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It has to be said that the consciousness of "struggle" of the monopoly resource controllers has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow, and they will come as soon as they open their mouths -- even if the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, which has always been among the top 10 in terms of market capitalization, can make it "kneel" when it comes to the territory of Pacific Telecom, and the Federal Communications Commission has not yet been able to grasp the handle. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Tang Huan, who has never denied that he is positive and strange and complements each other, is noncommittal, and at most occasionally interjects a few words, guiding these 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, don't look at the 1996 version of the telecommunications law, hundreds of competitors, surging, so not scary, but think about it, the real threat is still those practitioners who already exist, such as the other 6 former Bell local telephone companies, AT&T and other princes - this is determined by the inherent monopoly characteristics of the telecommunications industry, as well as the first-mover advantage that is difficult to surpass, it is difficult for newcomers to get ahead, MCI's painstaking business history over the past few decades is the best evidence.

Specifically, in the field of local telephones, which are the main business areas of Pacific Telecom, it is extremely difficult to introduce "full competition" in practice, which is not comparable to the field of long-distance telephones.

There are two main reasons for this.

The first is the historical inertia formed since the implementation of the 1934 version of the telecommunications law, that is, while the Federal Communications Commission is an independent ~ independent agency to manage the U.S. telecommunications market, the public interest commissions of each state also have the power to regulate the telecommunications market in their own states, and the states make the local telephone market dominant for various purposes. Naturally, this gave rise to the existence of mountaineering, local interest groups, and so on.

The second is the cost reason, that is, from the perspective of economic efficiency, the operating cost of the local telephone service is relatively large, especially for residential telephones, the input cost is particularly high, but it is subject to profit control, and the income is very low. As a result, the combination of high costs and low margins spontaneously discouraged the strong desire of potential competitors to enter the market call field. In addition, the new entrants themselves have a competitive disadvantage and cannot compete fairly with the existing operators, thus further consolidating the monopoly pattern of the local telephone market.

To put it bluntly, the market is inherently so xenophobic that it is difficult for new competitors to join.

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 telephone, local telephone and cable television to enter each other, and in the actual operation process, the specific difficulty is different - new competitors want to enter the field of local telephone, the most difficult!

When this conclusion was discussed more and more certainly, those who had come up with ideas and tricks before subconsciously tightened their mouths and sat down with a gentlemanly demeanor.

Since the local telephone field, the base camp of Pacific Telecom's business scope, is not as difficult to defend as it was thought at the beginning, how to enter the long-awaited long-distance telephone field has naturally been laid out.

It is no exaggeration to say that under the auspices of the 1996 edition of the Telecommunications Act, new competitors entering the long-distance telephone market are so convenient that they can simply apply for a license from the Federal Communications Commission.

However, although the entry threshold has been greatly reduced, it does not necessarily mean that the survival of the industry will be so smooth in the future.

You must know that in the field of long-distance telephone, which introduced the competition mechanism early, the territory has also been carved up - AT&T occupies more than 70% of the market share; MCI and Sprint each have a market share of about 10 percent.

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

Based on the experience of MCI and Sprint in surviving the power of AT&T over the years, low prices are the only powerful weapon available.

In this case, the pressure to survive as a new competitor is heavy, you can imagine!

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In this way, the meeting, which lasted for several days, came to an unanimous and clear understanding of the road ahead.

When Tang Huan concluded, he specifically pointed out that the monopoly in the field of local calls should continue, but this does not mean that new competitors have no choice.

Looking around at everyone, Mr. The richest man waved his hand, "If I were a new competitor, I would take a more direct approach - buy this local phone company." ”

"In other words, Pacific Telecom may not be afraid of new small and medium-sized competitors, but it must be vigilant about acquisition risks."

Speaking of this, Tang Huan said in an accentuated tone: "Here, I can make a very confident prediction - the 1996 version of the Telecommunications Law has liberalized various controls, which will inevitably lead to the formal separation of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company in 1984 and the seven former Bell Local Telephone Companies, including Pacific Telecom, in the next few years, there will be a wave of capital operations merging with each other. ”

"After all, it is too hard to challenge an existing monopolist as a new competitor, and the outcome is unpredictable, and there is no more direct way than an acquisition."

The participants were all masters of seeing and listening to all directions, and they immediately tasted the subtext from these words - for the impact of the 1996 version of the telecommunications law on the entire communications field in the United States, the response of the big bosses is inclined 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; The big boss and MCI have had a long-term cooperative relationship, and it is still very feasible to directly buy each other - this is much more cost-effective than Pacific Telecom's long-distance telephone business from scratch.

For the shrewd subordinates, Tang Huan did not respond to the speculation that was quite close - this kind of layout is only suitable for a smaller circle of executives to operate, and it is always right to keep a low profile.

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After working hard for so long, this year's Lunar New Year and the following New Year seem to be extremely busy. So, the richest man who is the best at maintenance returned to "Chang'an City", ready to take a good rest, and deal with housework by the way.

First of all, the "sons of Tang" went to school - 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 and Jin Liang and the female ship king Christina's Aristotle and Socrates should also make a choice.

The situation on the side of the female ship king Christina is relatively special, after more than ten years of development, the Onassis family does not know how many times the strength of the old ship king when he was alive, and then the cultivation of the successor is relatively independent - the whereabouts of these two children are basically determined by Oxford University or Cambridge University in the United Kingdom.

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

As the eldest son, Jin Chang and Jin Ge were cultivated by Tang Huan as capital operators who led the overall situation, so they went to the East Coast, the political ~ economic center of the United States, so how to arrange Jin Ming and Jin Liang is even more intriguing.

