Chapter 1120: Dark Disk Agreement
After a simple dinner in Jianye at night, Zhang Ke rushed to Jinshan overnight.
Since there was no time to be delayed in Jianye, I arrived at the outskirts of Jinshan City at nine o'clock.
The water of the Yinma River under the night is like shiny black silk, shining brightly and shining with a mysterious luster. The car quietly drove into the quiet manor under the night sky.
Jinshan Lake collapsed, and the construction of Jinshan New City and Industrial New District was severely frustrated. Qinyuan has maintained its original scale and has not been rushing to expand, just like a pearl embedded in the outskirts of Jinshan. If Zhang Ke met any guests in Jinshan, he would mostly choose to go to Qinyuan. However, during this period, the Zhongjing Microchip Kingsoft Factory Project was officially launched, and there were more people coming and going to and from Jinshan, Qinyuan became lively.
At night, Liu Zhicheng, the president of Zhongjing Microchip, and Zhang Yaping, the CEO of the Components Department, all lived in Qinyuan. Zhang Ke got out of the car and saw that in addition to Liu Zhicheng and Zhang Yaping, the boss of Xinyuan Electric Appliances was also there. His pretty and charming niece Ding Lihua is now a wife and mother. She is wearing an orange windbreaker and has the temperament of a strong business woman. She absolutely can't imagine that she was so nervous that she wanted to pour her youth on others when she served tea and water in the office a few years ago. However, compared with Yu Ping, the co-president of Kewang next to her, she was still a little bleak.
Zhang Ke rubbed his hands and said with a smile: "It's so strong that everyone is standing outside to watch the scenery?"
Everyone laughed and Zhang Yaping said to him: "I know you can come here at night. Yang Rongping from China Unicom hopes that they can talk at night. They are coming from the city..."
"I can't tell you anything," said Zhang Ke. "Everyone will go in first, it's very cold at night..."
Just today, China Mobile Communications Group Corporation was officially established in Beijing. The overall mobile communications assets were separated from the former State Administration of Telecommunications to form a super-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.
Although all this is step by step, what is expected can also bring many subtle changes.
Yang Rongping rushed over quickly. In addition to Xiao Ruimin of Lianxin, he was accompanied by senior executives of two provincial branches, China Unicom Donghai and China Unicom Jiangnan, as well as Miss China Unicom who met last time in Beijing.
Cheng Yingxia looked at Zhang Ke’s handsome face under the corridor lights. Such a young and handsome face looked even more mysterious under the night. However, such a man would only tempt a stunning woman like Song Wanpei. When Cheng Yingxia saw him looking over, she only showed a friendly smile on her work style.
After the secret meeting in Beijing before the Spring Festival (in fact, it cannot be said to be a secret meeting, because Song Wanpei caused a lot of controversy, but some people's attention was indeed diverted), Kumho did not come forward much, but the Ministry of Information Industry and China Unicom had a subtle change in the established radical development strategy, and no longer emphasized the comprehensive development of G** new users.
The second-generation ESS baseband chipset provided by Kumho before the Spring Festival also completely passed the internal performance test of China Unicom. Since Kumho has such a large cost advantage on mobile phone chips, China Unicom's customized mobile phone business is in a comprehensive manner to Kumho's technology.
China Unicom will also focus on promoting customized mobile phone business to develop new users in central cities with good G** network conditions and economically developed areas based on Kumho's production capacity expansion rhythm, and increase investment in G** network infrastructure.
"We have carefully considered all the cooperation conditions," Yang Rongping and Zhang Ke walked side by side and said softly, "Time is urgent. Everyone hopes that all the conditions can be negotiated as soon as possible. To implement this plan, I am here to make the last request to Kumho on behalf of China Unicom..."
"Please tell me, Mr. Yang." Zhang Ke said with a smile.
"China Unicom's R&D department found in recent scientific and technological intelligence search that it had developed the multi-card standby technology in Kumho and applied for patents in many areas in China and overseas. China Unicom wanted to obtain the authorization of relevant patented technologies..." Yang Rongping stopped and solemnly made a request.
"Oh," Zhang Ke knew that China Unicom had not given up on its determination to develop CDMA network in the end. This means that in the near future, China Unicom will operate two mobile communication networks, G** and CDMA at the same time. However, he didn't want him to answer Yang Rongping's question directly, and turned to Zhang Yaping, "We have this technical patent called Duka standby?" Yang Rong spread his hands together, "I applied for so many patents last year, and I can't remember much."
