Chapter 517: Layout Mobile Communications

(PS: The first draft is uploaded first, and I haven't had time to revise it yet, and I'll revise it again after correcting the typos later!!I'm really embarrassed to rush so much every day!)

In addition to inspecting AOL and participating in the signing ceremony of MCI's stake, Li Xuan's trip to the United States also included other important mergers and acquisitions. At the same time as the establishment of AOL, the Oriental Group quietly established another company called CMC in the United States.

CMC's English spelling is called "CellularMobileCommunication", which translates into Chinese as "cellular mobile communication" company. As the name suggests, CMC is a mobile communications operator owned by the Oriental Group. In the past three years, CMC has built its own signal coverage network mainly in the southwestern region of the United States. The focus is on California and Texas, two of the nation's largest and second-largest states in terms of economy.

Li Xuan came to the United States this time and also signed a merger and acquisition agreement with CMC. The agreement was annexed by CMC as a mobile communications company called "CellularNetworkCorporate", which is mainly concentrated in Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware and other states on the east coast of the United States.

The communications industry is not a completely open and competitive industry and needs to be regulated by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission). If a telecom company wants to build its own basic signal network in a certain area, it needs to obtain a license authorized by the FCC and local governments.

Therefore, for CMC companies, if they want to grow themselves quickly, capital mergers and acquisitions are far more convenient than building in person. In fact, this time the cooperation between the Eastern Group and the MCI company. It also includes transactions in mobile communications services.

Although Oriental Group has successfully promoted to the largest shareholder of MCI through asset injection. However, MCI still has independent and independent management rights. The only move made by Oriental after becoming a majority shareholder was to appoint several directors to the board of directors of MCI. to ensure that their interests are not harmed by management.

So now MCI is not a company under the Oriental Group, and MCI has paid a part of the assets in exchange for all the assets of the Oriental Satellite Communications Company!

CMC acquired the entire mobile communications division of MCI for $150 million, thus gaining access to the mobile communications market in the northeastern United States, including New York, Pennsylvania and New England.

Since Motorola launched its first commercial Big Brother, the mobile communications business in the United States has begun to flourish, and there are more than 50 large and small mobile operators in the United States. Naturally, MCI sees great potential in this emerging market. As a result, it has been making forays into cellular communications for several years.

But the investment required to build a comprehensive mobile network across the United States is by no means a small amount. MCI also needs huge investment in long-distance telephone services and emerging network services. The current MCI company is not the second largest telecom operator in the United States ten years later, before it was acquired by Worldcom, and its strength is not enough to support the company to go hand in hand in multiple fields.

Therefore, the negotiation team of the Eastern Group successfully persuaded the strong man of MCI to break his wrist and sell the mobile communication division to CMC, a subsidiary of the Eastern Group, in exchange for cash, so as to concentrate on the layout of the telephone and Internet business.

Mobile communications are still in the analog cellular era. There are still many technical shortcomings. Even if the management of MCI believes that the future potential of the mobile communication field is great, it is absolutely impossible to know that the arrival of the Internet era will have a great impact on the fixed telephone business. And twenty years later on smartphones. As for the telephone business, which MCI is now preparing to compete for from AT&T, it has fallen to the point where it is beginning to be abandoned by many families!

Mobile communication should be regarded as one of Li Xuan's most important areas, although twenty years later, the domestic mobile phone manufacturer. The production of a mobile phone will also sell for a cabbage price, but this does not mean that this industry is really not profitable.

Apple in another time and space. Immediately leaning on an iPhone, the highest market value once reached $623.5 billion. Become the largest company by market capitalization ever. And Qualcomm also relies on its monopoly in CDMA technology to suck blood from global mobile phone manufacturers!

The hustle and bustle of the world is all for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit! A field with a huge market cannot be without value! Those companies that can't make money are just because they are not strong enough and have no core competitiveness in this industry!

In the computer industry that has already begun to rise, Li Xuan has already completed the preliminary layout! And his confidence is not the Aikang Company, which has developed into the world's largest computer manufacturer, but the ERM architecture processor developed by the Oriental Research Institute and the East series operating system of the Oriental System Software Company.

In the field of mobile communications, Li Xuan also has a lot of ambitions! Of course, this kind of brick-sized analog big brother on the market is not considered by Li Xuan to be the beginning of the mobile phone era. Only the small but powerful digital phone is the beginning of a new era.

In fact, the Oriental Research Institute has developed several prototypes based on CDMA technology, and is in the process of final commercial PR. According to the timetable set by the Oriental Research Institute internally, the first digital mobile phone that can be mass-produced will be available within two years!

The Eastern Group has accelerated the layout of the mobile communications market in the United States in preparation for the upcoming digital mobile era. Motorola's big brother opened the curtain of the global mobile communication era. However, in the transition from the 1G analog cell era to the 2G digital era, the United States has been preempted by Europe.

Throughout the 2G era, the GSM standard developed by Europeans has firmly dominated the global mobile communications market. The biggest reason for this is that the United States is the leader in the field of mobile communications, Motorola is overly addicted to its own analog communication technology and has failed to keep up with the pace of transformation and upgrading. And this actually gave Li Xuan a chance to fish in troubled waters!

If Motorola does not make a mistake with its heritage in the American market. It will be difficult for the Eastern Bloc to defeat it in the away game! For example, in the current analog mobile communications market in North America, the mobile telecommunications operators controlled by Motorola Inc. It can even compete with established telecom operators such as AT&T!

Motorola Company originally promoted its Big Brother products and personally invested a lot of money in infrastructure construction! Not long ago, Mr. Calvin, the leader of Motorola, put forward a very magnificent "Iridium Project."

