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   Chapter 830 Thief shouts to catch thief

  Song Yang invited Tom DeLay to give speeches to companies such as ICQ, which is actually equivalent to giving him "public relations fees". These incomes are reasonable and legal, and they belong to your own wishes, and no one can fault it.

As for what Song Yang promised just now, he would donate US knives to Tom DeLay's campaign office and the family foundation. That must be done by ICQ. Song Yang couldn't possibly pay for these things. After all, the current ICQ , Song Yang is not alone!

   "Bill, this is a win-win merger, as long as WorldCom and Sprint stand together, we will be the largest telephone empire in the world, and you will also become the co-CEO of WorldCom-Print Group!"

Bernard Ebbs, who is sitting at the WorldCom headquarters, is eagerly facing the president of Sprint. Like Bernard Ebbs, Disney Emperor Eisner and others, Bill Asri is also Sprint. Emperor of the Lint Telecom Empire.

Bill Asri has been in charge of Sprint Group for more than 14 years. Except for not taking all the equity of Sprint Telecom Group into his own hands, the entire management and board of directors of Sprint , has been completely controlled by Asri, and even during his lymphoma surgery last year, the entire Sprint Group was still firmly controlled by him and his cronies.

America has gone through a golden decade. Groups such as General Electric, Disney, WorldCom, and Sprint have all become giant companies in these years. Welch and Eisner, who led these companies into giants, , Bernard, Bill Asri, and others, have become the undisputed emperors of these groups.

  Because the whole world was brought down by them, their cronies spread throughout the company, and even the board of directors and major shareholders depend on them to manage the company.

This is the golden age of professional managers. In the next 20 years, it will be hard to see strong professional managers like Welch, Bernard, Eisner and Bill Asri in the American workplace. , the scene where the company's founder family and major shareholders can be forced to swallow their voices and cry to the media...

  Different from the domineering of WorldCom's internal staff, Bernard Ebes's attitude is still clear when faced with Asri, who has the same status as himself.

Bernard described the image of the combined empire to Asri, "The American telephone market has not seen an empire for a long time, now is the time, after the new telecommunications law, it is time for a company to emerge to solve the problems of the telecommunications industry. It's messed up."

   Bernard Ebbs waved his big hands. Even though there was no one in front of him in the office, Bernard still couldn't hide his excitement.

Bill Asri on the other end of the phone listened to Bernard's words, and now the executives of WorldCom and Sprint are just beginning to contact, but to talk about something, Bernard and Bill Ace are needed. Rui and the two must be determined, otherwise it is doomed to be empty.

Bernard has already made a condition. After the merger is completed, Asri will become the executive officer of the empire with him, just like the dual consuls of the ancient Roman Empire. Judging from Bernard's character, he can say This means that a huge concession has really been made!

"Bernard," Bill Ashley said instead of directly agreeing, but not objecting, "I heard that the Telephone and Telegraph Group, Southwest Bell, American Telecom, and even the Canadian Bell Group are all opposed to this initiative initiated by WorldCom. M&A!

   On Capitol Hill and the Department of Justice, WorldCom has not done it. Even if we do negotiate, if we can’t pass that hurdle, we are destined to not be able to reach a deal, and there is one more thing…”

Bill Asri's tone became a little more serious, "I hope you can guarantee that there is absolutely no problem with WorldCom's finances. I have heard some rumors about the financial situation this year after the merger of AOL and Time Warner. , very unsatisfactory, they have delayed the first quarter results report, ICQ's combined first quarter report is not as good as expected, and honestly, these are not good news!"

The rumors about WorldCom's financial problems have to start with what happened when Song Yang hated WorldCom. At that time, Song Yang threatened that WorldCom's finances were much better than other companies of the same type. A lot of media attention, followed by news that there may be fraud in WorldCom's finance.

   These news, although they were all suppressed by WorldCom's strong force, but the rumors have finally appeared, because WorldCom earns a lot more than its peers, it will inevitably lead to suspicion!

   Hearing Bill Asri mention this, Bernard Ebbs squeezed the phone's hand, blue veins appeared, and he hated Song Yang who had made these rumors even more itchy.

But at this time, Bernard Ebbes knew that it wasn't the time to complain, so he laughed and said proudly, "Bill, you think that WorldCom has gotten to where it is today because of a few false accounts. to today?!

   That kid Bruno Song was born in the Internet. What the Internet is, they are just a bunch of people who play tricks and trick people. What they are best at is to make some gimmicks. "

Hearing this, Bill Asri couldn't help nodding his head. He felt that what Bernard said was indeed reasonable. If he made fake accounts and played financial fraud, with WorldCom's current scale, how big should the fake accounts be? , it can't be more than two or three billion dollars, right? !

Bill Asley himself felt that this idea was ridiculous. If WorldCom was so daring, then Bernard Ebbs, an old boy, was really daring to burn a boiler on a dynamite bag. If something happened, he would definitely Send yourself to federal prison.

   I haven't talked too much about this kind of thing. Bernard Ebbs knows that no matter how much we talk about this kind of thing, it's absolutely incomprehensible.

   "Bill, I know, you are working on the Sprint SprintION project. Once WorldCom and Sprint are merged, I will absolutely support your project. This is the meaning of everything I am doing now!"

Bill Asriy couldn't help feeling refreshed. He was also approaching retirement. Before retirement, he wanted to do another big project, just like General Electric's Welch, who wanted to buy Honeywell, come on. As the curtain call performance of his illustrious career.

  Bill Ashley also wants to integrate the functions of various communication services, such as long-distance and short-distance calls, as well as broadband and TV networks, into one network. This is his SprintION project.

This project is huge and expensive, but once completed, Sprint will completely become a giant in the communications industry, but Sprint is pessimistic about this project because it is too huge It's too difficult, and other communication companies won't sit still or cooperate with Sprint.

   Now hearing that Bernard Ebbs is willing to support him, Bill Asri couldn't help but be moved, and after merging with WorldCom, he can solve a lot of Asri's troubles, including his aftermath after retirement!

   (end of this chapter)