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David McCourt on Trends Impacting the Telecom Industry (Audio) · Bloomberg Intelligence

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  Speaker 1: has been described as having impeccable credentials as a telecom revolutionary.
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  Speaker 1: Are you interested in starting your own media network? Well,
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  Speaker 1: coming up, you're gonna be listening to David McCourt and
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  Speaker 1: J C. Penny says it will start to sell major
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  Speaker 1: appliances online and expand its rollout of the category to
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  Speaker 1: nearly five hundred stores, or almost half its stores, this summer.
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  Speaker 1: This after testing it out in a number of trial markets.
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  Speaker 1: J C. Penny shares up two point eight percent to
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  Speaker 1: thirty two on Wall Street. Now will look at some
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  Speaker 1: of the other stories making news. Charlie, thank you from
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  Speaker 1: and the guy was impeached for Lyne. Speaking at a
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  Speaker 1: rally in Atlantic City today, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders
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  Speaker 1: criticized Trump. That is what we are seeing all over
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  Speaker 1: Mark Crumpton, Charlie, and we thank you and again recapping.
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  Speaker 1: The SMP five index is up three points again of
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  Speaker 1: two tenths of one percent. I'm Charlie Peloton. That's a
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  Speaker 1: Bloomberg business flash. You're listening to stock with Kathleen on
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  Speaker 1: Bluebird Radio. The telecommunications industry, it is not mundane in
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  Speaker 1: any sense of the word. With the combination of the
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  Speaker 1: Internet and cable, you have a world wide network that
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  Speaker 1: brings all of this information, whether it's on the satellite
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  Speaker 1: or cable or in the air. And to help make
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  Speaker 1: sense of all of this, we have David McCourt. He
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  Speaker 1: is the chairman and the chief executive of Granahan McCourt Capital,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to welcome him to the studio. David,
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  Speaker 1: thank you very much for being here. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: having me him. Now, before you came on, I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to alert you I was going to ask you about
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  Speaker 1: your past because I bet most people would not believe
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  Speaker 1: that you have a first, as I would call it
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  Speaker 1: in American business, and I'm wondering if you could tell
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  Speaker 1: people what this first was. Well, thanks him. I've been
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  Speaker 1: I've been in a media, telcom and technology business for
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  Speaker 1: a long long time and we have a couple first. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Luckily for us, we built the first competitive phone come
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  Speaker 1: in America, a company called Corporate Communication Network back in
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  Speaker 1: Boston that was in the eighties. I guess it in
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  Speaker 1: mid eighties. This is when there was just one phone
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  Speaker 1: company called A T and T. So there wasn't really um,
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  Speaker 1: there wasn't the baby bells back then, you know, there
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  Speaker 1: was just one phone company. So and we we came
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  Speaker 1: about this because I started out the construction business. In
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  Speaker 1: the construction business is a tough business because you first
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  Speaker 1: bid to get the work, and by definition, if ten
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  Speaker 1: different people are bidding and you have a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of you, probably it wasn't probably nine people were wrong.
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  Speaker 1: It was probably you were wrong, right. So you start
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  Speaker 1: off probably with the wrong price. Then you have to
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  Speaker 1: fight to do the work, and then you have to
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  Speaker 1: fight to get paid, and then when it's all over,
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  Speaker 1: get to startle. You have to start from scratch again.
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  Speaker 1: So um, one time, UM, we didn't get paid on
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  Speaker 1: a very very big job, and I told myself, if
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  Speaker 1: I have to get out of this jam, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: go build a business with the recurring revenue. So we
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  Speaker 1: built the first competitive phone company in America. And it
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  Speaker 1: was on a simple premise. Pim I observed that more
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  Speaker 1: computers were talking to computers and people were talking to people,
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  Speaker 1: So I said, why not build a purpose built network
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  Speaker 1: around computers talking to each other rather than try to
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  Speaker 1: retrofit a voice network. A T and T at that
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  Speaker 1: time was trying to push data through an old voice network.
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  Speaker 1: It was a network that Alexander Graham Bell would have recognized.
