Chapter Ninety-Five: The First Ray of Light of 3G
The flowers bloom at three ends, one on each branch.
When the business has reached the point of the Hatsune Group, it is naturally impossible for the entire group to focus on one or two businesses at the same time.
Even if the performance of winning the agency rights of "World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade" is in full swing and profitable, it is only one of Hatsune's three major moves this May.
Fei Liluo and Gu Mojie analyzed whether the "Hatsune One Card" plan would lead to instability in the rear of the Hatsune Group, and continue to offend the Ahri Group when they were already at war with NetEase and Fuji Xun. Her father, Fei Zhengqing, is busy in Nanyang countries, opening up the market for the first batch of 3G terminal hardware made by the Hatsune Intelligent business team such as Feng Guorong and Zhang Tuohai.
May 7, Manila. Fei Zhengqing set foot on this land with his secretary, assistant, and business and technical support personnel assigned to him by Hatsune, a team of more than ten people.
The first samples they brought were wireless SIM cards based on Qualcomm's QSC6500 chipset that support CDMA-1X network standards.
Many new-generation netizens may not be familiar with the product "wireless number jù card", mainly because the time for this thing to be stored in China is really very short, at most two years, it is an emergency product launched by operators in order not to waste base station resources when the concept of 3G has just been rolled out, when 3G mobile phone users are insufficient, and mobile Internet is not developed.
The specific appearance is that it looks like a USB flash drive, with a SIM card in it, which can be inserted into the laptop, directly through guòUSB dial-up, and let the laptop connect to the 3G network. Later, with the further popularization of smartphones and mobile Internet, this kind of "holding a laptop everywhere to surf the Internet" product disappeared.
But it is undeniable that this is the first ray of light for the commercial use of 3G.
Strictly speaking, the QSC6500 chipset can only make 2.5G terminal products, and cannot reach 3G, and it cannot support the CDMA-3GEVDO network mode. When downloading at full capacity, the internet speed is less than one-fifth of the latter.
However, this is a transitional product, and it is still widely used in Southeast Asia, where operators are reluctant to phase out the CDMA-1X network and want to squeeze out the residual value for a year or two.
For Hatsune Intelligence, which has just set foot in the communication hardware industry, to make a product that has been verified and matured and has no technical risks, it is necessary to first run in the team proficiently. It is much more important to improve the whole system architecture of OEM, on-site quality control, stress testing, technical support and feedback than to make a few broken money by selling this number of cards.
This is also why for such a small business, Fei Zhengqing brought so many people to the field investigation. This includes sending several field test engineers to prepare to stay for a long time to investigate the network status of CDMA-1X operators in major cities in the Philippines, so that in the future, in case of RF problems at Hatsune's terminals, they can analyze and capture field measurements on the spot.
"It's really broken, tsk, I didn't expect the Filipino maid to be so poor." A few technicians sent by the Hatsune Group began to complain as soon as they were not far from Manila Airport.
Some people complained, and some people retorted, such as: "It's all like this, it's normal for Nanyang to be poor." Besides, there is nothing wrong with this - if in such a complex and broken network environment, our terminals can run stably, then it means that our quality has passed, and it will definitely be no problem to take it back to China in the future. ”
The group complained, first went to Manila City, found a hotel to stay, and then began to contact the related households and the Ministry of Commerce's small shrimp.
In 2007, the Chinese have begun to become rich, and the annual overseas tourism market has reached the scale of tens of millions. The tropical style of Nanyang countries is naturally also popular for short-distance outbound travel.
However, it seems that in the group opened by domestic travel agencies, it has been monopolized by the "new Malaysia-Thailand" route; Indonesia and the Philippines are often out of the people's field of vision (except for Bali). The reason for this is that the Philippines and Indonesia have really bad diplomatic relations with China.
In the eyes of the Chinese people in 07, Manila only has Filipino maids and bananas.
Fei Zhengqing has also been engaged in foreign trade in Southeast Asian countries for more than ten years, although the products involved before have nothing to do with communications, electronics and other things, but after all, many yamen under the Ministry of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce, and Customs and Customs in these countries are more or less related. Domestic importers in the Philippines, India and other countries have also made a lot of friends.
The relationship between the Ministry of Commerce is barely available now, and most of the original importer partners are not able to help -- the Philippine importers who have cooperated with Fei Zhengqing have not dealt in communication electronic products before.
The short man is tall, who makes the Hatsune Group really lack the experience and talents in the foreign trade of electronic products, so he can only make do with it first.
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Jose. Song Jida is the owner of an import and export company in Manila, a wealthy second-generation head. His company has been providing terminal and base station equipment procurement agency for ART, the second largest wireless telecommunications operator in the Philippines. There have also been some market wedge opportunities with PLDT, the largest operator.
Of course, a scumbag country like the Philippines does not have the ability to localize communication equipment, and no matter what it uses, it is nothing more than looking for foreigners to buy it. Therefore, the import business circle of communication electronic equipment is very developed.
