Chapter 438
Chapter 438 Leading the King into the Pit
In this conference center building, ICQ once held a product launch conference here, which opened the "social era" of the Internet industry. It is also the birthplace of the American Internet Association and held the first Internet conference in America.
Not surprisingly, the Internet 230 Act, which will be passed on Capitol Hill within a few months, was also born here. San Jose is the center of Silicon Valley, and this conference center is also the center of Silicon Valley. Now there are many Internet companies in Silicon Valley , when important meetings are held, the venue is placed in this building, making this San Jose Convention Center more and more symbolic. Many people began to tout that this is the holy place of the Internet industry...
Alcatel mobile phone won the naming rights of the conference center at a price of 3.5 million US dollars per year. This is the same as those companies naming basketball stadiums and football stadiums. It is all for publicity.
It's just that the purpose is different. The companies that name the sports stadium are to promote to the fans, while Alcatel Mobile named the conference center more to expand its influence in the industry, or to improve Bigger, Mr. Didn't you see the Alcatel mobile phone logo hanging in the conference center in the center of Silicon Valley?!
Alcatel mobile phone won the naming right of the conference center for five years, but only paid cash for two years. If there is a problem in the future, Alcatel mobile phone can run away, but if you play like that, your reputation will be bad.
In the conference center building, there were already many invited people. When they arrived in the lounge, Motorola President Sandor led the people. As soon as they arrived at the conference center, they met an "old friend".
The so-called meeting of enemies makes them extremely jealous. Looking at Ollila and Sandor who met, and the rest of the people in the lounge, there is a feeling of undercurrents.
Ollila in front of me is the current president of Nokia, Ollila, who established the Nokia dynasty, surpassed Motorola in sales of Nokia mobile phones, and took the throne of the global mobile phone empire!
It can be said that Ollila was ordered to help the building and save Nokia from the fire and water. Before Ollila took over Nokia, one of the former two Nokia presidents directly chose to commit suicide with a bullet because of performance pressure. The one who had worked for three years and left, forcibly turned the position of Nokia's president into a high-risk occupation.
At that time, Nokia was not as miraculous as the autobiography said. It had a good vision and insight, sold all irrelevant businesses, and then took off on flat ground. All sold.
As for the mobile phone business, Nokia's board of directors also wanted to sell it at that time, but Ericsson didn't think much of it, so they didn't make a deal and kept it.
When Ollila took over Nokia, it was a big mess. Nokia has many businesses, which can be said to be comparable to the current General Electric. Everyone is General Electric's Welch, and they can still play after buying it, but Nokia is sold off, and the loss is terrible.
Ollila, who became the president of Nokia, seems to have a lot of cards in his hand, but it is a bad one. There are no cards that can be played. The mobile phone business card is still good, although it is not as good as Ericsson, Motorola, etc., but finally a card.
After the stud mobile phone business, Ollila led Nokia to become the global leader in the mobile phone industry in less than five years. Naturally, Ollila is also famous and is considered the world's top professional manager. The kind that is at the same level as Erqi.
But the more outstanding Nokia's performance, the more embarrassing it will be for other peers. It was surpassed by a mobile phone brand in just a few years. The most embarrassing thing is Motorola, which has been the overlord of mobile phones for more than ten years.
In the past few years, Nokia's market value has hit a new high, and now it has exceeded 198 billion euros, much higher than the current Motorola.
After Sandor and Ollila met, they were obviously stunned for a moment, and then they didn't behave like other people in the waiting room expected.
"President Sandor!"
Ollila was quite graceful, and took the lead in reaching out to Sandor, but Ollila's "peaceful" attitude made Sandor smell a provocation.
He has heard of Ollila for a long time, and he is good at coping with challenges. At that time, Nokia's internal wailing was everywhere, and everyone was bad-mouthing Nokia. Only Ollila was still optimistic about Nokia.
Without any warning, Nokia's board of directors promoted Ollila to become the president of Nokia and asked him to save Nokia.
Regarding Ollila's character, we can see the clues from some rumors. When Ollila's daughter asked him if he dared to jump off a lake in Helsinki, it was just a joke. , but Ollila, who has a strong nature and likes challenges, jumped into the lake on the spot. One can imagine Ollila's character.
Sandor frowned, but still smiled, "President Ollila, long time no see!"
After the two shook hands vigorously, they let go. They just glanced at each other and didn't talk anymore, but went to a corner of the lounge in a tacit understanding.
