Chapter 585: Huaxing's Strengths and Weaknesses
"Mr. Park, the technology of Huaxing in the 900M frequency band has been fully matured to meet the needs of commercial operation. Of course, there is a saying that words are not founded, but seeing is believing! We have cooperated with the Hong Kong Telecommunications Company to open a CDMA communication network that can cover the whole of Hong Kong.
Originally, we planned to invite 5,000 customers to experience communication during the trial operation period. However, according to the results just reported back by Hong Kong Telecom, the enthusiasm of users to participate in the use of digital mobile phones is very high. In just a few days, the number of users has reached 4,000, and HKT has asked us to increase the number of places in the entire trial operation to 10,000!"
Ko Lilun introduced CDMA technology to Park Chang-hyuk, and he was in a hurry in the past two days. On the one hand, Huaxing Company has just been listed, and everything is still a grass team; on the other hand, the CDMA network of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Telecommunications has just been put into operation, and many things, including technology, need to be coordinated by Huaxing Company.
However, no matter how busy Ke Lilun is, he still has to pretend to be calm in front of customers. He didn't expect to be able to negotiate a partnership in a single meeting, after all, digital mobile communication technology was just getting started, and KMT couldn't make a decision so easily.
Because once you make a choice, it means that you will have to invest heavily in infrastructure construction in the future. If you want to change the technical standard in the future, you need to change all the equipment, and this kind of loss is unbearable for any operator. So no matter what Chrillen says now, KMT will definitely wait and see.
The current job of Ke Lilun and Huaxing is to attract KMT to focus on its own CDMA technology. By no means possible, Chrillen hopes to work with KMT to build a pilot site for the CDMA network in Seoul. Carry out zero-distance promotion and display, even if all are invested by Huaxing Company.
Although the Oriental Research Institute announced that the CDMA technology has been successfully developed, in fact, it has not even had time to put the most fundamental technical specifications into words and put them on paper. If HKT was not a company controlled by the Oriental Group, it would not have been possible to put CDMA technology into commercial operation in such a hurry.
To some extent, HKT has actually taken a big risk to build momentum for CDMA technology. It is to hear that CDMA technology has begun commercial operation in Hong Kong. Operators from other countries, such as KMT, will come to Hong Kong to visit and negotiate with great interest.
South Korea's market is not huge, and the real giants are Japan, Europe and the United States. Among them, Europe has spent a lot of energy on its own GSM standard, and the Japanese have also come up with a PDC standard.
The United States, on the other hand, has a larger market size than Japan and Europe, but Motorola, the most powerful company in mobile communication technology, is pouring all its energy into the development of a new generation of analog mobile phones because of the success of its previous analog cellular technology. So much so that the research and development of digital mobile communication technology was suppressed.
According to the intelligence spied by the Oriental Commercial Company, Motorola's new generation of mobile phones is close to finalization. Compared with the Dynatac 8000x (that is, the big brother in everyone's mouth), the new product has made great progress in terms of volume and weight, and has been quite a prototype of a "mobile phone".
It was the fatal mistake that Motorola put down that gave Qualcomm another opportunity to rise in time and space. However, due to the appearance of Li Xuan, Qualcomm's way out has been blocked by him in advance. Over the past three years, more than 90% of all patent applications filed worldwide related to Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) have originated from the Oriental Institute. Li Xuan has built a thick technical barrier that cannot be overcome.
But the Eastern Group compared to Qualcomm. Again, there is a huge weakness. That is, it is not an American company, and it does not naturally have the support of the U.S. government. You have to know when Qualcomm in another time and space was just starting to grow. The strength of the company is actually very weak, and it is not capable of large-scale public relations at all.
However, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of the United States still quickly approved CDMA as one of the standards for the second generation of digital mobile communications in the United States. The main reason for this is that the European GSM standard has begun to land in the United States at that time, and the United States does not want to completely lose its voice in the second generation of digital mobile communication standards.
Now, digital mobile communication technology in the United States seems to be even more distant, and Huaxing's CDMA technology. It is simply impossible to get the FCC's recognition so easily with Qualcomm in another time and space. The best choice for Huaxing to break the ice is to cook raw rice and mature rice, first seize a large number of markets, and then urge the FCC to approve CDMA technical standards.
The Oriental Group happens to hold a 27.5% stake in MCI, the second largest telecommunications operator in the United States, through the way of assets and cash placement. It is the largest controlling shareholder of MCI. With the support of the Eastern Group, MCI's main strategic development direction for more than a year has been on the laying of optical fiber cables and the coverage of mobile communication networks.
If MCI can adopt CDMA technology, it will be able to quickly roll out this standard in the North American market. However, after all, the Eastern Group does not have an absolute controlling stake in MCI, and the management of MCI still has a relatively large right to operate independently.
Huaxing is negotiating with MCI to establish a CDMA technology test network in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C., respectively, to conduct preliminary technical testing and promotion and display. If Huaxing can first persuade telecom operators in other countries to cooperate with it at this time, it will certainly be a big touch for MCI and can greatly accelerate the negotiation process.
"President Ke, as the only mobile communication operator in South Korea, we KMT company choose which mobile communication standard is not completely decided by ourselves, and many times it depends on the government's intentions!
The Korean government has been actively promoting our enterprises and products to the world. If you can help in this regard, I am sure that the government will give priority to your company when making a choice!" He said with a deep meaning.
This year is the Olympic year, and for South Korea, the biggest achievement of the 24th Olympic Games, which just ended in Seoul, is not that South Korea has won 12 gold medals, but that a number of Korean brands such as Samsung and Hyundai have really been pushed to the world stage. Ke Lilun immediately understood the unspoken subtext of the other party, so he smiled and nodded.
