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Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist
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Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist Hardcover - 2003 - 1st Edition

by Om P. Malik


Summary

Investigating the financial fraud and misguided power plays that brought down the telecom industry Once the foundation of the Dow and NASDAQ, the telecom industry has eaten up more capital than any other industry in recent history and has nothing to show for it. Today, it is by far the worst culprit in the spate of financial dirty dealings that have been splashed across the business pages, and yet the rewards reaped by top executives at many of these failed or failing companies have been inversely proportionate to their decline. Broadbandits takes readers behind the scenes to get the story they won't get in the media. Investigative reporter Om Malik follows the money trail and deciphers the actions and motivations of a generation of new economy "barbarians" that brought down this once lucrative industry. This intriguing book offers an inside look into the telecom bubble, with tales and anecdotes about mavericks who turned simple light and glass fibers into veins of g...

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Bernie Ebbers, the founder of WorldCom, had made a very bad bet and lost.

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  • Title Broadbandits: Inside the $750 Billion Telecom Heist
  • Author Om P. Malik
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley, Hoboken, N.J
  • Date 2003
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780471434054 / 0471434051
  • Weight 1.29 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.33 x 6.31 x 1.15 in (23.70 x 16.03 x 2.92 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Consolidation and merger of corporations -, Business failures - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002156438
  • Dewey Decimal Code 384.097

About the author

OM MALIK is a Senior Writer for Business 2.0 in San Francisco. Prior to joining Business 2.0, he worked for Red Herring and Forbes Online, where he was a senior editor. An award-winning journalist, his work has also been published in newspapers and magazines such as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Brandweek, and CrainOs New York Business. For a very brief while, he was a venture capitalist.
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