Chapter 1120 Grey Market Agreement
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After a simple dinner in Jianye at night, Zhang Ke rushed to Jinshan overnight. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Since there was not much delay in Jianye, he rushed to the outskirts of Jinshan City at nine o'clock.
At night, the water of the Yuma River is like black and bright silk, shining and shining with a mysterious luster, and the car quietly drives into the quiet manor at night.
Jinshan Lake burst its embankment, the construction of Jinshan New Town and New Industrial Zone was seriously frustrated, and Qinyuan has always maintained its original scale without rushing to expand, just like a pearl embedded in the suburbs of Jinshan City. If Zhang Ke wants to meet any guests in Jinshan, he will choose to be in Qinyuan; However, during this period of time, the Jinshan factory project of Zhongjing Microchip was officially approved, and there were more people coming and going to Jinshan, and Qinyuan was also lively.
At night, Liu Zhicheng, president of Zhongjing Microchip, and Zhang Yaping, president of the components department, all live in Qinyuan, Zhang Ke got out of the car, and saw that in addition to Liu Zhicheng and Zhang Yaping in the parking lot, Ding Wenxiang, the boss of Xinyuan Electric, was also there, his pretty and charming niece Ding Lihua is now a wife and mother, wearing an orange windbreaker and the temperament of a strong woman in the business world. It's still a little bleak.
Zhang Ke rubbed his hands and said with a smile: "It's so windy, why are everyone standing outside watching the scenery?" ”
Everyone laughed, and Zhang Yaping said to him: "I know that you can come over at night, Yang Rongping of Unicom hopes to talk at night, they are rushing over from the city ......"
"I can't talk about any tricks," Zhang Ke said, "Let's go in first, it's very ...... at night."
Just today, China Mobile Communications Corporation was officially established in Beijing, and the mobile communications assets were spun off from the former State Administration of Telecommunications to form a large state-owned communications enterprise with a registered capital of up to 51.8 billion yuan, with Wang Shujian, former director of the State Administration of Telecommunications, as the general manager.
While all of this is a step-by-step and expected thing, it can also carry many subtle changes.
Yang Rongping quickly rushed over, in addition to Xiao Ruimin of Unicredit, he was accompanied by the senior management of the two provincial branches of Unicom Donghai and Unicom Jiangnan, as well as Miss Liantong Cheng who met in Beijing last time.
Cheng Yingxia looked at Zhang Ke's handsome face under the corridor lamp, such a young and handsome face looked even more mysterious in the night, but such a man would only be tempted by a stunning woman like Song Wanpei. When Cheng Yingxia saw him coming, she just showed a kind smile like work.
After the secret meeting in Beijing before the Spring Festival (in fact, it can't be said to be a secret meeting, because of Song Wanpei's sake, there was a lot of uproar, but some people's eyes did divert their attention), Kumho did not come forward much, but the Ministry of Information Industry and Unicom had a subtle change in the established radical development strategy, no longer emphasizing the comprehensive development of new users.
Since Kumho has such a big cost advantage in mobile phone chips, it is also the general trend for Unicom's customized mobile phone business to fully tilt towards Kumho's technology.
China Unicom will also focus on promoting customized mobile phone services in central cities with good network conditions and economically developed areas in accordance with Kumho's capacity expansion rhythm, develop new users, and increase investment in G** network infrastructure.
"We have carefully considered all the conditions of cooperation," Yang Rongping and Zhang Ke walked in side by side, and said softly, "Time is very urgent, everyone hopes that all the conditions can be negotiated as soon as possible, to implement this plan, I am here to make one last request to Kumho on behalf of Unicom......
"Mr. Yang, please speak." Zhang Ke said with a smile.
"Unicom's R&D department found in the recent scientific and technological information retrieval that Kumho has long developed the multi-card standby technology, and has applied for patents in many regions at home and abroad, and Unicom wants to obtain the authorization of the relevant patented technology......" Yang Rongping stopped and solemnly requested.
