MTL - Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981-Chapter 964 Qualcomm Private Major Shareholder
Chapter 964 Qualcomm Private Major Shareholder
It is impossible to count the number of patents involved in a mobile phone in later generations. Sometimes you may accidentally infringe even if you don't have the technology of a copycat.
Therefore, when Qualcomm collected patent fees in later generations, it also acted as the umbrella for many mobile phone manufacturers.
Simply put, after paying the money, the society will keep you safe and sound. It is precisely because of this agreement that Qualcomm has not suffered fewer lawsuits, and almost every year, the state has fined Qualcomm with anti-monopoly money.
And every time it is a fine of hundreds of millions of dollars, if you change it to an ordinary company, I am afraid that with so many lawsuits, I would have gone crazy.
But Qualcomm doesn’t matter. In order to solve the lawsuit, Qualcomm has a professional team of lawyers to deal with these matters.
A penalty is a penalty, compared to what you earn, drizzle.
Yang Chen wants to enter the communication industry, and wants to occupy a part of the market in the future 3G4G network era, Qualcomm is the biggest opponent.
However, Yang Chen can't guarantee that the few people he grabbed from Bell Labs will definitely be able to pass Qualcomm in the future.
It is not difficult to see from Huawei that various countries attach great importance to the communications industry, especially when it comes to standards in the communications field, which will lead to national forces.
With the application of large-scale integrated circuits, microprocessors and digital signals becoming more mature, the communication industry has been widely used in various fields. At that time, the communication industry will become a strategic industry of various countries, and whether it is possible to master the industry standards requires national and international cooperation. The comprehensive wrestling between countries and alliances.
The losing party not only has to pay high patent fees to the other party, but also easily gets the industrial initiative of the other party.
I will not talk about the 1G era. There is nothing to argue about. It is mainly the 2G era that is going through, and the future 3G4G era. The reason why 2G is mentioned is that 2G still exists after 5G appears.
Compared with later generations, many people have found that sometimes our mobile phones are in use. If we encounter a place with poor signal, the signal network will continue to decline, jumping from 4G to 3G or even 2G.
Qualcomm's dominant era was in the 3G4G field. It missed the 2G era in the previous life. In the previous life, the 2G era was mastered by Europe.
When digital communication was just taking off, European countries realized that it was technically difficult to compete with the United States alone.
So, unwilling to lag behind the United States, the European Union established a special mobile expert group to be responsible for the research on communication standards throughout Europe, combining the communication strength of all European countries, so as to successfully surpass the United States in the 2G field.
The European GSM communication technology is the communication standard of the 2G era in Europe. Its core is time division multiple access technology. channel time.
However, the capacity of GSM is too small. When users are overloaded, more base stations must be established. Although the advantages of GSM are also outstanding, it is easy to deploy and uses a new digital signal encoding to replace the original analog signal. It also supports international roaming, provides The SIM card is convenient for users to store personal data when changing mobile phones, and can send text messages of more than 100 characters at the same time.
However, no matter how many advantages GSM has, it is difficult to cover up the shortcomings of small capacity, so in terms of choice, Yang Chen is still reluctant to use European GSM communication technology, because compared to Qualcomm's CDMA technology, the former is too far behind,
CDMA is more than ten times larger than GMS, and has better confidentiality, but Qualcomm's CDMA technology is not valued by the US market, so this later patent troll giant has not yet emerged.
For 3G4G mobile phones in the future, GSM in Europe is too small to carry huge traffic impact and will be eliminated. Therefore, in Yang Chen's eyes, GSM can only be regarded as a transitional product, and there is absolutely no way to compare it with CDMA.
Yang Chen does things with future generations thinking, and he habitually likes to make long-term plans. Since there are better ones that can be used, why use something that is destined to be eliminated soon.
That is not only a waste of time, but also money.
Yang Chen's original intention was to directly acquire Qualcomm, but several of Qualcomm's founders were not simple, and they were unwilling to be acquired. At the same time, the two sides did not agree on the cooperation of shares.
Therefore, Yang Chen could only use the talents he poached from Bell Labs to study slowly by himself, and at the same time let his subsidiary Hong Kong Telephone Company continue to expand the pager business.
The pager was originally developed by Bell Labs. The pager was researched 40 years ago. The pager sold by the Hong Kong Telephone Company is the latest product and is very popular in the market.
The Hong Kong pager market has now been completely monopolized by the Hong Kong Telephone Company under Yang Chen. Now the Hong Kong Telephone Company has expanded its business in Southeast Asia and the inland market.
However, the technical content of pagers is too low, and there is too much competition in the market outside Hong Kong and the inland. It is difficult for Hong Kong Telephone Company to open up the market. Whether it is a pager or a mobile phone, a signal tower is needed to send and receive signals. cell towers, then pagers and cell phones are a piece of junk.
Therefore, Yang Chen wanted to build his own 2G base station for a long time. Now, Qualcomm has given in. Obviously, the US operators don't pay attention to it, and Qualcomm has other thoughts.
In the past, Qualcomm relied on South Korean operators to take off. Qualcomm helped South Korea, which is relatively weak in mobile phone and communication technology, to establish a 2G mobile communication foundation. The South Korean government reciprocated, taking CDMA as the only 2G communication standard, and fully supporting Samsung and LG to commercialize CDMA technology. change.
Due to the strong promotion of the Korean government, the advantages of CDMA technology have also been expanded infinitely, and finally American operators began to pay attention to Qualcomm, which caused Qualcomm to soar to the sky.
In this life, Qualcomm wants to rely on the Yang Chen consortium to take off. Although the Hong Kong market is not as large as the Korean market, its economic strength should not be underestimated. The most important point is that our boss Yang is rich, and the business of its Hong Kong Telephone Company is not small. Although Hong Kong Telephone companies do not have a dominant position in Southeast Asia, but they also occupy a large market share.
After a series of acquisitions by Mr. Yang, the Heungkong Telephone Company has long been different from what it used to be. At the same time, Heungkong Telephone also has a ticket to enter the inland market, which means that a huge market with a population of more than one billion, let Heungkong Electric light up and down. .
"Thirty percent of the shares, the largest private shareholder."
Seeing this share certificate, a smile appeared on the corner of Yang Chen's mouth.
But that's not the point
Yang Chen turned over another contract. The content is very simple. In short, Qualcomm cooperated with Hong Kong Telephone Company to build a 2G base station. At the same time, in the future, they will still maintain the first partnership.
Obviously, the condition behind this contract is that Qualcomm is afraid that after Yang Chen has used them, they will kick them away.
However, when Yang Chen saw this, he couldn't help laughing again. Originally, he was worried that if he couldn't compete against Qualcomm, or to put it more bluntly, if the US government pulled down and restricted him, Xiangjiang Telephone Company What to do with 3G4G in the future.
It’s alright now, I’m drowsy, someone gave me a pillow, this kind of behavior must be rewarded with a small red flower to support it.
Yuan Tianfan took out another contract at this time
"Boss, here's another contract."
"Also?" Yang Chen was surprised again.
Yuan Tianfan said with a smile: "It was mentioned by the boss before that Qualcomm has agreed to limit Qualcomm's patent fees, and Qualcomm has also promised that the two companies can share patents in the future."
"let me see"
Yang Chen happily looked at the three contracts in hand, and he had a way out. In the field of communications in the future, even if his subsidiary, Xiangjiang Telephone Company, could not lead the way with Qualcomm, it would not be exploited by Qualcomm.
Think about how good Apple is in future generations. In the end, it is not necessary to obediently endure Qualcomm's exploitation. With these three contracts, this kind of thing will not fall on his head.
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(end of this chapter)