"In addition to our CDMA technology. The most talked-about digital mobile technology today is the GSM standard in Europe. You must be well aware that Ericsson, Siemens, Philips and other companies have been competing for the core patents of the GSM standard for several years, and have even begun to resort to law.
If South Korea chooses the GSM standard in the future, the entire mobile communication equipment market will inevitably be completely carved up by the European communication giants! Japan's PD standard is similar, and it wants to extract a little bit of core technology from Japanese companies. It's definitely harder than climbing to the sky!
But if you choose CDMA technology, it is different, we are an open standard, and we are willing to open the door to Korean equipment manufacturers for relevant patent authorization under the premise of mutual benefit and win-win results!
If the Korean manufacturer can get the relevant authorization, it will immediately compete fairly with our Huaxing company on the same starting line, and everyone will speak according to their ability in the future!" Park Chang-hyuk on the opposite side could not hide a look of ecstasy on his face.
Although Huaxing will not give up the development in the field of mobile communication equipment, the company's focus in the short term. It will still give priority to the development of mobile phone products. After all, the technical threshold required for the development of communication equipment is higher, not to mention that there are a number of European, American and Japanese communication equipment giants such as Ericsson, Siemens, Motorola, and NEC.
These companies did not focus on CDMA technology before, but now the Oriental Research Institute has quietly completed the commercial development of digital mobile communication technology. If these companies don't pay attention to it, their olfactory acumen is simply poor.
If the CDMA standard wants to be popularized quickly, it is also inseparable from the support of a number of equipment manufacturers. The Eastern Group holds all the patents of the CDMA. It's not that I'm going to eat alone, but I'm just going to use it as a bargaining chip to get the biggest and most delicious piece of cake at the next mobile communication feast.
In another time and space, Qualcomm also holds the core patents of CDMA. However, it has been unable to convince the communication equipment giants to pay patent fees to them. So much so that in the entire 2G era, Qualcomm's CDMA standard has technical advantages and cannot compete with GSM. In the end, it was not until the beginning of the 3G era that Qualcomm ushered in the opportunity to turn over, and the fundamental reason for this is that Qualcomm's own strength is not strong enough.
In contrast, Huaxing is backed by the giant of the Eastern Bloc and is not afraid of any competitors. CDMA only needs to completely defeat the European GSM in terms of technology, and other manufacturers must not obediently pay protection fees.
After Curry Lillun revealed his tone, Director Park's interest in chatting suddenly increased. The next exchange between the two can be described as a very happy conversation. After sending the guests away, Chrillen was not available for a moment, and immediately called his subordinates for a meeting.
"On the marketing side, the most important task in the next few days is to serve the Korean gang well, and the negotiations with the American MCI company cannot be taken lightly. I have invited Mr. Walker, CEO of MCI, to visit Hong Kong, and it will be more touching to the Americans!"
Ke Lilun spoke a little dryly, unscrewed a bottle of mineral water and poured it, then turned his head and said to a few people in the technical department on the other side, "As for your technical department, the first task now is to assist Hong Kong Telecom in running the CDMA network smoothly. Secondly, Hong Kong Telecom asked for an additional 5,000 M-88 trial machines, and I have agreed. You have to coordinate with Xingguang Electronics to start production as soon as possible to ensure that our free trial activities will not be interrupted!
By the way, it's okay to say that the M-88 has been entrusted to Starlight Electronics for OEM. The design of the new mobile phone in the R&D department has already started. But in the area of communication equipment, we almost had to start from scratch!"
"Mr. Ke, the R&D center of the research institute in the Special Economic Zone has a special communication equipment R&D project department. Since the beginning of the year, the key personnel in the project department have been transferred to the Hong Kong headquarters. The complete set of equipment we provided to HKT, including base stations, antenna feeder systems, repeaters, etc., was completed by a team of these R&D personnel.
In addition, in order to support the joint venture with enterprises in Shanghai to produce DS series digital program-controlled telephone exchanges, the Institute has also set up a communication equipment research and development center in Shanghai. And this R&D center, together with the equity in the joint venture company, is also all assigned to our Huaxing company.
Therefore, Huaxing is actually very sufficient in terms of talent reserves, and the only thing that is lacking is that we have no experience in building our own factories and producing them before! We have coordinated the factory building in the Tin Shui Wai Electronics Industrial Park in Yuen Long, and are now ordering various professional equipment needed for the construction of the production line. Including the later worker training, I guarantee that it can be put into production within half a year!" Liu Wei said with bright eyes.
In the end, he chose to join Huaxing Company instead of staying at the Oriental Research Institute. And because he is very familiar with CDMA technology, and later participated in the development of specific equipment, and he has known Ke Lilun for a long time, so after he entered Huaxing Company, he was directly appointed by Ke Lilun to enter the technology department.
Because Huaxing Company has just been established and is facing a variety of complicated affairs, it has temporarily set up two functional departments: marketing department and technology department. After the human resources department finalizes the company's organizational structure, everyone's positions are bound to have a big adjustment.
But if you can have a beautiful performance before this, you will naturally have a lot of advantages in competing for new positions after you get on the right track in the later stage. Liu Wei doesn't usually talk much, but he actually knows very well in his heart when to show himself.
And Ke Lilun was obviously satisfied with Liu Wei's statement, and he didn't forget to smile and nod at him. Huaxing Company will definitely not have a large number of equipment orders in the short term. After all, a new technical standard must take a lot of effort to be recognized by telecom operators. He has set himself a goal of two years, and as long as he succeeds in rolling out the CDMA standard within two years, he will be considered a great success. (To be continued.) )