Back To 1995

  Chapter 1163 replaces it

When Skype began to sweep America, Telephone and Telegraph Group, Sprint, Verizon, Chartered Telecom, Southwestern Bell and other American telecom giants did not pay attention to Skype at first, but knew what Skype was playing American Telecom, however, is also pretending to be deaf and dumb.

America Telecom will indeed be affected by Skype, but so what, America Telecom's telephone and telecommunications services are not the most important business. This short board.

  Compared with other telecommunications giants, American Telecom does not rely on these two businesses for a living, even if the telephone business loses money? !

However, the rise of Skype is beneficial to American Telecom. After all, if you install Skype on your computer, you must install broadband if you want to use it. If you install Skype on your mobile phone, your mobile phone card must also be able to access the Internet. And who is America's largest broadband and mobile network operator? America Telecom!

The lost income from phone bills, broadband and mobile networks can be doubled for America Telecom. Every additional Skype user is equivalent to one more broadband and mobile network user for America Telecom. The more Skype users, the more potential users America Telecom will have. If you want to make a fortune silently, why rush to the front!

   It was a report in the American Communications News that really made the giants such as Telephone and Telegraph pay attention to Skype, "Skype is changing the communication industry in America!"

  America Communications, this report can be regarded as uncovering the tip of the iceberg of the Skype platform. Under the guise of providing voice services for World of Warcraft game players, it secretly poked at the corners of major telecommunications groups.

Then, a data report of the Telephone and Telegraph Group was exposed, which caused an uproar in the entire communication industry. The telephone user activity of the Telephone and Telegraph Group in New York dropped by 4.8% in a single month, and the revenue of the telephone business dropped by 11.5%. New York is the city with the most players in World of Warcraft and one of the cities with the most Skype users!

  When the news came out that the American Telegraph and Telephone and Telegraph Group's revenue in New York had plummeted, Skype quickly aroused tension between the American communications industry and major overseas telecommunications groups.

  “When I finished downloading Skype, I realized that the era of traditional telecommunications is over!”

  The Wall Street Journal, after publishing the opinion of Mike Bowen, the head of the American Federal Communications Commission, on Skype, silenced the entire American telecommunications industry.

The report of the Wall Street Journal made Skype compete with the telecommunications industry for jobs, and it began to be made public. The voice of Skype replacing traditional phone providers suddenly appeared. As the parent company of the Skype platform, its stock price rose sharply because of World of Warcraft. ICQ once again ushered in a sharp rise in stock price, and its market value exceeded 280 billion US dollars. Jianfeng pointed to the 300 billion US dollar market value mark. Once reached, it will surpass Microsoft and General Electric and become the world's most valuable group!

Skype is no better than World of Warcraft. World of Warcraft set off a wave of online games, allowing the outside world to see another way to monetize traffic. However, Skype can cross-border and use the Internet to make cross-border calls, which makes people imagine. I know that it is basically a dream to replace several major telecommunications groups with just one Skype, but the dream is still to be done, what if? !

  Even if there is only 1% hope, it is enough to make people think about Skype. If it can replace Telephone and Telegraph, Verizon, etc., the market value of ICQ can reach, and Wall Street institutions are a little unimaginable.

"Twitter and Skype are the two major projects launched by Bruno Song after regaining the controlling stake in ICQ from General Electric. Song Suowang may really change the media and telecommunications industry!"

The media began to praise Song Yang crazily. Before, they questioned that Song Yang was not doing his job properly, and his mind was no longer on the Internet, but now Twitter has been endowed with Internet media attributes, has amazing influence, and is considered to be a new generation of Internet media. On behalf of Skype, it seems that Skype is going to overthrow the pattern of the traditional telecom industry. After Twitter and Skype became the new focus of the Internet, the media once again praised Song Yanglai.

   The popularity of World of Warcraft, media reports, free calls and other labels combined together did not allow the American telecommunications industry to stop Skype. In less than two weeks after its launch, Skype announced that it had more than 6 million users worldwide!

At this time, it is impossible to kill Skype in the cradle. The giants in the American telecommunications industry can only find ways to make Skype remove the free calling function, or use other means to deal with Skype. Afraid of being replaced by Skype.

The American Telecom Operators Association was quickly convened. In theory, the Telecom Operators Association is the representative of the entire communications industry in America. It was formed by 15 small long-distance telecommunications companies more than ten years ago. Operators have already joined, including America Telecom.

