Back To 1995

   Chapter 438

   In this conference center building, ICQ once held a product launch here, which opened the "social era" of the Internet industry. This is also the birthplace of the American Internet Society, where the first American Internet Conference was held.

Not surprisingly, the Internet 230 Act, which will be passed on Capitol Hill within a month, 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 an important meeting is held, the location is placed in this building, making the San Jose Convention Center more and more symbolic, and many people have begun to tout that this is the Holy Land of the Internet industry...

  Alcatel mobile phone, at a price of 3.5 million US dollars per year, won the naming rights of the conference center, which is the same as the routine of those companies naming basketball stadiums and football stadiums, all for publicity.

It's just that the purpose is different. Those companies that name the sports stadium are for publicity to fans, while Alcatel Mobile, naming this conference center, is more to expand its influence in the industry, or to improve Bigger, Jun I can't see the conference center in the center of Silicon Valley, all with the LOGO of Alcatel mobile phone?!

  Alcatel Mobile won the naming rights of the conference center for five years, but only paid cash for two years. If there is a problem in the future, Alcatel Mobile can run away, but if you play like that, your reputation will be rotten.

  In the conference center building, there are already many people who have been invited. In the lounge, Motorola President Sandel led the people. As soon as they arrived at the conference center, they met an "old friend".

   The so-called enemies met, and they were extremely jealous. Seeing Ollila and Sandel who met, the rest of the people in the lounge had a feeling of undercurrents surging.

   The current Ollila of Nokia, who established the Nokia dynasty, surpassed Motorola in sales of Nokia mobile phones, and sat on 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. Before Ollila took over Nokia, the first two presidents of Nokia, one because of performance pressure, directly chose to use a bullet to find shortsightedness. A man who worked for three years, rolled up the bed and left, and abruptly turned the position of Nokia's president into a high-risk occupation.

At that time, Nokia was not as magical as the autobiography said, with a brilliant vision, sold all irrelevant businesses, and then took off from the ground, but because the losses were too bad, they were able to sell it as a fortune. 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 like it, so it 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. Through major mergers and acquisitions, it has entered the telecommunications, paper, chemical, pharmaceutical, natural gas and even weapons research and development industries, but not All of them are Welch from General Electric, and they can still play with them after buying them, but Nokia will get rid of them, and the losses are horrific.

Ollila, who has become the president of Nokia, seems to have a lot of cards in his hand, but it is a bad card. There is not one card that can be played, and the card in the mobile phone business can be regarded as a good point, although it is not as good as Ericsson, Motorola, etc., but finally a card.

After the stud mobile phone business, Ollila took less than five years to lead Nokia to become the overlord of the global mobile phone industry, and Ollila naturally became famous and was considered to be the top professional manager in the world. Erqi is at the same level.

   But the more outstanding Nokia's performance is, the more embarrassing it is 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 dominant mobile phone for more than ten years.

  Nokia's market value has reached a new high in recent years, and now it has exceeded 198 billion euros, much higher than the current Motorola.

After    Sandel and Ollila met, they were obviously stunned for a while, and then they didn't quarrel with each other as expected by others in the lounge, and even performed Quanwu Xing or something, but they both behaved very gracefully.

   "President Sandel!"

  Ollila was quite graceful and took the lead in reaching out to Sandel, but Ollila's "peaceful" attitude made Sandel smell provocative.

   He has long heard that Ollila is good at dealing with challenges. Back then, there was a lot of mourning inside Nokia, and they were all singing badly about Nokia. Only Ollila was still optimistic about Nokia.

   And without any warning, the Nokia board of directors, with a smell of "broken jars", promoted Ollila to become the president of Nokia and asked him to save Nokia.

Ollila's character can be seen from some rumors. When he was on vacation by a lake in Helsinki, when Ollila's daughter asked him if he dared to jump, it was just a joke. , but Ollila, who is very strong by nature and likes to challenge, jumped into the lake on the spot, one can imagine what kind of character Ollila is.

   Sandel frowned, but still had a smile on his face, "President Ollila, long time no see!"

   After the two shook hands firmly, they let go, but they both glanced at each other and didn't talk anymore, but went to a corner of the lounge in a tacit understanding.

   didn't talk too fast, although the fight between Nokia and Motorola was broken, but this time Ollila and Sandel met, but they didn't expose each other's scars.