"Oh," Zhang Ke knew that Unicom had not given up on the determination to develop the CDMA network in the end, which means that in the near future, Unicom will operate both G** and CDMA mobile communication networks, but he didn't want him to answer Yang Rongping's question directly, turned his head and asked Zhang Yaping, "We have this technology patent called multi-card standby in our hands?" "I applied for so many patents last year, I can't remember how many." ”
"This is a technology patent applied for by Kumho in 98 years, and we can only retrieve it when we reach the decryption period," Yang Rongping turned back to Zhang Yaping and asked, "Does Mr. Zhang have any impression?" ”
"Some impressions," Zhang Yaping said, a few days ago in Haizhou, there was a special meeting to discuss the application prospects of related technologies, Zhang Ke also attended, he even mentioned at the meeting that relevant technologies can be used as the last bargaining chip in negotiations with Unicom, Zhang Yaping can't laugh at Zhang Ke's old bottom, holding his chin and saying, "Let's talk in the house first, information or something, I can let Jianye pass it over now, and I should be able to find someone at this point in time." ”
There is not much market for Doka standby technology in foreign countries, and it is also a chicken rib technology in China at present.
Even if China Mobile upgrades to GPRS network on the basis of the original G** network, there is only one communication network in the end, and there is no switching problem between different networks, and very few people will install two or more mobile phone cards in their mobile phones for switching.
Due to the monopoly operation of the domestic mobile communication industry, the roaming tariff of mobile communication between cities is very expensive, and those business people who often shuttle between different cities usually prepare a number of mobile phone cards in different regions or even prepare several mobile phones to save excessive mobile roaming tariffs, and multi-card standby technology also has a certain application market.
Kumho was originally aware of this market demand and developed the Doka standby technology. On the other hand, this demand market is not large enough, and it is not enough for Kumho to seriously develop a high-end dual-SIM business mobile phone.
China Unicom decided to build a CDMA network, in the near future will have both G**, CDMA two kinds of mobile communication network, multi-card standby technology in addition to one network and two SIM standby, but also to achieve dual network and dual SIM standby, can enable Unicom users to make full use of the two communication network resources. For Unicom, multi-card standby technology is quite important.
While China Unicom was determined to build a CDMA network, it also considered the problem of user transition and resource complementarity between two different network standards, but there was no good solution until Kumho's multi-card standby technology was retrieved.
However, at this stage, the CDMA mobile phones that come out are all machine-card integration, and Unicom must first solve the problem of machine-card separation.
Waiting for the information to be faxed over, Zhang Yaping first explained to Xiao Ruimin, Yu Ping and Ding Wenxiang and others in the meeting room, and they quickly knew the importance of relevant technologies to Unicom, and mobile phone manufacturers can rely on considerable technology to develop dual-SIM mobile phones required by Unicom, so that it will be more convenient for Unicom to develop the original G** users into high-end CDMA users.
Yang Rongping knew that the faxed information was only the public patent information that anyone could query, and this information was in his briefcase, but he couldn't be too anxious, so he talked about other topics first, and after more than an hour, the technical information was faxed over.
Zhang Ke sat at the conference table and looked at the technical information, and said to Yang Rongping: "It turns out that this technology, I think the multi-card standby technology should be meaningful to Unicom, and the first thing to solve is to solve the problem of CDMA mobile phone machine card separation......"
"The separation of machine and card is not a technical problem, the difficulty is that it is impossible to determine a unified standard ......," Zhang Yaping said.
Yang Rongping knew that Kumho could not casually transfer the Doka standby technology, and patent licensing fees would not be the goal pursued by Kumho, they were destined to ask for more, he didn't know if Zhang Ke really knew enough about the relevant technical background, so he had to talk to him at this time. Everyone's time is very tight, Unicom plans to go public in June, during this period of time, even if you give up the idea of rapid development in business, you also want to have a significant increase, you can negotiate the conditions one day in advance, one day in advance in the central city to focus on the promotion of mobile phone customization business will be of significant help to the business growth, he said to Zhang Ke: "Do you have any good suggestions? ”
"The so-called standard is also very simple, find a few mobile phone manufacturers with a technical foundation to set up a joint laboratory under the Digital Mobile Phone Technology Promotion Association to develop CDMA machine card separation technology, at least so that domestic mobile phone manufacturers have a unified standard in the production of CDMA mobile phones...... Our multi-SIM standby technology can also authorize the Digital Mobile Phone Technology Promotion Association to authorize the use of member companies, so that China Unicom does not need to be authorized separately......"