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  Speaker 1: It was just twisted copper pier and their version of
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  Speaker 1: an innovative solution was something called dial up Internet Access
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  Speaker 1: if you remember that, and that's a data product through
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  Speaker 1: a voice network. So we built a data product through
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  Speaker 1: a data network. And luckily for us, you could ride
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  Speaker 1: voice virtually free right through that network. So you could
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  Speaker 1: put video virtually three free right through that network. Did
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  Speaker 1: no matter what one is zero you wanted to put
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  Speaker 1: through it was just a laser blinking right, so you
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  Speaker 1: could put anything through it. So we built that company
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  Speaker 1: and then we merge it to a little into a
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  Speaker 1: little startup called MFS in Chicago that was owned by
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  Speaker 1: the PD Keyword Company, and then we went public and
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  Speaker 1: then we sold UM the whole thing for fourteen billion
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  Speaker 1: dollars to to World Calm. And then, luckily for me,
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  Speaker 1: I call it my World Calm stock. I bought a
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  Speaker 1: putt and sold the call the same day. UM, which
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  Speaker 1: at the time to find the Wall Street General called
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  Speaker 1: a exotic financial transaction. It wasn't really that exotic, but
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  Speaker 1: it seemed at the time. So yeah, that was a
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  Speaker 1: long time ago. Tell us what you're doing today, because
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  Speaker 1: I want to give you the time to do So
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  Speaker 1: what what what are you doing today? What are you
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  Speaker 1: working on? Well, the most recent thing is something that
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  Speaker 1: we we just announced today. Actually, we just announced a
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  Speaker 1: joint venture with King Abdullah Zaz Center for Science and Technology,
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  Speaker 1: which is the biggest center for science and technology in
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  Speaker 1: the world that's in READD in Saudi Arabia, and we're gonna,
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  Speaker 1: uh we fall in the joint venture to design and
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  Speaker 1: build very very sophisticated high to put satellite equipment UM
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  Speaker 1: for the entire world. We're going to design to manufacturer
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  Speaker 1: it in the region. I had bought three satellite companies
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  Speaker 1: in the past and put them together, and I observed
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  Speaker 1: a couple of things that one of my reduct was
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  Speaker 1: going to the Middle East, so why not be where
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  Speaker 1: where the product was going? And the number one costs
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  Speaker 1: of running those factories was power and a fuel is
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  Speaker 1: cheap over there. The number two costs was real estate.
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  Speaker 1: Real estate is cheap over there. Number three costs was
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  Speaker 1: something called SMC which the petroleum based product that's cheap
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  Speaker 1: over there. And fourth was logistics that was my next
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  Speaker 1: biggest cost. And six my product was going to the region.
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  Speaker 1: I said, why not partner up with someone UM and
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  Speaker 1: build something in the region and UM Saudi just recently
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  Speaker 1: announced the vision, which is they want to be UM
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  Speaker 1: less dependent on the rest of the world. That the
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  Speaker 1: third largest purchasure of defense equipment in the world, they
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  Speaker 1: don't have the defense industry. UM, We're gonna sell our
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  Speaker 1: products to the defense industry. It's all high tech calms
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  Speaker 1: equipment UM. So it fits in with their their initiative,
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  Speaker 1: fits in with what we like to do. Pay him
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  Speaker 1: everything we do. It has either we enter a market
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  Speaker 1: where it's a technological change, a regulatory change, or consumer
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  Speaker 1: behavioral change taking place, and we like that because UM
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  Speaker 1: there's always people richer and smarter and better capitalized in US.
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  Speaker 1: But we think that we we believe that we think
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  Speaker 1: clearly when there's a lot of change. So if this
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  Speaker 1: technological change or regulatory change or consumer behavioral change going on,
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  Speaker 1: that's what we like to be. And with this big
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  Speaker 1: Saddi twenty thirty initiative. That's a lot of change. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you very much for spending time and sharing this with us.
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  Speaker 1: David McCourt look forward to having you in the future
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  Speaker 1: of taking Stock. David McCord is the chairman of the
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  Speaker 1: chief executive of Granahan McCourt Capital. You're listening to taking Stock,
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