Once upon a time under the globe in Flushing Meadows Park one of the predecessor companies wowed crowds at the 1964 Worlds Fair with their World of Tomorrow in communications.
Another predecessor company underwrote National Geographic and many public television science shows.
But a telephone head is a telephone head and can never see the trees for the forest or how walkie talkie technology and abusing the interlata routing systems could lead to wireless & MCI. Or how a company that produced Sylvania monitors and hardware and owned a low orbit satellite company and no long distance restrictions, could pass off the entire Internet birth & growth off as "the Internet is just a passing fancy" in 1992.
So why would we be surprised that the smart bankers of Backrock would push a failed accountant to CEO of a failed wireless equipment parts company onto the biggest US Wireless and Fiberoptic company as a new Chief Technology Officer and soon to be CEO with an old bad idea?
5G and the fraudulent 8 currencies were outed as a fraud and unlimited capital consumer the minute the Cables & T Mobile teased with their new "10Gs"
While Hans fantasized with 5G and DEI, T Mobile got together with Starlink.