Chapter 127: Reactions from all sides
"Manager Li, this is a detailed information about CITIC Communications' wireless paging business that we have just sorted out, please take a look!"
Lee Jong Sheng, head of the Hong Kong project at Singtel, was in the office of his assistant handing him a thick file bag.
"Xie Lu Xie, just put it here."
Putting down the newspaper in his hand, Li Zongsheng glanced at the file bag, and then motioned to his assistant to put down the file bag so that he could go out.
"Okay, I've put this here for you!"
Seeing Li Zongsheng frowning, the assistant knew that his leader was thinking at this time, and he didn't want to be disturbed, so he put down his things and left.
"Hey, Secretary Xie, I'm Li Zongsheng, please help me transfer General Manager Li Mingli, I have something very important to report to him!"
After carefully reading the information in the portfolio, Li Zongsheng sorted out his thoughts, and then called the company's headquarters.
"Okay, please wait, it's been successfully transferred for you!"
When Secretary Xie heard that it was Li Zongsheng's call, and there was something important to report to the general manager, he didn't dare to slack off, so he transferred the call to the general manager's office.
"Hey, Manager Li, how are things going on over there, are they still going well?"
Li Zongsheng was sent to Hong Kong by him at the beginning, and now the other party is calling, and the report must be about the progress of the project.
"General manager, the first phase of telephone line planning is generally going smoothly, and the construction can be carried out immediately after the group's engineering team is assembled.
But now there is a very bad thing in front of us, the second step of the group's wireless communication plan has put another company ahead of us, and according to the detailed test data I just got recently, their wireless communication signal coverage is more than 90% of Hong Kong's area according to our conservative estimate.
If we enter the field of wireless communication in this situation, we can do more with less, and then there is their product, a pager that can display letters, which is not only small but also powerful, which is really amazing, which is definitely the most advanced invention today! ”
Even as a competitor, Li Zongsheng had to marvel at CITIC Communications' pager after reading the information.
"So what are their flaws and deficiencies that we can exploit now?"
Although the cruel truth is already in front of them, after all, this is just one place in Hong Kong, as long as they can see the opportunity and seize this opportunity, they can create more value in other places and other fields.
"Yes, that is their signal strength problem and anti-interference problem, which they do not do as well as our group, our group's technical reserve has signal supplementation technology, adaptive frequency modulation technology and filtering technology can effectively solve their problems to a large extent.
I think we can use these technologies to negotiate with them, and we may not be able to obtain the patent license for their alphabet pager, but I think there is no problem with the right of first refusal, as long as our group and the other party reach a purchase agreement, then we can build our group's own wireless paging network in China and other regions such as Malaysia......"
Hong Kong is so small and the world is so big, as long as the interests do not conflict with each other and the other party has money to make, Li Zongsheng is completely sure that CITIC Communications will definitely agree to their request.
"Manager Li, your idea is very good, let it go, the group will do a good job of resource allocation for you!"
Although the signal transmission base station still needs to be rebuilt, a very critical part of the wireless paging network is to build on the existing fixed-line network system, and the relationship between the fixed-line network and the paging network is like a fish and water.
If the paging network wants to produce and develop, the fixed-line network must be popularized, otherwise if the public even makes a phone call, who is willing to buy a pager.
And thinking about it the other way, the development and prosperity of the paging business will definitely promote the explosive growth of the fixed-line business, which are all factors that Li Zongsheng has taken into account.
"President, this is our current situation, may I ask if our plan will continue to be implemented?"
CITIC Communications' rapid action has also completely affected the planning and deployment of Nippon Electric, wireless paging network, this is not a difficult thing for them, they can build if they want to, but the high price and high cost of the existing digital pager are not suitable for the large-scale promotion of this business, and it will be a bit more than worth the loss to do it, and they can't do it at a loss.
It's better to wait until the technology is mature before large-scale promotion, not to mention that they Japan Electric Company also got confirmation from its partner Matsushita Electric Company, alphabet pager from research and development to mass production, at least it should take three or four years, as a giant second only to Motorola in the pager production industry, their words represent authority.
During this period of time, they can first establish a mature local telephone and international long-distance telephone network, and then rely on the partnership with Panasonic to establish a paging network covering the whole of Hong Kong, everything is so perfect, as for the Singapore Telecom Group and the existing old Dadong Telecom and Hong Kong Telephone Company, their company will not make a loss-making investment, time will prove how strong their competitiveness will be.
"Of course, we will continue to implement the first phase of the plan, but the progress of this process will be accelerated, and the popularization of CITIC Communications' wireless paging service is also an opportunity for us.
Didn't their company's products start to go on the market two days later, so we completely adopted the strategy of empathy, starting with the public telephones of public offices, seizing the opportunity to establish the public telephone network, and it is not too late to postpone the telephone network in commercial and residential areas a little. ”
Kobayashi Hongzhi on the other end of the phone is not a stupid person, he quickly found their interests from this incident, and wanted to use the paging business of CITIC Communications Company to quickly promote the development of their local telephone and long-distance telephone business, and he also chose the public telephone network that the Hong Kong Telephone Company had not been able to push before, which has to be said to be quite thoughtful and insightful.
"Hi ......"
"Gentlemen, I think we're in some minor trouble!"
In Todd's office, he also threw a document in front of several of the company's executives.
"Mr. Todd, I think this is an opportunity for us to make a change in our company, and we can take it all out of the wireless paging business and focus on local and long distance calls.
The development of CITIC Communications' paging industry is certainly inseparable from the basic telephone network, as long as we can firmly grasp the telephone network in our hands, we can always enjoy the communication industry delicious cake of the majority of the ......"
After reading the whole information, the head of the call department, Perre, said in a relaxed tone, this can be said to be a double win for him, not only can he kick his opponent Royce out, but also strengthen his own department and enhance his strength.
"Mr. Todd, I completely disagree with Secretary Perre's statement that wireless communication is an emerging field with great potential for development, which can be clearly seen from the layout of CITIC Communications.
As long as we base ourselves on the company's existing telephone network and vigorously develop the construction of wireless paging network, we can do better than CITIC Communications......"