   "Albat mobile phone, is it related to Nokia?"

Sandel naturally understands what he and Ollila are doing sitting here. Today's mobile phone communication conference held by Alcatel Mobile is obviously not good. He needs to determine Ollila's attitude before he can make compliance later. Motorola's interest decision, at this time, it's useless to talk to Olila, and it may not be able to talk to each other, who makes Nokia phones sell more than Motorola...

Ollila shook his head. He heard the meaning of Sandel's words. The Alcatel P1 mobile phone is vaguely designed in the style of Nokia. Now the styles of major mobile phones are distinct. The outsiders may be a little confused, but the insiders are a little confused. Just by looking at it, you can tell which company designed the phone.

  Alcatel mobile phone, although the design of the mobile phone that has been on the market is somewhat different, but it has a bit of Nokia's shadow, so Sandel can't help but wonder if the Alcatel mobile phone is deliberately supported by Nokia, disgusting Motorola.

   shook his head, Ollila said decisively, "Alcatel mobile phone has nothing to do with Nokia, and that P1 mobile phone is not designed by Nokia!"

   The P1 phone was also analyzed by Nokia, and even Ollila had doubts whether this was the next generation of Nokia’s new mobile phone design, but Ollila was disappointed by the result.

   Hearing Ollila's words, Sandel was both fortunate and a headache. Fortunately, Alcatel mobile phones have nothing to do with Nokia, but the headache is that Motorola may have to meet a real opponent in America.

   "This time, Alcatel Mobile may launch some agreements in the mobile phone industry for all major mobile phone manufacturers to accept!"

   Sandel revealed to Ollila the news that Motorola had inquired. As a local snake in America, it was not difficult for Motorola to inquire about this news.

Ollila also said to Sandel very politely, "I think Motorola should stand with Nokia when it comes to the standards and rules of the mobile phone industry, maintain the order of the mobile phone industry, and prevent the mobile phone industry from turbulent. For the benefit of mobile phone users around the world..."

  Nokia and Motorola hold a large number of mobile phone patents, technologies and standards in their hands, and they are the world's largest and second largest mobile phone manufacturers. Standing together, they determine the mobile phone market pattern to a certain extent.

No matter how good the fight between Nokia and Motorola is, the two of them understand that they can't afford the third child. The two of them fight, no matter if they win or lose, at least they can survive. Say, it's really too bad.

   "Of course, Motorola has an obligation, together with Nokia, to maintain the order of the mobile phone industry!"

Seeing Ollila and Sandel in the lounge, they talked for a while in the corner, and then got up and shook hands again. The representatives of other mobile phone brands in North America, such as Ericsson and Sony, who were invited today, saw this scene and knew that Nokia With Motorola, I am afraid that some kind of agreement has not been reached!

   Today is called a mobile phone and mobile communication conference, which sounds tall, but in fact, there are only a dozen companies invited, which cannot be placed in a hall that can accommodate thousands of people, and can only be selected in a conference room.

  Song Yang, Ertian, Dobble from PA Semiconductor, and several executives of Alcatel Mobile entered the meeting place, and there were already many people sitting inside.

When the companies in the conference room saw Song Yang, they all had different expressions. Some were curious and some were obviously opposed. Only the people from the Telephone and Telegraph Group and the French Alcatel Telecom Group, when they saw Song Yang and others, A smile appeared on his face.

  Song Yang was the first to greet Sandel, a local snake, "President Sandel, I heard about Motorola's "Iridium Project", which will be a miracle in the history of science and technology, and global communications will enter a new era!"

As soon as he came up, Song Yang gave Motorola's **** "Iridium Project" and touted it again. Motorola announced that it plans to invest 6.4 billion US dollars to complete the entire project. This is a big melon in the technology industry this year. After the announcement, all major media began to report, and the touts were endless. 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, were all on the platform for Motorola.

   But unlike the flowers and applause from these public opinions, Motorola's stock price fell in a mess.

   This made Sandel, for a while, wonder if Song Yang was really touting the "Iridium Project" or was just saying the opposite.

"Really," Sandel glanced at Song Yang with a half-smile, and a sentence made Song Yang's smile freeze on his face, "I heard that the North American Global Investment Fund in your hands, Song, is keen to invest in high In the technology industry, the "Iridium Star Project" can accept investment from the North American Investment Foundation!"

   (end of this chapter)