"This is a technical patent that Kumho applied for in 1998. We can only retrieve it just after the decryption period," Yang Rongping turned around and asked Zhang Yaping, "Do you have an impression on Mr. Zhang?"
"Some impressions," said Zhang Yaping. When he was in Haizhou a few days ago, he had 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 for negotiations with China Unicom. Zhang Yaping couldn't laugh at the scene and exposed Zhang Ke's old background. He held his chin with his hand and said, "Let's go to the house to talk first, and I can let Jianye pass on information now. At this point in time, someone should be found."
Duoka standby technology does not have much market in foreign countries, and it is also a useless technology in China at present.
Even if China Mobile upgrades to GPRS network based on the original G** network, there is only one communication network in the end, and there is no problem of switching between different networks. Few people will install two or more mobile phone cards in their mobile phones to switch.
Due to the monopoly operation of domestic mobile communications industry, the roaming fees for mobile communications between cities are very expensive. Business people who often travel between different cities usually prepare multiple mobile phone cards from different regions or even several mobile phones to save excessive mobile roaming fees. Multi-card standby technology has a certain application market.
Kumho developed the multi-card standby technology when it first observed this market demand; on the other hand, the demand market is not large enough, and it is not enough for Kumho to solemnly develop a high-end dual-card business mobile phone.
Unicom decided to build a CDMA network, and in the near future, it will have two mobile communication networks, G** and CDMA. In addition to one-network dual-stop, multi-card standby technology can also realize dual-network dual-stop standby, which will enable China Unicom users to fully utilize the two communication network resources of China Unicom. For China Unicom, multi-card standby technology is very important.
While China Unicom was determined to build a CDMA network, it also considered the problem of user transition and resource complementation between two different networks. There was no good solution until Kumho's multi-card standby technology was retrieved.
However, the CDMA mobile phones that are available at this stage are all integrated with the card. China Unicom first needs to solve the problem of card separation.
Waiting for the information to come, Zhang Yaping gave a brief explanation to Xiao Ruimin, Yu Ping, Ding Wenxiang and others in the talk room. They quickly knew the importance of relevant technologies to China Unicom. Mobile phone manufacturers can use considerable technologies to develop dual-stop mobile phones needed by China Unicom, so that it can be more convenient for China Unicom to develop the original G** users into high-end CDMA users.
Yang Rongping knew that the fax came only to be public patent information that anyone could query. This information was found in his briefcase, but he couldn't seem too anxious. He first talked about other topics and talked about it for more than an hour, and then faxed the technical information.
Zhang Ke sat at the conference table and looked through the technical information, saying to Yang Rongping: "It turns out that it is this technology. I think the multi-card standby technology must be meaningful to China Unicom. First, we must solve the problem of separation of CDMA mobile phone cards..."
"The separation of machine and card is not a technical problem. The difficulty is that it is impossible to determine the unified standards..." Zhang Yaping said.
Yang Rongping knew that Jinhu could not transfer the multi-card standby technology casually. Patent licensing fees would not be the goal that Jinhu pursued. They were destined to ask for more. He was not sure whether Zhang Ke really knew the relevant technical background enough. At this time, he had to bite the bullet and talk to him. Everyone was very busy. China Unicom planned to go public in June. During this period, even if he gave up the idea of making rapid progress in his business, he wanted to have a significant increase. He could negotiate the conditions one day in advance and focus on promoting mobile phone customization business in central cities one day in advance. He said to Zhang Ke: "What are your good suggestions?"
"The so-called standard is also very simple. Find a few mobile phone manufacturers with technical foundations to set up a joint laboratory under the Digital Mobile Phone Technology Promotion Association to develop CDMA card separation technology, which can at least allow domestic mobile phone manufacturers to have a unified standard when producing CDMA mobile phones... Our multi-card standby technology can also authorize the Digital Mobile Phone Technology Promotion Association to authorize and use member companies. In this way, China Unicom does not need to obtain authorization separately..."
