Chapter 31
RADNTEL
There was no Stream, no new advertising, or premium membership revenue for the RadNtel Corporation. The banks remained closed, and the RadNtel managers could not access funds for payroll. The leadership team that remained at the company laid off thousands of workers. What remained in the Ventura headquarters complex was a skeleton crew working feverishly without the promise of being paid to restore the RadNtel network.
Generators run by diesel were powering the sections of the building that related to the network. A few staff members who collected cars got their old gasoline-powered classics up and running, and drove to work. Illegal to use on the road, those cars were soaring in value.
Then everything at RadNtel changed. An executive found a binder on Kip’s desk. It
