Chapter 543 Gulfstream 5 aircraft

When Stardust Communications announced bankruptcy last year, it took the initiative to contact the department that managed Iridium's bankruptcy and wanted to bid for all Iridium's assets. However, Iridium's company has many partners and coordination is not easy. Moreover, Motorola, as its owner, was not very willing to sell its technology to its competitors.

After several years of continuous launch of high-end smartphones in Europe and the United States, Stardust Communications has gained a foothold in the international communications market by investing in cheap mobile phones in emerging markets. After acquiring Hong Kong Telecom last year, it completed every link in the mobile communications chain from product manufacturing to providing network services, becoming one of the rare full spectrum mobile communications service companies in the world.

In the wave of listings of "all directions are destroyed", Stardust Communications successfully reorganized and listed in Hong Kong and the United States last year, and immediately made drastic adjustments to the original company structure. Although it did not laid off employees, it almost made major changes to the management of the former Hong Kong Telecom and made great adjustments to the original landline business.

In addition to vigorously compressing the proportion of company's landline business personnel and using optical fiber and CNC equipment to significantly upgrade and transform the original network, new data transmission services have also been greatly added, and China-US submarine optical cables are actively laid, and Hong Kong's local network bandwidth and data processing capabilities are fully improved according to the concept of "star computing", in order to improve the network level to the forefront of developed countries.

The company's business focus has shifted to the rising mobile communications and mobile Internet fields. Hong Kong is a city that believes in "free competition". The government has adopted an attitude of encouraging competition and reducing intervention for mobile communications. It has made less than 7 million people in Hong Kong own 5 mobile operators and 6 2G telephone networks. In addition to Stardust Communications having both mobile and fixed network licenses, Li Ka-shing's Hong Kong Hutchison Telecommunications is also a rival with equal strength.

Last year, Zhongxing International's lightning strike defeated Singapore Telecom and acquired Hong Kong Telecom, which certainly made Hong Kong people talk about, but there was a big event in the communications industry that was comparable to that of this. Before the European Vodafone Group acquired Mannesman, Germany, it acquired Li Ka-shing's "Orange" Telephone Company in Europe at a high price, which made Li Ka-shing's investment and income ratio reach 1:7. It was considered by the industry to be the most successful investment, and everyone praised Li Ka-shing for being a hottest one.

Regarding the lively 3G license auction trend in the international market, Hong Kong government is certainly unwilling to fall behind and decided to issue 4 licenses this year. Stardust Communications and Hutchison Telecom are of course eager to try and dare not neglect them. If they can successfully obtain the Hong Kong 3G license and cooperate with British Virgin to enter the European market, Stardust Communications' 3G communication network has already entered the ranks of international competitors.

If the acquisition of Iridium is successful, Stardust Communications will be qualified to operate satellite phones and is also developing a variety of mobile phones that use dual-slot dual standby mode. Among them, mobile phones that can both call Iridium satellite phones and access ordinary 3g mobile networks will be interviewed soon. With this weapon, the market prospects of Iridium mobile phones will be greatly expanded, so that they will have more confidence to enter the US mobile communications market in the future.

A company that has both a mobile communication network and can independently produce mobile phones is of course a great threat to Motorola. In 1998, the company handed over the throne of the world's number one mobile phone production to Nokia, a small country Finland mobile phone manufacturer, which made Motorola very regretful when inventing the mobile phone. Now, it is naturally unhappy to sell the satellite phone that the company spent a huge amount of money to its competitors.

In addition, the acquisition of Iridium also encountered strong opposition from the unexpected conservative forces in the United States. Although Iridium failed, it still represents the crystallization of American high-tech. Selling the 88 satellites alone to a company headquartered in Hong Kong made them smell an unknown smell. Moreover, although Zhongxing International has conquered cities overseas in recent years, its main business is still rooted in the mainland, which is an open secret.

Yang Xing was able to achieve such achievements at a young age. Photos of him accompanying senior officials in and out of China often appear in various media. There have been rumors that he has a special relationship with Chinese senior officials, so his career is smooth sailing. How could such a guy wearing an invisible "official and businessman" hat be so cheap that he could pick the shiny diamond of Iridium at will with just reaching out his hand?

So from the time Iridium declared bankruptcy until now, Stardust Communications has done a lot of work to settle various resistances. Motorola is helpless about Iridium's recovery, and it is not a solution to continue. After Yang Xing's handling, the US Foreign Investment Committee finally let the acquisition go. Although the US President Bush, who had just taken office, was conservative and not friendly to China, he has just taken office now. There is still a period of running-in to organize his own team. Many political departments are in a vacuum period of handover, and many people have no time to continue to entangle Iridium. Zhongxing's American company feels that it is a good time to win Iridium, so Yang Xing flew to the United States himself, just to quickly fight and win Iridium in one fell swoop.

