's Lunar New Year and the following first month are extraordinarily busy. Therefore, Mr. the richest man who is the most caring, returned to Chang'an City, ready to take a good rest, and take care of housework by the way.

The first is the issue of the sons of Tang going to higher education—after Deng Lijun's Jin Chang and Jin Ge went to Harvard University on the east coast of the United States last year, this year, Lin Fengjiao's Jin Ming, Jin Liang and Nu Chuan Aristotle and Socrates produced by Wang Christina have also reached the time to make a choice.

The situation with the ship queen Christina is relatively special. After more than ten years of development, the Onassis family has surpassed the strength of the old ship king by many times, and the cultivation of successors is also relatively independent. The whereabouts of the two children are basically determined to be Oxford or Cambridge University in the UK.

The choice of which university to apply for in the United States roughly determines the inertia of the future circle, which is even more obvious.

As the eldest sons, Jin Chang and Jin Ge were trained by Tang Huan as capital operators in charge of the overall situation, so they went to the East Coast, the political and economic center of the United States. Then, how Jin Ming and Jin Liang arranged is even more intriguing. up.

Tang Huan belongs to the style of big things are unambiguous at home. Once a decision is made, even his aunt Tang Yun will stay away.

After returning home this time, Tang Huan called Jin Ming and Jin Liang, who were already 15 years old, to the study room, and had a long talk. The first question was of course choosing a university.

The two young brothers were quite excited to finally spread their wings and fly high, eager to try and stay away from their parents' sight, and go to the east coast of the United States to find something new.

Tang Huan said kindly, Since you have become my sons, your missions are naturally different—in fact, your own conditions are also inherently unique.

Jin Ming and Jin Liang, who had already tasted the idea of ​​wanting to have fun and run outside to be pressed by their father, were not annoyed at all, and nodded sensibly together in agreement.

The situation of the Tang family is indeed special. The wealthy country can't be ranked at all. The main reason is that twins are too commonplace, and they are all geniuses. It is estimated that only Tang Huan, a mass manufacturer, can understand that they are twins. Some kind of mysterious mapping of the hundreds of cores in my own brain.

Seeing that the two sons understood and were honest, Tang Huan smiled gratifiedly and said, So, you should stay in the west coast of the United States to go to college—a lot of practical work, waiting for your brothers to help in the future.

The older the sons of Tang, the more they can feel the majesty of their father - when this decision was made, both Jin Ming and Jin Liang happily expressed that they obeyed the arrangement.

After listening to the teaching for a while, the two brothers resigned.

After leaving the study room, they saw the maid who had served their mother for many years making a reminder gesture not far away.

So Jin Ming and Jin Liang rushed to see their mother Lin Fengjiao and aunt Tang Yun.

When she heard that her two sons would go to Stanford University for further study, Lin Fengjiao let out a sigh of relief and a happy smile appeared on her face.

Your father is still very sensible, knowing that your mother and I are reluctant to let you travel far away. Tang Yun, who was also very pleased, nodded and said: However, you must also be mentally prepared to take responsibility-there are so many things in Silicon Valley. Your father inadvertently confided to me that he had a premonition that a crisis was at hand.

When the old lady said this, she waved her hand boldly, Fighting brothers, fighting father and son—you must be ready to do things at any time.

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The leisure activities of the richest man in Chang'an City naturally include watching movies. Anyway, there is a small theater here, and the effect can be called the top in the world.

Hu Yinmeng recommended to Tang Huan a new movie starring Andy Lau and Liang Jiahui. The content of the story is roughly that Andy Lau plays Fang Guohui, an officer of the Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Justice. . Zhou Chaoxian tried to save himself by running for the Legislative Council, switching from the underworld to the political stage, and then using the umbrella of public opinion representatives, but in the end, the evil was overwhelming and he was brought to justice by Fang Guohui.

This film, with an investment of 60 million Hong Kong dollars, was co-produced by several film companies, and Mai Jiaban took the lead. The scenes were shot in Taipei, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Kaohsiung, and Pingtung. There are scenes with great visual impact such as police riots and helicopter chases, and the subject matter is a social sensation topic that McDonald is good at-alluding to the increasingly notorious black money political phenomenon in Taiwan after entering the 1990s.

Because it was too realistic and alluded to many people, it was almost blocked by Baodao. Although the joint was finally opened, the name of the movie was changed from Black Gold when it was released in Xiangjiang to Sicily of Love when it was released in Baodao.

To be honest, such a film with violent and passionate scenes from time to time is really not suitable for family viewing. After all, it is really rare that Deng Lijun, Lin Qingxia, Lin Fengjiao, Hu Yinmeng and others can sit together .

However, Tang's richest man still chose to let everyone watch this movie together, which can be regarded as raising the awareness of vigilance for all the girls.

Since the Strait Crisis kicked off last summer, it entered the most severe stage in March this year. Phenomena such as panic and stock market crashes emerged again—even the US aircraft carrier battle group was seduced to the past.

As the focus of political life, influential celebrities like Deng Lijun and Lin Qingxia must return to Baodao to participate.

Tang Huan clearly remembered how public security in Treasure Island in this period in the original time and space collapsed, and major criminal cases broke out one after another, but the authorities were helpless, and they were even unable to let the murderer go unpunished, or become a so-called well-known figure tracked by the media.

In an understatement, the girls who needed to go back to Treasure Island naturally accepted their man's arrangement to strengthen the security of their accompanying team—although it would inevitably cause some inconvenience, but safety comes first!

After the plan was decided, Tang Huan was interested in joking: Liang Jiahui's acting skills are getting deeper and deeper! When you watch Zhou Chaoxian in his performance, when he says 'who is in favor, who is against', he is full of domineering——I even started to feel a little bit I suspect that he has been on the road before.

That's not a deep understanding, it's just that he is very serious! Hu Yinmeng rolled his eyes, In order to play the role well, Liang Jiahui went to Baodao to observe the life of gangsters two months before the filming started, in order to collect materials, and even wrote a 100,000-word biography of Zhou Chaoxian himself.”

Tang Huan nodded suddenly, This year is the year of the US election, and Americans will be very interested in things related to politics - you might as well make this movie work well.

Everyone was talking, when Lin Qingxia came in angrily with a laptop computer in her arms and complained, Dad, look, those nasty guys from Netscape are blatantly scolding us .”

Jin Yan, who has been particularly interested in computer security recently, has been hanging out with Symantec.

When he was scanning the Netscape browser products, he unintentionally parsed out a string—Zheru engineer is a piece of shit, which suddenly made the little guy who attaches great importance to honor unbearable.

Tang Huan took the laptop, browsed it carefully, and couldn't help frowning.