Tang Huan belongs to the "big things are not ambiguous" style at home, once the decision is made, even his aunt Tang Yun has to retreat.

After returning home this time, Tang Huan called Jin Ming and Jin Liang, who were already 15 years old, to the study and had a long talk, and the first problem was naturally the choice of university.

The little brothers have a sense of joy that they are finally going to "spread their wings and fly high", and they are eager to get away from their parents' sight and go to the East Coast of the United States to find something new.

Tang Huan said with a pleasant face: "Since you have become my son, your mission is naturally different - in fact, your own conditions are also inherently unique. ”

has already tasted the idea of "wanting to run outside happily", and Jin Ming and Jin Liang, who are going to be pressed by their father, are not annoyed, and nod sensibly together.

The situation of the Tang family is indeed special, the "rich rival country" is not ranked at all, the main reason is that the "twins" are too commonplace, and they are all geniuses - it is estimated that only Tang Huan, a batch maker, can understand that they are some kind of mysterious reflection of the hundreds of "cores" in their brains.

Seeing that the two sons were quite honest in their hearts, Tang Huan smiled with relief: "So, you should stay on the West Coast of the United States and go to college - a lot of practice, waiting for your brother to help deal with it in the future." ”

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

After listening to the teachings for a while, the two brothers retired.

When they got out of the study, 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 hurried to see their mother Lin Fengjiao and aunt Tang Yun.

When he heard that his two sons would go to Stanford University to further his studies, Lin Fengjiao breathed a sigh of relief and a happy smile appeared on his face.

"Your father is still very sensible, and knows that your mother and I are reluctant for you to travel." Tang Yun, who was also relieved, nodded and said: "However, you also have to be mentally prepared to take responsibility - there are so many things in Silicon Valley, and your father inadvertently confided in me that he had a premonition that there was a crisis in front of him." ”

When the old lady said this, she waved her hand heroically, "Brothers in battle, fathers and sons in battle—you must be ready to do things at any time." ”

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The leisure activities of Mr. the richest man in "Chang'an City" naturally include watching movies. Anyway, there are small theaters here, and the effect is among the best in the world.

Hu Yinmeng recommended a new movie starring Andy Lau and Liang Jiahui to Tang Huan, the story content is roughly Fang Guohui, an agent of the Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Justice played by Andy Lau, investigating many illegal incidents involved in Zhou Chaoxian, the boss of the Treasure Island Black ~ gang played by Liang Jiahui. Zhou Chaoxian tried to change from the underworld to the political ~ governance stage by running for the legislature, and then used the umbrella of public opinion representatives to save himself, but after all, the evil was invincible and was brought to justice by Fang Guohui.

This film, with an investment of 60 million Hong Kong dollars, is jointly produced by several film companies, and "Mai Jiaban" is the main punishment, filmed all over Taipei, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Kaohsiung, Pingtung, the scene is very large, with wolf dog chases, taxi troubles, helicopter pursuits and other very visually impactful shots, and the subject matter is a social sensation that Mai Dangxiong is good at - alluding to the increasingly notorious black gold politics ~ governance phenomenon after Baodao entered the 1990s.

Because it was too realistic and alluded to many people, it was almost blocked by Treasure Island, and in the end, although the joint was opened, the name of the movie was changed from "Black Gold" when Xiangjiang was released to "Sicily of Love" when Treasure Island was released.

To be honest, such a film that presents a violent and passionate scene from time to time is really not suitable for family viewing, after all, it is really rare for Deng Lijun, Lin Qingfang, Lin Fengjiao, Hu Yinmeng and others to sit together.

However, Tang Shoufu still chose to let everyone watch this movie together, which can be regarded as raising the vigilance of all women.

Since the beginning of the strait crisis last summer, it entered its most severe stage in March this year, and phenomena such as panic and stock market crashes have once again emerged in a concentrated manner -- even the US aircraft carrier battle group has been "seduced" into the past.

As the focus of political ~ governance life, stars with huge influence like Deng Lijun and Lin Qingbian can't hide and must return to the treasure island to participate.

Tang Huan clearly remembers how the social order of the treasure island in this period of time and space collapsed, and major criminal cases broke out one after another, but the officials were helpless, and even incompetent to let the murderer go unpunished, or become a so-called well-known figure tracked and reported by the media.

To put it mildly, the women who need to return to the treasure island naturally accept their man's arrangement to enhance the security force of their entourage team - although it will inevitably cause some inconvenience, but safety first!

After the plan was decided, Tang Huancai quipped with interest: "Liang Jiahui's acting skills are getting deeper and deeper!" You look at his performance of Zhou Chaoxian, when he says, 'Who is in favor, who is against', he is very domineering - I am beginning to wonder if he has been mixed in the Tao before. ”

"That's not a deep understanding, it's just that people are very serious!" Hu Yinmeng rolled his eyes, "In order to play a good role, Liang Jiahui went to Baodao to observe the life of the gangster two months before the start of filming, in order to collect information, and even wrote a biography of more than 100,000 words of Zhou Chaoxian's characters by himself. ”

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

While everyone was talking, Lin Qingfang's Jinyan, holding a laptop, walked in angrily and complained: "Dad, look at it, those hateful guys from Netscape actually scolded us in a grand manner. ”

Jinyan, who has been particularly interested in computer security recently, has been following Symantec for a long time.

When he was scanning the Netscape browser product, he inadvertently parsed a string - Engineer Zheru is a piece of, which suddenly made the little guy who values honor very much unbearable.

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