Because of his sufficient preparations in the early stage and Yang Xing asked the Wall Street tycoon to secretly assist, the court that managed the bankruptcy of Iridium finally agreed to sell Iridium assets (including satellite and ground control gates) to Stardust Communications for an ultra-low price of $25 million. Although Motorola signed the transaction with his nose, he still made some small moves. He refused to continue to provide Iridium with mobile phones and wanted to get stuck Stardust Communications' neck. After all, there is still a big difference between satellite phones and ordinary phones.

Who would have thought that Stardust Communication was prepared for a long time, not only was it ready to launch a lighter, thinner and cheaper Iridium phone, but it also announced that a new satellite phone with dual-stop dual standby will be available soon. Although some reverse engineering and industrial spy methods were used to plagiarize parts of Motorola's original satellite phone, which may cause Motorola to file a patent lawsuit, as long as the Iridium phone is recognized, Stardust Communication will be fully prepared and consumed by Motorola.

Yang Xing not only settled the acquisition of Iridium in the United States, but also successfully aroused the interest of the US and political parties in Iridium mobile phones. In his previous life, he learned that Iridium relied on the US contract, Yang Xing had no reason to miss this opportunity in this life. Now the new Iridium company has come to the US to take the initiative to promote it. The military is very interested in Iridium itself. As for whom it changes to be its boss, it doesn't care, so it soon signed a long-term contract.

Yang Xing also revealed to the military that he wanted to expand the bandwidth of the existing satellite network, improve data services, and integrate GPS and other technologies to make the military more interested and agree to deepen cooperation in the future. After the acquisition of Iridium Company ended, the announcement of this contract worth $36 million will be of great benefit to enhance the reputation of the new Iridium Company. As for the order of the US political fu, it has not yet arrived, but Stardust Communication has already given the new Iridium mobile phone to some departments for trial use. The "911" broke out. Generally, when the mobile phone cannot be connected, the benefits of satellite phones can be reflected. I believe that at that time, the US political fu will naturally take the initiative to purchase satellite phones for global calls.

The successful acquisition of Iridium has allowed Yang Xing to take the initiative to gain a lot of rewards. He was proud and couldn't help but want to spend some time in the United States. This time he arrived in the United States. In addition to the acquisition of Iridium, he was also preparing to accept a big gift, which is his US Gulfstream 5 ultra-long-range president landline.

With the global expansion of Xinghai Commercial Logistics Network, the air freight companies under Xinghai Logistics have also begun to grow and grow. One direct consequence of the expansion of Zhongxing International Group's business scope is that the company's senior management needs to travel frequently across continents of the world. Therefore, in addition to the usual cargo transportation business, Xinghai Logistics has also established a business flight company to purchase business aircraft and helicopters to meet the company's leaders' convenient and rapid long-distance travel needs.

The Bombardier Crj aircraft that Yang Xing purchased at the time is now handed over to the US branch for use, because the supervisors Wang Yiren and Guo Ying often have to run between California and Harvard, where the US branch headquarters are located. Yang Xing himself lacks a car, and his subordinates who are kind-hearted quickly ordered a US Gulfstream 5 business plane for him. This aircraft is twice as large as the Bombardier Crj, with a long range, fast speed and more luxurious interior, which is very consistent with Yang Xing's identity.

The Sky Star City, which is being built in full swing in Hong Kong, has begun to take shape. At that time, the old Kai Tak Airport was reclaimed as the foundation, but the old runway was not completely abandoned, and a section was left for helicopter take-off and landing. At Lantau Airport, Xinghai Logistics also purchased a hangar for group aircraft. The private jet industry in Hong Kong is very powerful, and many wealthy people use the method of leasing or purchasing private jets to hand over to professional companies for management. Xinghai Airlines is preparing to carry out this business, so the boss's Gulfstream 5 is undoubtedly a good publicity sign.

A Gulfstream 5 aircraft sold for as much as 50 million US dollars. Yang Xing came to the headquarters of Gulfstream Company in southeastern Georgia, USA to pick it up, and was naturally warmly welcomed. Gulfstream Company also found out that Yang Xing was interested in buying a few more aircraft, so he naturally did not dare to neglect such large customers. The president of Gulfstream Company even accompanied Yang Xing to visit everywhere in person.

Yang Xing stopped taking vacations with his fiancée this time, so except for a few girls who continued to stay in Greece to enjoy the sunshine, most of them came to the United States with Yang Xing. Gulfstream Company saw that Yang Xing was young and rich, and there were a lot of beauties around him. Seeing that they commented on the interior of the plane, Yang Xing was kind and could not see the reason why she wanted to impress Yang Xing and serve the women around Yang Xing first.

The cold metal aircraft manufacturing workshop obviously lacks attractiveness to the beauties around Yang Xing. Although the Gulfstream company is located in Savanna, which has the most complete historical style on the East Coast of the United States, it is small and has few people and a slow pace of life, which makes them who have always liked the fun. Gulfstream company, which observes the words and expressions, strives to promote the prosperity and lively atmosphere of Atlanta, the capital of Georgia. It is also the location of the famous movie "Gone with Gone". The girls could not resist the temptation and brought Yang Xing together. Who would have thought that something happened.
Chapter completed!