Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

After all, not everyone is like Apple. Mobile phones are expensive, and there are people who pay for them. Many mobile phone companies in later generations want to occupy the market and increase sales. They must fight price wars. If there is no price war, consumers will not buy it.

Originally, the profits of mobile phones were low, and Qualcomm’s patent fees were so high, everyone must not be happy.

Although unwilling, despite the pain, none of us can avoid it, because Qualcomm's patents are too important for mobile phone manufacturers.

Of course, although Qualcomm charged a high rogue tax, it did not fail to bring benefits to many mobile phone manufacturers.

Although Qualcomm is a veritable rogue leader, my brother Tong is still very moral in society.

Before Qualcomm cooperates with other mobile phone manufacturers, it will sign an anti-authorization agreement with other mobile phone manufacturers.

This agreement is very simple, that is, for all mobile phone manufacturers that cooperate with Qualcomm, Qualcomm can let other mobile phone manufacturers that use Qualcomm chips use the patents invented by them for free.

It means that as long as you pay the protection fee to Qualcomm, other companies that cooperate with Qualcomm can use their patents as you like, without infringement, and others can't trouble you.

Chapter 969

The number of patents involved in a smart phone in later generations cannot be counted in detail. Sometimes you may inadvertently infringe even if you don’t have the technology to copy someone else’s technology.

Therefore, when later generations of Qualcomm charged patent fees, they also acted as the umbrella for many mobile phone manufacturers.

To put it simply, if you pay the money, Social Tong will keep you safe. It is precisely because of this agreement that Qualcomm has been involved in many lawsuits, and the national anti-monopoly fines Qualcomm almost every year.

And every time there are hundreds of millions of dollars in fines, if it were an ordinary company, with so many lawsuits, I'm afraid it would have been crazy.

But Qualcomm doesn't care. In order to solve the lawsuit, Qualcomm has a professional team of lawyers to deal with these matters.

If you are punished, you will be punished. Compared with what you earn, it is drizzle.

Yang Chen wants to enter the communication industry, and wants to occupy a part of the market in the future 3G4G network era. Qualcomm is the biggest opponent.

However, Yang Chen can't guarantee that the few people he snatched from Bell Labs will be more capable than Qualcomm in the future.

From Huawei, it is not difficult for future generations to see that various countries attach great importance to the communication industry, especially when it comes to the standard issues in the communication field, which will even arouse the strength of the national level.

As the application of large-scale integrated circuits, microprocessors and digital signals becomes more mature, the communication industry will be widely used in various fields. At that time, the communication industry will become a strategic industry for all countries. A comprehensive wrestling between countries and alliances.

The loser will not only have to pay high patent fees to the other party, but also be easily controlled by the other party to take the initiative in the industry.

Let’s not talk about the 1G era. There is nothing to argue about. The main reason is the 2G era that is going through and the 3G4G era in the future. The reason why 2G is mentioned is that after the emergence of 5G, 2G still exists.

Compared with many people in later generations, many people have discovered that sometimes our mobile phones are used, and if we encounter a place with poor signal, the signal network will continue to decline, jumping from 4G to 3G or even 2G.

Qualcomm mainly ruled in the 3G4G field, and it missed the 2G era in the previous life, which was controlled by Europe in the previous life.

At the beginning of digital communication, European countries realized that it would be difficult to compete with the United States technically by going it alone.

Therefore, not to be outdone by the United States, the European Union established a special mobile expert group to be responsible for the research on communication standards throughout Europe, and combined the communication capabilities of all European countries to successfully surpass the United States in the 2G field.

Europe's GSM communication technology is the communication standard in the European 2G era. Its core is time division multiple access technology, which is characterized in that one channel is evenly distributed to eight callers. channel time.

However, the capacity of GSM is too small. When users are overloaded, more base stations must be built. Although GSM has outstanding advantages, it is easy to deploy and uses a new digital signal code to replace the original analog signal. It also supports international roaming and provides The SIM card is convenient for users to still store personal data when changing mobile phones, and at the same time, it can send short messages with a length of more than 100 characters.

However, no matter how many advantages GSM has, it is difficult to cover up the shortcomings of small capacity. Therefore, in terms of choice, Yang Chen is still unwilling to adopt European GSM communication technology, because compared with Qualcomm's CDMA technology, the former is too far behind.

CDMA has more than ten times the capacity of GMS, and its security is better. However, Qualcomm's CDMA technology is not valued by the US market, so this later generation of patent rogue giants has not yet emerged.

