20 years of restarting life

Chapter 2623 The low speed dilemma of RIM 6230

The current stock price of Nortel Networks is less than 8 US dollars. This valuation is obviously ridiculously low. Just like BlackBerry's 2.8 US dollars, it has basically reached the limit of no fall.

At this time, you just need to be brave enough to attract funds, and at the same time, be careful not to increase the leverage indiscriminately to avoid being liquidated. Hold it honestly for a year, and wait until next year when the global Internet industry begins to gradually recover. Zhao Changan estimates It is very likely that Nortel Networks' stock price will rise to 30-40 US dollars, with a high probability of exceeding 300% of huge profits.

But Zhao Changan looked at Qi Peng's expression. He was obviously impatient to earn such slow money, and he probably wouldn't invest even half a million yuan in the end.

Of course, this doesn't matter. From his position, Zhao Changan can give Qi Peng a little guidance, but if he is willing to be an elm head, it is also his own business.

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The next morning, Zhao Changan, Zhou Kexin, and Jin Chenxiao drove to Waterloo to officially start cooperation negotiations with BlackBerry.

Mike and Doug participated on behalf of BlackBerry.

This time, in order to confirm the correctness of his judgment, Zhao Changan let Mike see Jim's plan. In the initial statement of the negotiation, he told BlackBerry that he no longer asked to cooperate in building a large R&D center in Pearl, but only sought to build a large R&D center in China. A joint venture to establish a real large-scale mobile phone and PAD manufacturing factory, as well as a nationwide mobile phone marketing network.

The total investment of the project is expected to be no less than 2 billion RMB.

"Why such a large investment is needed? The number of mobile phone users in China was 4329.6 million the year before last, and the number of mobile phones at the end of last year was 8453.3 million. As of the end of June, this number was refreshed again, reaching 6 million, ranking second in the world. There is only less than 1.1386 units behind the US, which ranks first. I have every reason to believe that when the statistics come out at the end of this month, the latest data on China’s mobile phone ownership will surpass that of the US and become the world’s number one. However, this is just the beginning! "

Zhao Changan didn't waste any time and started his speech-style brainwashing: "With the improvement of China's people's economy, the price of mobile phones has become more affordable. It is conservatively estimated that in the next three years, the number of mobile phones owned by the Chinese people will exceed 3 billion. Moreover, mobile phones are updated very quickly. Even if a mobile phone is replaced every three years conservatively, the annual demand for mobile phones will reach 3 million. Calculated based on the average price of 1 yuan, it is 1500 billion!

And this does not include the sales of personal PADs, especially since the PAD market is still a niche market in China, but Vision’s sales will not be less than 5000 million units within three years. In other words, in the next three years, only the PAD industry will , the total sales in China will not be less than 2000 billion, with an average of 700 billion per year!

This is a huge market with a total of 2000 billion. If BlackBerry still plans to follow Nortel, Tianyue Group, and Heavy Chemical Group, then BlackBerry’s positioning and ambition for the Chinese market obviously do not match the goal of One Nano . A joint venture to build a factory, and a total investment of at least billion, is the bottom line for One Nano. "

Then Zhao Changan began to seduce Mike and Doug again: "With BlackBerry's technological capabilities and One Nano's excellent marketing capabilities in China, even if I set the target low enough, 15% of the total market share. In one year's time , only the Chinese market can bring total sales of no less than 300 billion RMB to the company.”

Hearing Mike's breathing quicken and his face full of excitement, he just had to sign a contract with Zhao Changan immediately to create a future together.

Doug next to him still looked calm. Mike was obsessed with technology and didn't care about the specific operations of the company. Of course, he didn't know the many troubles and difficulties BlackBerry was facing now.

The global sales of RIM 6230 are very weak due to the market squeeze of Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, Philips, Siemens, Alcatel, and even second-tier small brands Sagem and Samsung.

One of the most important reasons for this is that these first- and second-tier brands have more than a dozen mobile phone models, and several models are updated and iterated every year, with more and more powerful functions, more dazzling shapes, and new technological elements. Add to capture consumers’ attention. Let’s look at the RIM 6230, a mobile phone launched at the end of the year before last. It overly pursued those black technologies and despised more functions, as well as its ordinary appearance and high price. It has been almost two years until now. The entire BlackBerry mobile phone On the manufacturing line, what is produced is still the same RIM 6230!

Strictly speaking, the global sales volume of RIM 6230 so far is less than units, especially in the past few months, the monthly sales volume has been less than units, almost in the sunset zone of a product.

However, until now, Mike still has not come up with the next generation RIM replacement concept machine!

As for the 125 million Xinyu 180 sold in China, a large number of castrated versions of the low-profile 'RIM 6230' were produced at the request of Tianyue Future.

Last year, Mike and Jim had a big quarrel because of this matter, but in the end the market and capital had their say, and technology had to give way.

This is why after Tianyue Future decided to develop a diamond phone, an extremely angry Mike gave Jim an ultimatum: Either BlackBerry would withdraw its shares from Tianyue Future, or he and Jim would break up.

Including Doug's wife and children, they are unwilling to use the 'old antique' RIM 6230, let alone the potential buyers of the mobile phone.

BlackBerry's PAD sales are still in a stable state, but like the RIM 6230, the PAD's customers are still positioned as 'business people and political dignitaries'.

As a result, there are currently less than 6230 units in the world. Including RIM , the total registered users are less than . Currently, they are mainly concentrated in the United States and Canada, and almost no one uses it in other regions.

It can be said that although BlackBerry is also relatively well-known in the high-tech field of Internet communications, its product inventory and annual sales are less than a fraction of those of large companies such as Nokia.

This is why last year, when faced with Tianyue Future's castration request, Mike refused to agree. Jim made the decision despite Mike's pressure, which resulted in brilliant sales of 125 million units.

Although the sales of these 125 million Xinyu 180 units did not bring any commendable profits to BlackBerry, it did allow a large number of suppliers in Canada to provide components for the RIM 6230. They made a lot of money and were more willing to cooperate with BlackBerry while improving their performance. BlackBerry's share price.

In other words, BlackBerry simply does not have enough money to set up factories overseas. In addition, the castrated version of RIM 6230 probably has no sales market in China, and the complete high-end version of RIM 6230 does not have the authority to build a service center in China. It's a complete dead end.

The same is true for PAD. Its most important and most competitive core selling point of BlackBerry, 'PushMail email, bes and bis wireless data link', is simply a brick in China, and its only purpose is to increase manufacturing costs. So The fate of this PAD in the Chinese market is also conceivable.

So Doug always believed that Jim was right, while his friend Mike was a complete business fool who only knew technology.

As for Zhao Changan, just like Jim, Doug was also confused and confused. He was not an idiot, but what on earth did he want to do after he was still going back and forth like this?