On this day, he arrived at the company after ten o'clock as usual; Over the years, he has developed a habit - the helpers left by his father can always help him keep his daily business in order, at most collect some kickbacks to fill his pocket, but at least he can stabilize most of his customers without bothering about it.
The corruption in the Philippines is much stricter than that in China, and as long as the rebates are enough, some of the large state-owned telecom operators are supported by people.
However, today is obviously a little different, because just now in the office, I saw the female secretary writing a memo for him there, and as soon as I saw him coming, I came up to report:
"Boss, this morning Mr. Lucas of **ART Telecom, called and asked you to meet him, saying that a new telecom export supplier had approached him and wanted you to help with the import. The other party is Chinese. ”
Song Jida was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously asked, "What?" Chinese? Xia Wei or ZTE? ”
The female secretary denied: "I heard that it is not, and the specific Mr. Lucas did not disclose." ”
Song Jida secretly wondered: "These guys, why are they so unreasonable, how dare they bypass me and go directly to **ART?" Look at Lao Tzu if he doesn't clean you up. ”
In the Philippines to do telecommunications equipment import business, few dare to bypass the import and export company and directly quote to the telecom operator, because that means that the operational space of the intermediate link is greatly compressed, and many under-table costs cannot be moved - this is simply murdering the rebate space of all intermediate links! Foreigners who dare to do business in the Philippines are looking for death!
** ART's Mr. Lucas can't afford not to give face, so he must go, but on the way there, Song Jida has already thought of more than a dozen excuses in his heart to make that Chinese yellow.
The driver drove a Lexus car in Songjida, stuck in traffic for more than an hour, and finally arrived at the **ART headquarters in the Emita district. There are no customers urging on the road, and it seems that both parties feel that traffic jams and tardiness are normal.
The streets are almost entirely full of Japanese cars.
South Asian countries have very different attitudes towards World War II than China and South Korea. Because China and South Korea were both sovereign countries before being invaded by Japan, they naturally hated the Japanese attack to the core.
However, these countries in the South Seas were colonies of Britain, France and the United States before, and they have not even awakened their national consciousness at all. After the Japanese came, they also plundered the local people economically, but at least they set up a puppet regime. In the end, when the Japanese army was about to be defeated and retreated, whether it was sincere or in the consideration of blocking Britain and France after the war, in short, the Japanese did let all the countries in Nanyang establish independent states. These monkeys are naturally grateful to the Japanese and still believe in the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere".
The former was beaten to the level of cattle and horses by the Japanese on the basis of people; The latter was raised to the level of cattle and horses by the Japanese on the basis of pigs and dogs.
So, there are Japanese cars everywhere.
"Mr. Song Jida, it seems that I am very late today. Let me introduce to you, this is Mr. Fei from China, this time the agent is Hatsune Intelligence's CDMA-1X wireless network card product, I think there is a lot of potential for cooperation with our **ART. If it can be determined, the customs declaration and even the follow-up procedures are ready to be handled by you. ”
As soon as they met, Mr. Lucas said it very directly, so that Song Jida couldn't find an excuse to push it off at the first time. He glanced at the kind and restrained Fei Zhengqing next to him, it was a man in his early fifties, very finely groomed, it was said that he should be a veteran in the industry, and he should not be so bold and break the unspoken rules.
Let's wait and see the conditions, and then have a target.
"Mr. Lucas is so eager, it seems that he has seen a batch of cost-effective products today."
"It's true - the final purchase price of this batch of cards reported to us is only 260 yuan a piece, we have been doing CDMA-1X business for two years, and we have never seen such a cheap terminal."
As soon as he heard that the other party had already quoted Lucas, Song Jida called a nest fire in his heart: "Hell! This surnamed Fei actually sold a 1X number jù card for only 260 yuan? How much difference can Lao Tzu make! ”
He is in this business, so he naturally knows the cost.
Buying an American's QSC6500 chipset, today's market price is about 160~180, counting the surrounding materials and processing costs, as well as logistics and finance, at least the cost is more than 200 yuan.
Song Jida wants to earn it himself, and he has to give some rebates to Lucas and **ART Telecom at all levels, so he originally sold the 1X number jù card terminal of **ART, and he had to sell it for at least 350 yuan - so as to ensure that the importer has enough profits, otherwise, he is purely busy working for others.
Of course, there are also some second-hand chips that have been reshuffled and redone from the market, and may be able to reduce the cost of chips to less than 100 yuan - this is equivalent to the difference between the original memory module used in the assembly machine and the polished second-hand memory module. However, large manufacturers generally refuse to use second-hand polish goods for production, and it is easy to be caught by Qualcomm in licensing the trouble of LICENCE.
Hatsune Group seems to be a big Chinese IT group? That's not what you do, is it?
Song Jida was dealing with Lucas, and at the same time brewing how to stir up Huang Fei Zhengqing, a guy who doesn't understand the rules. (To be continued.) )