They didn't speak quickly. Although the fight between Nokia and Motorola had broken their brains, this time Ollila and Sandor did not expose each other's scars when they met.
"Albat mobile phone, is it related to Nokia?"
Sandor naturally understands what he and Ollila are doing sitting here. The mobile communication conference held by Alcatel Mobile today is obviously not well-attended. He needs to confirm Ollila's attitude before he can make a suitable decision later The decision of Motorola's interests, at this time, it is useless to argue with Oli, and it may not be possible to win over the other party, who makes Nokia sell more mobile phones than Motorola...
Ollila shook his head. He heard what Sandor said. The Alcatel P1 mobile phone vaguely has a style designed by Nokia. Nowadays, all major mobile phones have distinctive styles. Outsiders may still be a little confused, but insiders Just by looking at it, you can tell which company designed the phone.
Alcatel mobile phone, although the design is somewhat different from the mobile phones that are already on the market, but it has a bit of Nokia's shadow, so Sandel can't help but wonder whether the Alcatel mobile phone is deliberately supported by Nokia to disgust Motorola.
Shaking his head, Ollila said decisively, "The Alcatel mobile phone has nothing to do with Nokia, and the P1 mobile phone is not designed by Nokia!"
Nokia was also analyzing the P1 mobile phone, and even Ollila had doubts about whether it was Nokia's next-generation new mobile phone design, but the result disappointed Ollila.
Hearing Ollila's words, Sandor was both glad and had a headache. Fortunately, the Alcatel mobile phone had nothing to do with Nokia, but the headache was that Motorola might face a real rival in America.
"This time, Alcatel Mobile may launch some agreements in the mobile phone industry, so that all major mobile phone manufacturers can accept it!"
Sandor revealed to Ollila the news that Motorola had inquired about. As the head snake of America, it was not difficult for Motorola to inquire about this information.
Ollila also said to Sandor very well, "I think that when it comes to mobile phone industry standards and rules, Motorola should stand with Nokia to maintain order in the mobile phone industry and prevent turmoil in the mobile phone industry. For the benefit of global mobile phone users..."
Nokia and Motorola hold a large number of mobile phone patents, technologies, and standards in their hands, and are the world's largest and second largest mobile phone manufacturers. Their standing together determines the structure of the mobile phone market to a certain extent.
No matter how hard Nokia and Motorola fight, the two also understand one thing, that is, they can't make the third one cheaper. The two of them fight, no matter whether they win or lose, at least they can survive. Say, it's really too bad.
"Of course, Motorola is obliged, together with Nokia, to maintain order in the mobile phone industry!"
Seeing Ollila and Sandor in the lounge, talking for a while in the corner, and then getting up to shake hands again, representatives of Ericsson, Sony and other mobile phone brands in North America who were invited today, seeing this scene, all know Nokia With Motorola, I am afraid that some kind of agreement has been reached!
Today it is said that it is a mobile communication conference, which sounds grand, but in fact, there are only a dozen companies invited, and it is impossible to put it in a hall that can accommodate thousands of people, and can only choose to be in a conference room.
Song Yang and Elthian, as well as PA Semiconductor's Doble Poole and several directors of Alcatel Mobile, entered the place where the meeting was held, and there were already many people sitting inside.
All the companies in the conference room had different expressions when they saw Song Yang, some were curious and some were obviously resistant. Only the people from Telephone and Telegraph Group and Alcatel France Telecom Group, when they saw Song Yang and others, A smile appeared on his face.
Song Yang first greeted Sander, the tyrant, "President Sander, I heard about Motorola's "Iridium Project". This will be a miracle in the history of science and technology, and global communication will enter a new era!"
As soon as he came up, Song Yang touted Motorola's "Iridium Project", which had invested a lot of money. Motorola announced that it planned to invest 6.4 billion dollars to complete the entire project. This is a big melon in the technology industry this year. After the announcement, the major media began to report, and there were endless praises, such as a pearl in the history of science and technology, events that changed the era of human communication, etc., and even the deputy commander of the Federation, all stood for Motorola.
However, unlike the flowers and applause in these public opinions, Motorola's stock price has fallen in a mess.
This made Sandor wonder for a while whether Song Yang was really touting the "Iridium Project" or was talking ironically.
"Really?" Sandor glanced at Song Yang with a half-smile, and his smile froze on Song Yang's face with one sentence, "I heard that the North American Global Investment Fund in your hands is willing to invest in high-quality funds. In the technology industry, the "Iridium Project" can accept investment from the North American Investment Foundation!"
(end of this chapter)