20 years of restarting life

Chapter 2041 Negotiations
The convenience of the Internet is the transmission of pictures and texts thousands of miles away, which can be reached in a short time without the need for a plane to rush.

On the same day, Yinan sent the finalized mobile phone appearance design here to the mobile phone R&D department of Alcatel's French R&D center.

The reason why I didn't send a copy to Pearl's Asia-Pacific R&D center at the same time is because the entire Asia-Pacific R&D center has not yet completed the relocation from Sydney to Pearl. Completed, let alone reorganized the structure, and entered the normal research and development work.

Even in Zhao Changan's estimation, it is very likely that the Alcatel Research and Innovation Center of Pearl Bell will not be able to complete all the relocation work between the two places by next year.

In the words of praise, this is derived from the rigor of the Europeans, but in reality, it is just doing things in ink, and the response is slow.

Of course, it is very likely that there is still a deeper waiting and game. Last October at the World Telecom Exhibition in Geneva, Chu Luke had a discussion with the leaders of the Ministry of Information Industry and expressed the hope that the Bell Group Alcatel will have a weak majority of shares.

At this time, Bell was divided into Pearl Bell and Pearl Bell Mobile Communication System Co., Ltd. The company's assets were mainly concentrated in the former, while the latter had very few assets and almost no substantive industry in China. At present, the main business is to import Al from foreign mobile phone factories. Carter's complete machine is sold domestically, and he acts as a middleman to earn the difference.

Last year, more than 301 mobile phones were sold in China, and before September this year, with the hot sales of OT500 series, couple phones OT700 and OT[-], the sales of the whole phone has exceeded [-].

When One Nano and Alcatel formed a joint venture before, Bell also proposed that the contract could be signed by Bell and One Nano, or by Pearl Bell Mobile Communications Systems Co., Ltd. and One Nano, but it was signed by Alcatel and One Nano. Both refused.

Alcatel holds 31.65% of Bell's shares, the Belgian Kingdom's Cooperation and Development Foundation holds 8.35%, totaling 39%, and China holds 61%.

If Alcatel agrees, it means that it will reduce the actual shareholding of the joint venture company from 49% to 15.5%. As an old western industrial company, France ranks first. The surrounding hungry wolves, fierce tigers, violent bears, poisonous eagles, and the hawks ate up everything.

After Chuluke's request was reported to the Ministry of Information Industry, it was approved by the above not long ago, and a Chinese negotiating team for Bell's shareholding restructuring was specially set up.

The last time Chu Luke visited China, the first stop was Yanjing, where he met with this newly established negotiating team and agreed on some preliminary matters in the subsequent negotiations between the two negotiating teams.

If this negotiation can go smoothly, it will definitely be a huge benefit for Alcatel. However, since it is a negotiation, it means that there are differences. No one can guarantee that the negotiation will be successful. If it fails, it will definitely be a big deal. hit.

The mobile phone joint venture is a sincerity of Alcatel.

It is also Alcatel's sincerity to relocate the Asia-Pacific R&D Center to Pearl.

The joint venture company is held by Alcatel and has nothing to do with Bell, so Alcatel hopes to build it against time to make up for the embarrassment and unwillingness that Alcatel can only have a sip of hot soup in the face of such a huge emerging market as China. .

But for the relocation of the Asia-Pacific R&D center, there is no need to be so active.

200 people is a scale, and 2000 people is also a scale. It is not impossible to even set up a Sydney-Pearl dual R&D center.

This can all be determined in subsequent negotiations.

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When One Nano sent the pictures and texts of the appearance of the mobile phone R&D design to the headquarters of Alcatel R&D Center, it received a reply from the other party the next day.

The wording is not very harsh, but it is not very pleasant.

First, pointing out that the one-nanometer design department is sloppy and eager for quick success. This so-called "efficient completion" is completely irresponsible to the work.

Although the design of the mobile phone case is the design with the lowest technical content, it should not have been finalized in just ten days.

Moreover, during the period, there was no back-and-forth communication with the technical director of the flip phone R&D project team of the R&D center to confirm that the layout of the design can be realized with the current technical means.

Just like the built-in antenna, so far the OT511 project team of Alcatel R&D Center has not found an optimal antenna embedded layout, which can achieve a reasonable Inlaid, design OT501 model.

In this regard, Alcatel's research and development capabilities are far inferior to Nokia's. Three years ago, Nokia launched the 9110i hidden antenna mobile phone.

OT501和OT502，以及OT701，是目前阿尔卡特正在热卖的情侣机OT500和OT700的升级版本。

As for the OT511, which has not even been released as a concept phone, Alcatel's mobile phone decision makers decided to temporarily put aside the upgrade of OT701, liberating OT501 from the bundled sales of couple phones, and becoming a single mainstream model.

And the MotorolTimeport P7389i, the world's first GPRS mobile phone, the L2000, the first tri-band mobile phone, and Palm 328C, V998, A6188, V100, CD928+, iDN i1000 Plus, and Nokia's 8810, 8210, and 7110——in Zhao Changan's view, It is simply Don Quixote's toughness.

So the Alcatel OT511 project team is still having a headache about how to build the antenna of the mobile phone into the bar phone. Zhao Changan actually opened his mouth to hide the antenna of the flip phone into the phone beyond the times.

The second is the design of putting a flashlight in the mobile phone. The engineers in the R&D center looked at it with contempt and ridicule. A luxury that costs thousands of dollars needs to be equipped with a small flashlight that can be bought for a few dollars. what?

And in the reply letter, there are some sarcastic suggestions, saying "When the sale starts, it is suggested that the joint venture company give each customer a small flashlight for free, so that they will not fall down at night when the road conditions are bad and the power is lacking outdoors." '

In the end, he bluntly said in the reply letter that since the mobile phone design department of One Nano is not good at communicating with the clamshell phone project department of the R&D center, it will wait for the R&D center to come up with the main body of the prototype, and then One Nano It is enough to design a jacket based on this main body here.

The implication is that Zhao Changan, Xia He, and Jing Yongwei's team have been busy for more than ten days without sleeping and eating. There is no need to look at the results. Carefully study and discuss whether it is suitable for the current combination of flip phones, because that Totally 'wasting our time'.

Zhao Changan didn’t get angry after reading this reply letter. It’s okay for the arrogant foreign devils in the West and Europe to have a prejudice against the abilities of the Chinese. Isn’t this creating opportunities for the rise of Chinese companies? Why should their prejudice and ignorance be corrected? .

However, he patiently replied to the other side.

(End of this chapter)