Derek_Wildstar
Why the fck is Shane walking in there?
join:2001-02-24
Iscandar
| ...and the beat goes on... Isn't it amazing how the events of the past 18 months have left the once-burgeoning telecom industry a virtual scorched-earth wasteland littered with the charred remains of companies like NorthPoint and Rhythms, and walking-dead like Covad, McLeod and CoreComm? Every day, when I read the Plain Dealer or the WSJ, I see more and more telecom companies dropping by the wayside - and in their wake, some chief executives getting million-dollar bonuses and thousands of disgruntled ex-employees getting hosed. Heck, even though there was some serious accounting monkey-business going on at Enron, a large part of the money problems that led to their Chap. 11 had to do with broadband and fiber optics.
I predict that within the next 5 years, we will start seeing a lot of new legislation enacted to control stuff like this. For example, look at the securities markets. Up until the end of 1933, there was virtually no legislation regulating activities in the securities market. Then, Black Monday (Oct. 29, 1929) hit and the mass dumping of securities in the week that followed nearly destroyed the U.S. economy and helped send us into the Great Depression. As a result, Congress passed the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Maloney Act, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 - all with the intention of seriously regulating and controlling the securities industry to prevent a debacle like what happened in 1929 from ever happening again.
Even though the financial situation we are in isn't even an inkling of what they were in the early 1930's, I still believe that enough damage has been done to the telecom industry that we will start seeing more serious legislation than the joke that is Tauzin-Dingell. Gird your loins, my friends. Or, better yet, call or write your elected representatives today to tell them how you want to start seeing things.
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