Chapter 437: Come on, hurt each other
Wu Tao's feeling was not wrong.
After the meal, when the two sides officially began to negotiate, Frank did not have much enthusiasm on his face, and he looked businesslike.
"We welcome developing countries like Huaxia to join our ETSI Association. As long as your domestic companies and operators pay their dues according to the standards specified by the association, they can jointly participate in and develop the GSM standard ......"
This is really treating the Chinese side as a big wrong.
Gu Xueli naturally couldn't let it, and when he mentioned the GSM standard in the report he submitted to the top, he didn't include this so-called additional membership cost.
At first, Wu Tao didn't speak, and he deliberately kept a low profile, and no one knew his identity as an important talker.
Unexpectedly, Frank looked like a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water, and resolutely refused to give in. In his opinion, anyway, if your Huaxia expert group came to us in a hurry, it would naturally have to follow our requirements.
Gu Xueli gave Wu Tao a look, he was responsible for singing red face, so naturally someone should be responsible for singing white face.
As soon as Wu Tao spoke, Frank's heart burst out.
"If I'm not mistaken, Mr. Frank is from Alcatel Telecommunications, right?
Frank fixed his mind and said: "Alcatel Telecom is one of the initiators of the ETSI Association, and it does not need to pay membership dues according to the standard. ”
"Oh~" Wu Tao said for a long time: "Does Mr. Frank think that Huaxia has no choice but to adopt the GSM standard? As far as I know, South Korea and the United States also have a telecommunications standard called CDMA, and it is technically more advanced and reliable than your GSM standard. ”
“...... Frankly speaking, we are sincerely involved in the promotion and application of GSM standards. If the ESTI Association has always had this attitude, then why don't we consider the CDMA standard?"
“...... It just so happened that when I was in Hannover, Germany, the other day, I just had a conversation with a representative of Qualcomm. ”
As soon as these words were thrown out, the Frenchman Frank had to think about it.
However, Isabella, as a stenographer, looked at Wu Tao's beautiful eyes after writing.
This Chinese person is really interesting, and his gestures are very manly, which is heartwarming.
After Wu Tao finished singing with a white face, Gu Xueli continued to sing with a red face: "Mr. Frank, in fact, we didn't want to join ETSI this time, because the GSM standard is becoming more and more mature, and our participation will not play a big role in the improvement of technical standards. ”
“...... However, the GSM standard will eventually develop the next generation of mobile communication standards in the future, and everyone in this generation of standards is on the same starting line. ”
At this point, Frank was already moved several times.
Who said that Huaxia is poor and white, knows nothing about mobile communication technology, and is a big wrongdoer, this is simply nonsense!
People not only know the CDMA standard, the competitor of the GSM standard, but also know the next generation of mobile communication technology standards.
In fact, in Europe, the next generation of mobile communication technology standards has only just been put on the agenda and has not yet been made public.
In this case, Huaxia's expert group can know that it is obvious that it has already accumulated in this technical direction.
"Okay, okay...... We can revisit that...... "Frank finally relented.
After some negotiations, Frank finally agreed to share the GSM technical standard with Huaxia and did not need to pay the so-called membership fee.
Except, of course, for technical training.
For the establishment of the next generation mobile communication technology standards organization, the two sides have also reached a preliminary cooperation intention.
So far, it seems, everything is going well.
It wasn't until Frank's topic finally came to the head of Yuanqi Technology that the two sides had a disagreement again.
"As a mobile phone manufacturer, Yuanqi Technology needs to purchase GSM patent licenses in mobile phone chips, which is the cost of GSM patents of various manufacturers, and has nothing to do with GSM standards. ”
Wu Tao couldn't help laughing, if he did this, what was the difference between him and Qualcomm, an old patent rascal, it was nothing more than fifty steps and a hundred steps.
In fact, in the past life, domestic enterprises would buy licenses from Western GSM patent giants every year to eliminate the risk of intellectual property infringement of export products.
And this point is also unavoidable for Yuanqi Technology.
After all, now the overseas expansion plan of Lotus mobile phone is already on the bow and has to be sent.
For this reason, it is somewhat reluctant to come up with an extra sum of money, whether it can afford it or not.
"With all due respect, Mr. Frank. I don't know if that's what you mean, or if that's what Nokia or Ericsson mean. ”
“...... Anyway, I can theoretically pay this money. But I also have two requirements, first, I hope that the other party will provide a detailed list of basic patents to avoid repeated payment of certain basic patents;
“...... On the other hand, Yuanqi Technology will gradually form its own patent system. In the future, if we encounter a similar situation, does it mean that Yuanqi Technology can also collect patent royalties from large companies such as Nokia and Ericsson?"
Wu Tao's successive questions had a momentum of 'come, hurt each other'.
Seeing that Gu Xueli was stunned, he didn't expect Wu Tao to have such a strong side in foreign negotiations.
As for the eyes of the members of the expert group, they are also a little puzzled.
In their opinion, it is a matter of course to use patents and pay patent fees, so why did Yuanqi Technology pick and search on this matter?
In fact, Wu Tao also had the mentality of having nothing and giving it a try.
Even if this bite of meat is destined to be torn off by Western giant manufacturers, Wu Tao has to make them feel that the bite is very laborious.
Otherwise, if it goes too well, it is easy to give the other party the impression that "this money is easy to loot".
In this case, it will be difficult to recycle in the future.
What's more, the list of basic patents for designing GSM standards is inherently a mess among the major giants.
It's not easy to provide a list of foundations that are truly clear.
Frank didn't expect it either, he originally thought that this issue should be a matter of course. But I didn't expect that the Chinese people were planning to pull out a dime at all.
Who told himself that the Chinese people are all wronged? This is an iron rooster at all!
"And what do you say you should do?" Frank was also at a loss.
Wu Tao sat up straight and said eloquently: "In my opinion, as a promoter of the GSM standard, ETSI had better not encourage this kind of patent war. Because of this, it will only have a negative impact on the promotion and application of GSM standards. ”
“...... Taking a step back, even if patent wars cannot be avoided, they should be discussed on a case-by-case basis with the specific issues involving the company, and ETSI should take the initiative to reconcile this contradiction. ”
Looking at Wu Tao's sworn appearance, Frank was also speechless.
That's true, but I always feel that something is wrong......