In the future, 3G and 4G mobile phones, because the capacity of GSM in Europe is too small, it is difficult to bear the huge traffic impact, so it will be eliminated. Therefore, in Yang Chen's eyes, GSM can only be regarded as a transitional product, and there is no way to compare it with CDMA.

Yang Chen does things with the thinking of future generations, habitually likes to make long-term plans, since there are better ones available, why use something that is destined to be eliminated soon.

That's not only a waste of time, but also a waste of money.

Yang Chen's original intention was to directly acquire Qualcomm, but the founders of Qualcomm were not simple, and they were unwilling to be acquired. At the same time, the two sides did not agree on the cooperation of shares.

Therefore, Yang Chen could only slowly research by himself through the talents poached from Bell Labs, and at the same time let his Xiangjiang Telephone Company continue to expand the pager business.

The pager was originally produced by Bell Labs. The pager was researched 40 years ago. The pager sold by Xiangjiang Telephone Company is the latest product and is very popular in the market.

The Xiangjiang pager market is now completely monopolized by Yang Chen's Xiangjiang Telephone Company. Now Xiangjiang Telephone Company has expanded its business in Southeast Asia and the inland market.

However, the technical content of small gadgets such as pagers is too low, and there is too much competition in the market outside Xiangjiang and the inland. Signal towers, then pagers and cell phones are a piece of crap.

So, Yang Chen wanted to build his own 2G base station a long time ago. Now that it's done, Qualcomm has made concessions. Obviously, the American operators don't pay much attention to it, which made Qualcomm have other thoughts.

In the previous life, Qualcomm relied on South Korean operators to take off. Qualcomm helped South Korea, which has relatively weak mobile phone and communication technology, establish a 2G mobile communication foundation. change.

Due to the vigorous promotion of the South Korean government, the advantages of CDMA technology have also been infinitely expanded, and finally American operators began to pay attention to Qualcomm, which caused Qualcomm to soar from then on.

This generation of Qualcomm wants to rely on the Yang Chen consortium to take off. Although the Xiangjiang market is not as big as the South Korean market, its economic strength should not be underestimated. Telephone companies are not dominant in Southeast Asia, but they still occupy a large market share.

After a series of acquisitions by Boss Yang, Heung Kong Telephone Company is no longer what it used to be. At the same time, Heung Kong Telephone also has an entry ticket to enter the inland market, which means a huge market with a population of more than one billion. .

"30.00% of the shares, the largest private shareholder."

Seeing this share certificate, a smile appeared on the corner of Yang Chen's mouth.

but that's not the point

Yang Chen found another contract, the content is very simple, in short, Qualcomm and Xiangjiang Telephone Company will cooperate to build 2G base stations, and at the same time, they will still maintain the first partnership in higher fields in the future.

Obviously, the condition behind this contract is that Qualcomm is afraid that Yang Chen will kick them away after he finishes using them.

However, when Yang Chen saw this, he couldn't help laughing. Originally, he was worried that if he couldn't compete with Qualcomm, or to put it bluntly, if the U.S. government got down on him and restricted him, Xiangjiang Telephone Company What to do with 3G4G in the future.

It’s all right now, when the drowsiness came, someone gave me a pillow. For such behavior, I must be rewarded with a little red flower to support it.

Yuan Tianfan took out another contract at this time

"Boss, there is still a contract here."

"What else?" Yang Chen was surprised again.

Yuan Tianfan said with a smile: "The boss mentioned before that Qualcomm has agreed to limit Qualcomm's patent fees, and Qualcomm has also promised that the two companies can share patents in the future."

"let me see"

Yang Chen happily looked at the three contracts in his hand, and there was a way out. In the future in the communication field, even if his Xiangjiang Telephone Company could not keep pace with Qualcomm, it would not be exploited by Qualcomm.

Think about how awesome Apple is in the future. In the end, it’s not about obediently enduring Qualcomm’s exploitation. With these three contracts, this kind of thing won’t fall on him.

Chapter 970 Advance Layout

Seeing his boss's happy look, Yuan Tianfan was a little bit puzzled as to why his boss valued him so much for a company that had only been established for two years.

Although Yuan Tianfan believed in his boss' vision, with the current strength of Xiangjiang Telephone under the Yang Consortium, he believed that it would not take long to develop what his boss needed.

Now that Qualcomm has joined in, it is just a little earlier. From the agreement, Xiangjiang Telephone does not take much advantage or benefit.