Chapter 354: Qualcomm Comes

For Qualcomm, many people will naturally think of "CDMA" when they hear this name, they will think of "international standards", and they will also think of words such as "first-class enterprise", "success" and "tall", in fact, the company was founded by a few people's heads at the beginning of the company was not very remarkable, and like other enterprises, its internal chaos at the beginning, especially after the company has a little benefit, the senior management is intrigued, fighting for power. What many executives think about the most is how to raise the company's stock price to be cashed into cash, and how to use the cash to enjoy or set up another company.

It's just that this company has a deep relationship with the US government, except for some technical experts, many shareholders are senior officials who have retired from the US government, such as a vice president is the original US national security adviser, and a vice president is even the former deputy secretary of state.

It is precisely because of this that Qualcomm has received strong support from the US government, and the CDMA technology they launched was not mature at the beginning, but under the strong promotion of the US government, it was put into use in the US communications market, becoming the main force to compete with the GS-M digital mobile system launched in Europe, and slowly expanding to other countries (including Huaxia).

In the last life, one of the difficult problems encountered by Huaxia during the customs entry negotiations was whether to accept the US government's forced demand that China accept Qualcomm's CDMA. Compared with the mature GS-M system in Europe, Huaxia is of course unwilling to accept this standard that appeared later, and Qualcomm was not as united as European companies at that time, so well prepared, especially in terms of hardware support and after-sales service, it is not comparable with Europe.

However, the U.S. government has taken the introduction of CDMA technology into Huaxia as a condition for allowing Huaxia to re-enter customs, and has taken into account that only European GS-M will be allowed to enter China. It is bound to allow European telecommunications companies to form a monopoly in China, which is not conducive to commercial negotiations, and to put it bluntly, it is not conducive to price reduction.

In addition, the United States later launched an upgraded version of the CDMA of the IS-95, and the CDMA technology of the lower version has been greatly improved. In the end, it was decided to set up a company called the Great Wall Company to introduce and operate CDMA on a small scale, and with the further deepening of the customs negotiations, the state later simply set up a company called "Unicomm" to introduce and operate CDMA, and signed a $20 billion equipment contract with Qualcomm around 1999.

At that time, because the state did not believe Qualcomm, the relevant auxiliary clauses were also signed in the signing of this contract, including four main articles:

First, based on the fact that Huaxia has already begun to build the GS-M digital mobile network, the high-speed company must do its best to develop and design a chip that can support CDMA/GS-M dual-mode mobile phones. And agreed to cooperate with suitable Chinese companies to develop and produce such chips.

The original intention of the state to sign this article is to let domestic users rest assured that in case the CDMA network does not work, users will be fine if they buy a mobile phone, it will not be wasted, and it can be transferred to the GS-M system at any time.

The second is that Qualcomm will actively look for suitable companies in China to produce CDMA chips for Qualcomm, and will actively consider investing in the chip production industry in China.

The third is that Qualcomm will continue to promise to provide the world's most favorable CDMA chips to Chinese manufacturers.

The fourth is that Qualcomm agrees to cooperate with licensed Huaxia manufacturers to produce CDMA chips in China.

At first glance, these agreements were very beneficial to Huaxia, although they cost $20 billion (and later as the network rolled out. The introduction of equipment is naturally far more than 20 billion US dollars), but it helps Huaxia to enter the customs. It will help to establish a domestic chip production enterprise, and in general, it will not suffer.

However, the kind-hearted Chinese people were still tricked by Qualcomm's backtracking, and the four terms signed except for the first one they did launch a dual-mode mobile phone chip, the other signed terms were signed, and they did not implement them at all.

For example, their Qualcomm promise to "provide the world's best price CDMA chips to Chinese manufacturers" is not binding at all. Not to mention execution. Because Qualcomm has overlord secrecy regulations, the Chinese people have no way of knowing what price Gao General will provide CDMA chips to other companies in the world, and the so-called "world's best price" is only known to the devil.

The so-called investment in Huaxia's chip production industry was also in June 2003, Qualcomm felt that the Huaxia communication equipment market was far more huge than they imagined, and they were able to make profits in Huaxia that they could not even imagine. Only then did it announce that US$100 million would be allocated to fund start-ups in China that are engaged in the development and commercialization of CDMA products, applications and services. But no one knows when the $100 million will be cashed in, and only three small businesses have received some investment three years later.