Yang Rongping had foresaw Zhang Ke's request and also discussed it at the internal meeting of China Unicom. Zhang Ke's purpose is to further strengthen the industry status of the Digital Mobile Phone Technology Promotion Association, but it will not harm China Unicom's interests. It can only be said that it will set certain obstacles for foreign mobile phone manufacturers. Once the CDMA card separation technology developed by the Digital Mobile Phone Technology Association becomes a domestic standard and is supported by China Unicom, foreign mobile phone manufacturers need to follow unified technical standards to launch CDMA mobile phones with card separation to the Chinese market. For China Unicom, it also hopes that CDMA mobile phones can achieve card separation and can develop CDMA users more conveniently in the future. They are worried that they cannot find who will attack related technical problems for them.
The same is true for the multi-card standby technology. Kumho may agree to relax the authorization restrictions to domestic mobile phone manufacturers, but will not be generous and kind to foreign mobile phone manufacturers. On the contrary, he will try every means to set up obstacles.
"Kumho's suggestions are very good. In fact, China Unicom is also interested in participating in the establishment of a joint laboratory..." Yang Rongping said that China Unicom always needs to gain some initiative in technology.
"It seems that we have no differences," Zhang Ke said with a smile. "I think the matter of the United Laboratory is led by China Unicom and Lianxin. We can provide coolies here..."
Unlike G**, GPRS is an open standard. Qualcomm in the United States owns most of CDMA patents and is the only CDMA mobile phone chip supplier in the world. This has led to the long-term high price of CDMA mobile phones, which limits the development of CDMA. Even after China's full development, the user scale is even less than one-tenth of GPRS users. Kumho will not give up that segment of the market, but will not take up all the benefits. At this time, it is more generous and to make China Unicom feel that it owes Kumho a favor.
Yang Rongping and Xiao Ruimin felt a little surprised. At present, only Jinhu has the strongest technical strength. Needless to say, the multi-card standby technology can only rely on Jinhu's technical strength to achieve CDMA card separation. However, Zhang Ke did not want Zhang Ke to agree to let Jinhu provide technical strength, but the leading matters were made by Unicom and Lianxin.
Yu Ping didn't say anything. As long as Kewang Hi-Tech can participate, it will be a victory. There shouldn't be a luxury to show off.
In the past month, Kewang Hi-Tech and Lianxin have jointly provided customized mobile phones for new users in China Unicom's Beijing region, adding an additional 20,000 units to sales. Although it only contributed less than 2 million yuan in profits to Kewang Hi-Tech, it is of great significance.
As long as Kumho and Unicom successfully reach a dark disk agreement tonight, Unicom will officially sign a custom procurement contract with Kewang Hi-Tech and Lianxin tomorrow with a total of up to three million mobile phones. The three million sets of ESS basic frequency chip components required for Kewang Hi-Tech and Lianxin to produce these customized mobile phones will be provided by Kumho.
Lianxin's production base is limited in scale. Due to the rigging relationship with the senior management of parent company Huaxia Electronics, the plan to expand production capacity has been hindered, so Xiao Ruimin could only hand over part of the orders to Xinyuan Electric Appliances for OEM.
This is the primary reason why everyone gathered in Qinyuan today. Tomorrow, Xinyuan Electric Appliances and Kewang Hi-Tech's mobile phone factory in Kingsoft will officially break ground, and Yang Rongping will also be invited to participate in the groundbreaking ceremony on behalf of China Unicom; the component production base of the components department of Aida Group secretly broke ground before the Spring Festival.
If you want to compare the lively Beijing today, you can only say that you can enter the village quietly. The guest lineup invited by China Mobile Communications Group announced the establishment of the Beijing group today is particularly strong. Chen Xinsheng, representing Jinhu and Chen Jing, representing Kewang Gaoke, all went to Beijing; although some people gathered here, it is relatively inconspicuous.
In this cooperation, although Kumho and China Unicom dominate, Kumho and China Unicom will not sign any direct agreement, but will build a bridge of communication between Kewang Hi-Tech and Lianxin. Kumho will also provide ESS basic frequency chipsets to Lianxun and Dongxing in accordance with the conditions agreed to the Ministry of Information Technology to China and China Unicom to enable them to develop new mobile phones. Of course, Kumho will not provide complete mobile phone technical solutions to Lianxun and China Unicom for the time being. In addition, ESS basic frequency chips will be supplied to Kewang Hi-Tech and China Unicom in the case of production restrictions, which will ensure that the secret disk agreement between Kumho and China Unicom can be implemented.
Chapter completed!