But like other associations, the association where a group of small telecommunications companies gathered together to fight against the telecommunications giants has already been controlled by several major telecommunications giants such as Telephone and Telegraph Group and Verizon. The company, basically, can only wave the flag and shout, and there is no room for opposition at all.

   "What does Mike Bowen mean? What does it mean to be powerless to Skype? In order to support Bruno Song, the commander-in-chief's face is gone, right?!"

In the New York Hotel held by the Association of Telecommunications Operators, several major telecommunications operators in America basically gathered here. When William Hannigan, the newly appointed president of the Telephone and Telegraph Group, just walked into the hotel conference room, he heard a loud noise inside. Scolding.

   Those who scolded Skype, scolded ICQ, scolded Song Yang, and scolded the boss of the Communications Committee Mike Bowen and the leader of the little cowboy, it can be said that there are endless voices.

  If ordinary people from the outside world hear that the presidents of several of the top 100 companies in America are sitting here, and scolding the street here, they will probably be shocked.

Entering inside, William Hannigan saw Southwest Bell President Edward Whitaker, South Bell President Jon Kelly, Verizon President Lowell McAdam, Sprint President Bill Asry There were Chartered Communications, Quest Telecom, etc., and nearly a dozen mainstream telecom operators in America were present. Lucent, a telecom equipment manufacturer, was also invited to attend.

After William Hannigan entered inside, the swearing just now stopped suddenly. In any case, whether the Telephone and Telegraph Group has declined or not depends on his name. He is also the new head of the Telephone and Telegraph Group. William Hannigan is theoretically the leading brother of the telecommunications industry in America.

After all, Southwest Bell, South Bell, and Lucent were all spun off from the Telephone and Telegraph Group at the beginning. Now America Telecom, which is vaguely going to be the first brother of America Telecom, was also a younger brother of the Telephone and Telegraph Group. The president of the Telephone and Telegraph Group naturally became a big shot in America's communications industry!

The only president of a telecommunications company in the room who is qualified to sit on an equal footing with William Hannigan is probably the veteran Bill Ashley who has been in charge of Sprint for decades. Ashley's qualifications are too old Well, the current leaders and executives in the telecommunications industry are all his juniors, so of course they are qualified to dictate to them.

   As for whether the "junior people" are willing to listen, that is another matter. Anyway, Bill Ashley is qualified to scold!

For the scolding just now, William Hannigan seemed to have never heard of it. It was just scolding. If he had time to go to the United Nations Headquarters in New York to attend an international conference, that would be called refreshing the three views. It was more than just scolding. It's possible to throw leather shoes at each other if they don't agree with each other. We are all human beings with emotions and desires. The difference between ordinary people and so-called big shots when they are impatient is just that the former can be seen by the world on the street, while the latter is generally seen by the world. Where he can't reach, he usually maintains a tall and big image in front of everyone.

  William Hannigan glanced left and right, and knew that Iger, the president of American Telecom, hadn't arrived yet.

Seeing William Hannigan's gaze, sitting aside, Edward Whitaker, who scolded the street just now, and who was also the worst scolder, reminded William Hannigan "kindly", "Iger from American Telecom was not present, I'm afraid he doesn't want to come to this meeting either!"

As the newly appointed head of the Telephone and Telegraph Group, William Hannigan took Betts's class. Before taking office, William Hannigan was full of confidence. The tycoon with the market capitalization is still the big brother in the telecommunications industry, but after taking over, William Hannigan knew what kind of mess Betts left him. It looks glamorous, but the Telephone and Telegraph Group actually It is already terminally ill, anyway, William Hannigan's first performance report after taking over is estimated to scare the analysts of Wall Street institutions to death...

Bill Ashley, who was sitting in the meeting room, glanced at the faces of everyone in the hotel meeting room. From the performance of these people on the scene, he could roughly guess what the situation of this group of colleagues was. Edward Whittaker is the most active, and his Southwestern Bell is just like him, eyeing a tiger, trying to swallow one opponent after another.

On the contrary, although William Hannigan's performance is "calm and composed", it is obviously abnormal. Iris does not know whether William Hannigan has just taken office and has not yet taken control of the Telephone and Telegraph Group, or whether something has happened within the giant. What kind of situation makes Hannigan seem a little "unembarrassed".

   "America Telecom Carriers Association, America Telecom is needed!"

  (end of this chapter)