In fact, the implementation of the first Qualcomm company is not much good for domestic consumers, dual-mode mobile phones are basically just gimmicks, few consumers are willing to pay monthly fees to the two communications, and they rarely go to mobile or telecom companies to buy numbers after they buy numbers in "Unicom" companies.

It is based on Jiang Xinwei's understanding of Qualcomm in his previous life that he doesn't think that there is anything good about this company taking the initiative to investigate, and it is likely that the weasel is giving the chicken a New Year's greeting.

However, Jiang Xinwei could not refuse the other party's kindness, after all, the foreigner Yokbosh came with the leadership of the State Planning Commission.

Jiang Xinwei is not afraid of a deputy director, even if he belongs to the most powerful department, but Jiang Xinwei is worried that this official represents the attitude of the country, and is worried that he has brought the will of the state boss, in case the country wants to deliberately befriend Qualcomm for the sake of customs negotiations, Jiang Xinwei does not want to embarrass the state boss by refusing.

What's more, Jiang Xinwei also wants to use the state as a backing to negotiate with Qualcomm to see if he can get some benefits from it. Besides, many of the technical patents related to digital mobile communications that Jiang Xinwei is applying for now are plagiarized from the patents applied for by Qualcomm in his previous life, but he just asked him, a traverser, to apply in advance, and he also wants to understand what new ideas he will have after blocking their patent road, while making new countermeasures by himself.

Because it was the first time they met, both sides were getting to know each other, so York Bosh didn't stay at Feixun Technology for long, drank a few cups of coffee with several technicians from Feixun Technology, asked each other a few questions, and then left on the grounds that he still had to inspect other companies.

However, the deputy director of the Planning Commission, who had accompanied Yorkbosh, stayed behind under the pretext of staying on the pretext.

Jiang Xinwei also immediately invited the official into his office.

The deputy director's name is Zheng Zitong, and as soon as he sat down, he said straight to the point: "Mr. Jiang, we hope that Feixun Technology Company can have a comprehensive cooperation with this Qualcomm company. ”

Jiang Xinwei's heart moved, and asked, "Because of the customs negotiation?"

Zheng Zitong was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect Jiang Xinwei to see the essence at once, but thinking of Jiang Xinwei's ability and gaze, he was immediately relieved, nodded, and lowered his head and took out a note with a bright red seal from the bag in his hand, and said: "In addition to serving as deputy director of the State Planning Commission, I also have another position. …… I am a member of the State Council's entry negotiation team, and this is a letter of introduction from my superiors. ”

Jiang Xinxu took the letter of introduction and looked at it, and said, "What kind of cooperation is it?" But he said again, "...... As long as it does not damage the interests of our Feixun technology company, or the loss of profits is not large, we can consider it. ”

Zheng Zitong smiled bitterly and said, "At present, we don't know if it will damage the interests of your company, and we can only know when you two companies negotiate." As for me personally, of course, I hope you have a win-win situation, but this involves a lot of political and economic issues, not a simple sentence, or whether your company's interests are damaged or benefited can be decided whether to cooperate or not, we hope that Jiang can always start from the overall situation. Of course, if your company really makes great sacrifices for the country, we will try to make up for your losses. ”

Jiang Xinwei waved his hand and said: "Don't make up for it for the time being, what I want to say is that whether it is their Qualcomm Company or our Feixun Technology Company, both are companies, and all cooperation must be in accordance with the way the company cooperates.

I know the country's difficulties, and now you are anxious to completely break the embargo of Western countries, and you are eager to start the entry negotiations that were halted two years ago, but I think the role that our small company has achieved in this is limited, and although Qualcomm has a good relationship with the US government, they also have limited influence on the current policies of the United States and Western countries.

Not to mention that it is impossible for us to make unprincipled concessions to cater to them, even if we do that, the benefits to the country will be very small, so I would like to ask Director Zheng to tell the relevant leaders: We will negotiate according to the other party's asking price, and will make necessary compromises on the relevant conditions in accordance with the company's operating rules, but please do not force us to be forced by the superiors. ”

Zheng Zitong smiled: "Mr. Jiang is too worried. Not to mention that your Feixun Technology Company is a key enterprise supported by the state, there are not many such high-tech enterprises in our country, and there are few enterprises that can earn foreign exchange from abroad like you. …… Actually, I know what Mr. Jiang is worried about, so I ask you to rest assured, I am only communicating with you privately, and the relevant news will not be disclosed to Qualcomm, and it is impossible for them to suppress you with this point. ”

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