Chapter 0492 - Landmines in the PC Industry
When the smoke of the battle between Qinhe and Jardine Matheson dissipated last year, Heung Kong Telephone became one of the many trophies, and then carried out gimmicky promotions and promotions to congratulate the new owner.
The real purpose of this dazzling series of market operations is nothing more than to further expand the installed capacity.
Although the number of fixed network lines of Heung Kong Telephone has exceeded 2 million, and the local telephone business can be franchised until 1995, Tang Huan will not allow it to rest on its laurels with the mentality of a frog at the bottom of the well.
As a result, Heung Kong Telephone quickly began to replace a large number of its own design and more advanced telecommunications exchanges, and launched caller ID, digital fax, bank inquiry, pager, dial-up Internet and other services.
Just this year, Heung Kong Telephone set up a wholly-owned subsidiary, Communication Services Limited, or CSL, to launch mobile phone services.
However, Tang Huan was still not satisfied, because the territory of the Heung Kong telecommunications industry in his hands was incomplete, the business of Heung Kong Telephone was limited to local telephones, and the license for external communications belonged to Dadong Telegraph Company Heung Kong Co., Ltd., and the franchise was renewed in 1981 until 2006.
In other words, Tang Huan's layout was cut off by the Dadong Telegraph Bureau, which made him feel like a fish in his throat, and he moved his mind to move it away, and the opportunity was in front of him.
One of the major economic reforms of the Thatcher government in Britain was the privatization of the original state-owned enterprises.
For individuals with deep pockets, this is basically a good opportunity to get a piece of the cake. After all, these industries have an important monopoly position in the national economic system, and they will always make a lot of money when they buy and sell. The female ship king Christina made frequent moves under Tang Huan's guidance.
Founded in 1860, Dadong Telegraph Office is a veteran British telecommunications company, in the era of the empire, with the colonial expansion, in the British overseas staking a lot of business, including Xiangjiang, Haojiang, the Caribbean and so on.
However, it is precisely because most of the business of the Great Eastern Telegraph Company is not in the United Kingdom that the political resistance to its privatization is very low. It became one of the first companies to be privatized, and the British government took the last 51 percent of its shares this year. They were all released.
Through Christina's investment, Tang Huan has actually obtained the approval of the Hong Kong government.
Tang Huan's request to Ma Shimin is that before the end of the year. Completed the integration of Heung Kong Telephone and Dadong Telegraph Office Heung Kong Limited. Establishment of a new company called Hong Kong Telecom, which includes all telecommunications businesses.
In addition, Dadong Telegraph Company Xiangjiang Co., Ltd. and the original parent company, Dadong Telegraph Co., Ltd., had the same problem, that is, the management salary was inflated, and Tang Huan was very dissatisfied with this.
Ma Shimin smiled and promised, "We definitely don't raise idlers, and I will adjust it when the time comes." β
Tang Huan bowed slightly, and continued to ask: "How are the preparations for the first Xiangjiang International Marathon sponsored by Xiangjiang Phone?" β
"Everything went well. The Hong Kong government is very supportive, and it will wait until the official event at the end of the year. It is not a problem to reach 10,000 people in the scale of the event. Ma Shimin replied confidently.
"Don't just focus on how to build momentum at the macro level, the details of this kind of activity cannot be ignored, and the distance is tens of kilometers. Even qualified applicants may not be able to run all of them, so it is necessary to arrange more medical teams to avoid tragedy and eventually make the event tasteless. Tang Huan solemnly admonished.
"Mr. Tang, although rest assured, I will make the plan more detailed and implement it in more detail." Ma Shimin once again assured.
At this time, Ang Lee trotted over to inform, "Mr. Tang, it's all ready to start filming." β
Tang Huan, who nodded, waved his hand to Ma Shimin, who was leaving, and then walked to the crew.
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The content of this scene is Tang Huan, who is a bodyguard, accompanying Deng Lijun to the shopping mall.
As for the most troublesome concert in Xiangjiang's scenes, it has been completed.
With a "card", Xu Anhua, who had a hearty personality, shouted: "Tang Sheng, you play a non-professional bodyguard, not the emperor of the Ninety-Five Supreme, take your aura." β
Deng Lijun teased: "You forgot again, this is acting, and there is no need to put on the score of the big boss." β
"I'm sorry." Tang Huan hurriedly apologized and prepared to start over.
βActionγβ After Chen Kexin shouted, he unconsciously glanced at Xu Anhua with admiration.
Since the start of construction, the female director has always behaved professionally, and even if she dispatches a super-rich man like Tang Huan, she has never been timid.
Of course, Tang Huan also showed a convincing bearing and cooperated with the crew's work very well.
And what makes all the staff happy is that Tang Huan, an outsider, has not made low-level mistakes such as stepping out of the camera, and he has behaved very orderly, which is really a gratifying thing, and I don't know if he borrowed the light of the teaching credit of the crew of "Fang Shiyu" last year.
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When he returned to his residence in the evening, Tang Huan saw Louis. Gerstner's report.
Regarding the subordinates' measures to suppress VisiOn, Tang Huan just smiled slightly, and said in his heart that even if PARC is not successful, it is also the inventor of the graphical user interface, and companies like VisiCorp are panicking to launch immature graphical user interface systems, is it possible to snatch this name over?
However, when Tang Huan read the following content about Seeq, he immediately gasped and his face became serious.
"This is really talent, and it has laid a landmine for the personal computer industry." Tang Huan muttered, stood up, and paced back and forth in thought.
Seeq is a semiconductor company invested by Tang Huan, also based in Silicon Valley, that manufactures EEPROM that has patent disputes with Intel.
The main discipline of Louis. When Guo Shi Na inspected Seeq, he found that its senior management made extra money by raising business trip expenses by a large amount of money privately, and the technology research and development project was chaotic.
Louis. Gerstner wanted to have a seizure on the spot, but in the end he endured it. Campbell's team made a preliminary technical achievement - designing a chipset containing only five chips, which could provide functions that could replace the 63 chips on the IBM-PC motherboard.
On the report, Louis. Gerstner bluntly said that he was extremely shocked at the time, and was worried that if these guys were swept out of the house immediately, the IBM-PC camp might usher in an unstoppable frenzy of compatible machines, and then change the market opposition pattern of the two standards of Fangyuan personal computer and IBM-PC. (To be continued......)