Zhang Ke's request, Yang Rongping also foresaw it, and it was also discussed at Unicom's internal meeting. Zhang Ke's purpose is to further strengthen the industry position of the Digital Mobile Phone Technology Promotion Association, but it will not harm the interests of Unicom, and it can only be said that it will set up certain obstacles for foreign mobile phone manufacturers. Once the CDMA machine-card separation technology developed by the Digital Mobile Phone Technology Association becomes the de facto standard in China and is supported by China Unicom, foreign mobile phone manufacturers need to follow a unified technical standard if they want to launch CDMA mobile phones with machine-card separation to the Chinese market; For China Unicom, it is also hoped that CDMA mobile phones can realize the separation of machine and card, so that it will be more convenient to develop CDMA users in the future, and they are worried that they will not find anyone to attack the related technical problems for them.
The same is true for the multi-card standby technology, Kumho may agree to relax the licensing restrictions on domestic mobile phone manufacturers, but will not be generous and benevolent to foreign mobile phone manufacturers, but will do everything possible to set up obstacles.
"Kumho's proposal is very good, and in fact, Unicom is also interested in participating in the work of setting up a joint laboratory...... Yang Rongping said, and Unicom always needs to take some initiative in technology.
"In this way, we don't have any differences," Zhang Ke said with a smile, "I think the matter of the joint laboratory is still led by Unicom and Lianxin, and we can provide coolie ...... here."
Unlike G** and GPRS are open standards, Qualcomm owns the vast majority of CDMA patents and is the world's only supplier of CDMA mobile phone chips, which has led to the high price of CDMA mobile phones for a long time, restricting the development of CDMA, even after China's full development, the user scale is even far less than one-tenth of GPRS users. Kumho will not give up that segment of the market, but it will not take advantage of the benefits, at this time, be generous, to make Unicom and Lianhua feel that they owe Kumho a favor.
Yang Rongping and Xiao Ruimin felt a little surprised, at present, only Kumho's technical strength is the strongest, not to mention the multi-card standby technology, and the realization of CDMA machine card separation can only rely on Kumho's technical strength, but they didn't want Zhang Ke to promise to let Kumho provide technical strength, but let Unicom and Unicredit do the leading things.
Yu Ping didn't speak, as long as Kewang Gaoke can participate, it will be a victory, and he shouldn't expect anything to be in the limelight.
In the past month, Kewang Hi-Tech and Unicredit jointly provided customized mobile phones for the development of new users in China Unicom's Beijing area, and increased the sales of an additional 20,000 pieces, although it only contributed less than 2 million profits to Kewang Hi-Tech, but it is of great significance.
As long as Kumho and Unicom successfully reach a grey market agreement tonight, Unicom will officially sign a customized procurement contract with Kewang Hi-Tech and Unicredit tomorrow for a total of up to three million mobile phones, and the three million sets of ESS baseband chip components required by Kewang Hi-Tech and Unicredit to produce these customized mobile phones will naturally be provided by Kumho.
Unicredit's production base is limited, and due to the stiff relationship with the senior management of the parent company Huaxia Electronics, the plan to expand production capacity has been blocked, and Xiao Ruimin can only hand over part of the orders to Xinyuan Electric OEM.
This is the primary reason why everyone gathers in Qinyuan today, tomorrow Xinyuan Electric Appliances and Kewang Hi-Tech will officially break ground for the mobile phone factory in Jinshan, and Yang Rongping will also be invited to participate in the groundbreaking ceremony on behalf of Unicom; The component production base of the components division of Aida Group secretly broke ground long before the Spring Festival.
If you want to compare the liveliness of Beijing today, you can only say that you have quietly entered the village. China Mobile Communications Group announced its establishment in Beijing today, and the invited guest lineup should be particularly strong, Chen Xinsheng on behalf of Kumho, Chen Jing on behalf of Kewang Hi-Tech both went to Beijing; Although there are some people gathered here, it is relatively much more inconspicuous.
In this cooperation, although Kumho and Unicom are in a dominant position, Kumho and Unicom will not sign any direct agreement, but Kewang Hi-Tech and Unicredit will build a bridge of communication in the middle; Kumho will also provide ESS baseband chipsets to Unixun and Dongxing to enable them to develop new mobile phones, as agreed to the Ministry of Information Industry. Of course, Kumho will not provide a complete mobile phone technical solution to Lianxun and Dongxing for the time being, and in addition, ESS baseband chips will be supplied to Kewang Hi-Tech and Unicredit in the case of limited production, which ensures that the grey disk agreement between Kumho and Unicom can be implemented.