Iridium has 77 electrons surrounding the nucleus, and the so-called "Iridium Project" is to launch 77 low-orbit satellites to form a global satellite signal transmission network. There are more than 3,000 channels on each satellite, and you can even connect directly to mobile phones on the ground!

This is the rhythm of turning every step of the mobile phone into a satellite phone, you must know that the satellite phone is still very expensive even after twenty or thirty years, which shows how unreliable Motorola's "Iridium Project" is!

Of course. Although Motorola, the hegemon in the field of mobile communications in the United States, is not doing its job, the research and development of digital mobile phone standards in the United States has not stopped. But as the saying goes, there are no tigers and monkeys in the mountains to call the king, and the technical standards of digital mobile phones in the United States in another time and space are not none, but too many!

Three standards appeared at once, among which in addition to the CDMA technology developed by Qualcomm, there are two other standards that use TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) technology like the GSM technology in Europe. The three standards launched fierce competition in order to compete for the market, but the GSM standards of Europeans took advantage of the situation and seized a lot of market share!

What kind of standard standard to choose for mobile phones is actually not chosen by ordinary users themselves. It is up to the mobile operators to decide! This is also the reason why the Eastern Group established CMC to enter the basic mobile operation market in the United States! If a foreign company like the Eastern Group wants to promote its own technical standards in the United States, it will undoubtedly be greatly difficult!

The biggest advantage of the Eastern Bloc right now is time. The Oriental Institute invested heavily in the field of mobile communications a few years ago. At the beginning, Li Xuan pointed out the principle of CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) technology for the relevant teams, although he does not have a lot of professional accumulation in this field as in the field of chip architecture, but a basic principle and a correct idea. It is enough for relevant researchers to avoid a lot of detours!

Most of the difficulties of CDMA technology have actually been overcome by the Oriental Research Institute. The final refinement of the entire standard is now being made. After all, there is still a big gap between the realization of the laboratory and the commercial operation of politics!

The European Commission for Posts and Telecommunications established the GSM Group as early as 1982. If history does not deflect, the full standard for GSM technology will be submitted to the European Telecommunications Standards Agency two years later, in 198-9. Then, in 1991, Ericsson set up the first commercial GSM mobile communication network in Finland!

The CDMA technical standard of the Oriental Research Institute should also be developed in 198-9. Compared with the time division multiple access technology used in GSM, CDMA (code division multiple access) technology is more advanced. This is also the fundamental reason why Qualcomm in another time and space can finally rise in the 3G era.

According to Li Xuan's plan, as soon as CDMA technology comes out, Hong Kong Telephone Company will set up the world's first CDMA mobile operation network in Hong Kong, which will also be a demonstration case of CDMA technology promotion to the outside world!

However, Hong Kong's global influence is still too weak, and it is difficult for you to convince the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) to accept the CDMA technical standard just because the CDMA technology has been successful in Hong Kong. CDMA technology also needs to have an American operator to cooperate with it to show its strong strength, which is the purpose of the establishment of CMC by Oriental Group!

As long as the CDMA can demonstrate to U.S. mobile operators that it can replace analog cellular technology, it will be much easier for the Eastern Bloc to convince the FCC to accept it.

Moreover, Li Xuan can also make a time difference, because according to the intelligence analysis that the Eastern Bloc has been collecting, several companies in the United States that are developing TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) technology are developing much slower research and development than the European GSM standard. The GSM standard was only submitted in 1989, and similar standards for American companies were at least two or three years late.

Most of the time, everyone's judgment on the trend of science and technology is similar, not to mention that many multinational technology companies have special departments to conduct real-time patent searches. Even if you are negligent in some areas, you can make strategic adjustments and catch up by analyzing the patents submitted by competitors!

For example, Motorola, which has just proposed the "Iridium Project," is not blind to the trend of digital mobile phones replacing analog mobile phones! Its biggest mistake is actually in estimating the time required for technological upgrades. When digital phones first came out, the call quality was even inferior to analog phones, which made Motorola feel like it had time to take it in stride.

After all, in the era of analog cells, where it has a complete monopoly, Motorola can maximize its own profits. As a last resort, it does not want to see digital phones replace analog phones, which deprives it of the incentive to focus on digital mobile technology.

Unexpectedly, the speed of digital mobile phone technology progress far exceeded Motorola's expectations. As a result, Motorola was caught off guard, and Ericsson, Nokia in Europe, and even Sony, Sharp, Samsung and other companies in Asia began to catch up!

Therefore, in the field of technology research and development, rhythm is also very important! In many cases, failing to keep up with the rhythm means being suppressed or even directly issued! In Li Xuan's plan, when the digital mobility standards of American companies begin to mature, the CDMA standards of the Eastern Group have already begun to be commercialized.

A similar situation occurred in another time and space, when the relevant companies in the United States were still desperately trying to persuade the FCC to turn their own standards into a unified standard in the United States, GSM technology has won the support of American mobile operators and began to be put into commercial use!

With the acquisition of CNC (Cellular Networking) and MCI's mobile communications division, CMC has become the 7th largest mobile operator in the United States. It's just that the mobile communications market in 1987 was only a small point compared to the huge fixed telephone market!

CMC will continue to make acquisitions to become one of the top three in the mobile communications field in the United States. The stronger CMC is, the easier it will be to promote the CDMA technology in the U.S. market in the future.

Li Xuan stayed in the United States for a week, flying two times from the West Coast to the East Coast, before he could deal with these things that would play a crucial role in the future development of the Eastern Bloc!

By the time he flew out of the United States on his own plane, the United States had already begun to enter the year-end promotion season, and Thanksgiving was just around the corner! )