Chapter Ninety-Eight: Finding New Partners
The phone call between Eva and Seryosha ended reluctantly until before getting on the plane, and after putting down the phone, Eva felt as if she had come back to life with full blood, and her body was once again full of energy. During the journey back to Boston from San Antonio, Eva began to refine Seryosha's idea of placing Yota Communications' mobile solution in Earth's low-altitude orbit. This is a fantastic idea, and if this plan is realized, all telecom operators in the world will no longer be a competitor to Yota Communications, because no single country operator can provide mobile communication coverage around the world.
However, there is another key point in this plan, and that is Yota Communications' satellite technology. It's a bit difficult, but it's not a big deal, and it's really not possible for Yota to work with others or buy related technology directly. By the way, it is better to cooperate, so that the Iridium project will be put into operation as soon as possible, leaving competitors far behind.
But with whom? Speaking of the field of communication, Yota may have an unavoidable opponent, that is, the communication giant - Motorola.
Three hours later, when Eva's private business jet landed at Boston Airport, Eva couldn't wait to contact her subordinates to gather the backbone of the technical department. Eva can't wait to see AT&T deflated.
On the drive back to Cambridge, Eva asked her female secretary to contact some well-known business PR firms and start preparing for a deal with Motorola. Eva is now a celebrity, and his every move is followed by the media. If Eva rushes to the president of Motorola to talk about cooperation without communication in advance, it will be both a loss of face and a shame, so it is very necessary for the public relations company to be responsible for the preliminary contact activities before this, not only to conduct preliminary communication to clarify whether the two parties have the intention of cooperation, but also to remain silent in front of the media.
By the time Eva returned to Yota's headquarters, all the key players in the company's R&D department were ready. Eva walked into her conference room and said to everyone, leave your phones outside the office now, what we're going to talk about in a moment is very important, and I don't want the media to know about it before the plan is finalized.
When everyone heard Eva say this, they immediately felt that this meeting might announce some big news, could it be that there was good news from AT&T. It seems that this year's dividend is another considerable gain.
It's not unfounded, when Yota Communications was a small company, they won a blockbuster contract for AT&T's first-generation mobile communications solutions. The company's sales revenue was as high as $40 billion that year, and the boss, Eva, gave $2 billion to reward all the employees of Yota Communications, and at least a few million dollars. Spurred on by the bonus, Yota Communications employees have become extraordinarily loyal, and few people leave despite how outside companies and headhunters poach. The second-generation mobile communication has been developed for several years, and whether it can replicate the glory of Yota when it was founded is the thing that all employees of Yota Communications are most looking forward to.
When everyone put their phones outside and returned to their seats, Eva looked at everyone and said slowly, "I'm going to announce the bad news first, that is, our cooperation with AT&T is likely not going to continue?" ”
As soon as Eva said this, the employees in the conference room suddenly began to talk about it, and everyone invariably showed a look of disappointment.
"But ......," Eva looked at everyone, and when the room was quiet again, she continued, "I'm going to expand my company's business to the field of telecom operators, and I hope to be able to put our second generation of mobile communications on a completely new platform, Low Earth Orbit (LEO)." ”
"Satellite, I heard you right, it's crazy......"
"Can our technology meet the requirements of satellite communications?"
"What about launches, which one provides the launch service? It can't be NASA, right? ”
The plan that Eva has just announced is just crazy, and it makes it difficult for everyone to adapt to it in a short period of time.
"Alright, Yota friends, are you so easily intimidated? Isn't it just a satellite? I'll admit that we've never explored this technology, but everything we've done has been done after everything has been arranged. Our second-generation mobile technology is the best in the world today, but our technology is not at the right time. At a time when the world is in a recession, very few countries and regions are able to adopt our mobile communication solutions. So far, only Japan, Hong Kong and other regions are interested in approaching us, and AT&T has not yet recovered the cost of the first generation of mobile communications, and it is unlikely that they will spend a lot of money to upgrade to the second generation of global mobile communications. Our technology is global, and if it doesn't reach its full potential because of the operator's problems, it's a waste of our hard work......" Eva's words are full of inspiration, although she is a woman, but her years of shopping mall career have given Eva the aura of a superior, and she knows how to motivate her subordinates. Sitting in this room are basically multi-millionaires. If they only rely on money, these people may not be motivated, and honor and responsibility may be more useful than money.
"Eva, we have never tested the signal stability of the second-generation Yota system in low Earth orbit, and we don't know anything about the satellite platform. If we were to put the second-generation Yota communications system on the Low Earth Orbit Satellite (LEO) platform, I think it would take several years. Jack Patrick, head of the R&D department, first asked the question.
"It doesn't matter, we are experts in the field of mobile communications, we just need to do our job, as for the issue of satellite platforms, we can contact other companies to cooperate with us, Motorola, NASA are the partners we strive for. As for AT&T, let's turn the page! Eva replied disappreciatively.
"As I remember, Motorola is now helping the Department of Defense design a global communications satellite system for the military, and if we can get in, maybe we can knock on the door of the Pentagon and become a ......supplier to the military," Jesse, the head of marketing, said excitedly.