Chapter 363 (1/2)

San Francisco.

In a villa in Woodside hills, a western suburb of Palo Alto.

When it was just light, Simon subconsciously reached for it and took a slender waist into his arms.

As soon as she picked up a vest and wanted to put it on, Jennifer was held by Simon and pressed close to the man's chest. Knowing that he liked this feeling very much, she didn't resist. She nestled for a while before coaxing the child to say in a low voice: ”let me go, OK? I'll help you prepare breakfast, and I'll go back to work later. ”

Last night, after attending the reception of Lu wassalman, chairman of MCA, the female assistant said no but was abducted to San Francisco by Simon.

Simon swam his hands over the girl assistant and said, ”sleep with me a little longer, Alison. They'll prepare breakfast.”

”But I want to prepare it for you myself.”

”All right.”

Feeling Jennifer's insistence, Simon had to let go and watched the assistant get out of bed and walk to the bathroom after putting on her vest and pants. He also sat up quickly.

In the early 1990s, Woodside mountain was not as prosperous and crowded as it was after the Internet era. At the end of August, because it was also in the Mediterranean climate region, the surrounding area was still full of business.

As the Assistant prepares breakfast in the kitchen, Simon changes into a sportswear and leaves the house to jog on the asphalt road in the mountains.

It's a rare opportunity for Simon to exercise freely. The population near Malibu is relatively dense, and his every move will also attract attention. He can only exercise in the villa gym on weekdays, especially if he goes to New York.

As he was running, a black Mercedes Benz slowed down suddenly and pulled over. The window was pulled down. A middle-aged man said to Simon through the window, ”man, there are two people behind you...” In the middle of the conversation, the middle-aged man recognized Simon, surprised, surprised and uncertain, and asked, ”are you, um, Simon westero?”

Knowing that the middle-aged man was kind enough to remind himself that two people were following him, Simon stopped, nodded with a smile and said, ”good morning.”

The two bodyguards who jogged with Simon also stepped up vigilantly to catch up.

The middle-aged man knew that he had made a joke and got out of the car to say hello to Simon. He turned out to be a senior manager of Oracle and left a business card when he left. He handed the card to Neil Bennett behind him. Simon continued to jog. Ten minutes later, he returned to his residence. The female assistant was ready for breakfast.

Without the help of the AB girls who came together this time, they brought their breakfast into the restaurant in person.

After breakfast, the female assistant talked about the cocktail party last night: ”vassalman has found out our layout. What are you going to do next?”

At the cocktail party last night, Lou wassalman said frankly that he knew that Simon was preparing to buy MCA. He also revealed to him the progress of negotiations between Panasonic and MCA, and frankly welcomed danilisi entertainment and Panasonic to bid for their own company.

Simon, of course, will not join the acquisition negotiations immediately according to vassalman's wishes, but he just played a perfunctory role.

At this time, Simon said, ”do you remember the plan that AOL submitted a month ago to buy out Bell Atlantic, bell Pacific and Nynex regional telecommunication network platforms to develop the Internet?”

In the famous at-t Split case in 1983, bell telephone and Telegraph Company, which once monopolized the entire U.S. telecommunications market, was split into national at-t, which mainly engaged in long-distance telephone, and seven other regional telephone companies. Simon just mentioned three of the seven little bell companies in that year, and they are also the regions of more than ten states on the East and west coasts where AOL plans to focus its business Mobile telecom company.

In addition to a small number of self built line networks, most of AOL can only rent the line network platform of traditional bell system.

With the promising prospect of the Internet industry, Steve case submitted a plan to Simon at the end of last month, hoping to buy out the Internet access service franchise of Bell Atlantic and other three companies, and sign an exclusive agreement by paying a certain fee to the three companies every year, which can not only prevent other Internet service providers from entering the business of AOL In addition, it can obtain more support from the three operators in terms of Internet access services.

If the heads of the three regional telecom companies can see the future like Simon, they will not agree with AOL's proposal in any case.

You know, once you sign the 20-year exclusive contract proposed by Steve case, not only other Internet service providers, but even the three telecom companies themselves, can't carry out ISP business alone.

However, the reality is that the Internet industry in the United States has just sprung up, and AOL has only more than 100000 users. This kind of figure is just a trifle in front of traditional telecom giants, and it's not worth participating in. If you can get an extra income through selling off the platform, why not?

As a result, all three companies expressed interest in Steve Case's proposal.However, the specific terms of cooperation, the parties saw for a month, have not reached an agreement.