Saturday, March 1, 2008

technology gap; Abalos' achilles' heel

The rapid development of technology played its part in thwarting the corrupt deal involving ZTE and the proposed NTN.

Assuming that Lozada is telling the truth. Abalos may have managed to moderate his own greed if he had a working knowledge of the technology they were buying.

Abalos was allegedly asking for more than a hundred million dollars in kickbacks from a project involving a network. With all the advancements in technology, things have gotten quite cheap. His request was just way too large according to Lozada that it will be too obvious. Had he been more familiar with recent trends in related technologies, he may have gotten away with another bucketload of greenbacks. But he didn't. His ignorance in the subject matter did him in.

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