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   Chapter 623

  Erthien feels a bit rich and powerful when he mentions this now, no longer like the angry little daughter-in-law when Alcatel mobile phone was not acquired.

The sales of Alcatel P1 has brought confidence to Eltien. From the beginning of sales to today, the global sales of Alcatel P1 has exceeded 5 million units. Even now other mobile phone manufacturers have launched products with similar functions to the P1. Mobile phones, but the monthly sales of P1 are still maintained at more than one million units, and the monthly turnover exceeds 500 million US dollars!

   And Alcatel's mobile phone business is not just selling mobile phones now, and earning money every day, what it brings to Ertian is naturally full of confidence.

   "When the time is right, I want to build the headquarters of Alcatel Mobile in the industrial park..."

When he said this, Ertian's eyes were carefully placed on Song Yang, wanting to see how Song Yang would react when he heard this, but after Song Yang heard it, his face was still as calm as usual, letting him Ertian was a little confused about Song Yang's thoughts.

  Construction of the headquarters, although it is considered a facade project, but if Alcatel Mobile wants to become a giant, a headquarters building is essential, and it will cost a lot of money to build.

   The headquarters building, to a certain extent, represents the brand image, and the new headquarters built by later generations of Apple actually also means this aspect.

   If Alcatel Mobile wants to build a new headquarters building, it must cost a lot of money to build it, and it needs Song Yang's consent.

   Song Yang didn't agree or object to Ertian's proposal, he just nodded calmly.

  Erthien put away his thoughts, "In the future, other facilities will be introduced around the Alcatel Mobile Industrial Park, including many supply chain manufacturers in America, who will relocate here to jointly develop products with Alcatel Mobile!"

   It is not uncommon for manufacturers of parts suppliers to relocate their companies to the vicinity of the gold owner. On the one hand, the building near the water can get the order in advance, and on the other hand, it also maintains the relationship with the gold owner.

Most suppliers of Alcatel mobile phone parts have this kind of thinking. Seeing that Alcatel mobile phones have become a new star in the mobile phone industry, there is a faint feeling of challenging Nokia and Motorola. !

  Song Yang entered the Alcatel Mobile Phone Industrial Park. Compared with before, there were obviously more people in the industrial park. The popularity of P1 made Alcatel Mobile Phone a recruiter, and more people poured into the Alcatel Mobile Phone Industrial Park.

   The mobile phone production department is not large. After all, the main production is completed by Yanjing. Alcatel mobile phones are in San Jose, mainly the Saipan system, software development, mobile phone design department, parts R&D department, etc.

After the design of the appearance, function and structure of the entire mobile phone is completed in San Jose, the parts requirements of the mobile phone are sent to the parts suppliers. The industrial park in Beijing completed the assembly.

  In addition to the mobile phone department, Panda TV, PA semiconductors, MP3 projects, TV set-top boxes, Fortinet hardware firewalls, etc., the research and development or production related to hardware products are all placed here.

This is also the reason why Ertien is eager to build a new R&D center. There are really too many people. In the second half of the year, or next year, after products such as Panda TV, MP3, and TV set-top boxes are put on sale, the required personnel will be available. More, in the entire mobile phone industry park, there are not so many places at all.

"It is estimated that by next month, the global sales of Alcatel P1 mobile phones will exceed 7 million units, and by Christmas, the global sales will reach 9 million units, but in the second half of the year, Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Ericsson and other brands will be released. The new mobile phone, I am afraid that the sales of P1 will further decline, and the goal of this year's Alcatel mobile phone is to break the sales mark of 10 million units!"

   After entering the office, Ertien immediately put several documents in front of Song Yang. This is the sales volume of the Alcatel P1 mobile phone this year, which can be said to have exploded.

   This sales volume can be said to be quite dazzling, far exceeding the expectations of Wall Street institutions, and good people have begun to put the name of "Machine King" on the P1 mobile phone.

  According to the expectations of Wall Street analysts, the Alcatel P1 can sell 5 million units this year, which is considered to have achieved the goal. Song Yang's acquisition of Alcatel mobile phone project has been a great success.

The restructured Alcatel mobile phone has become famous in the mobile phone world, and it can gain a foothold. What surprised Wall Street is that the sales volume of the P1 mobile phone seems to be just like its slogan, it has a long standby time, even if The sales in America began to decline, but overseas, the sales continued to be hot, and the sales of one million units per month were maintained abruptly!

Song Yang is not surprised by the sales volume of the P1. As the P1 is a replica of the Nokia 3310, not to mention selling 120 million units, selling 10 million units is definitely possible. Isn't the name of the machine emperor too worthless.

   "Don't stop the production line of P1. When next year, the price of P1 will start to drop and it will be sold to new regions. I hope that P1 will set a new mobile phone sales record for Alcatel mobile phones!"

Song Yang said to Ertien, this is basically the routine of Nokia, Motorola and other brands. After a mobile phone is released, it will be shown in various regions in turn. For example, the mobile phone sold to Yanjing may be for half a year, or even once. The old models released years ago are still expensive to sell with the idea of ​​clearing the inventory.

The release of the Alcatel P1, to a certain extent, is considered to stimulate the domestic mobile phone market, so that Nokia and Motorola will not dare to sell all the junk. With the P1 as a benchmark, at least domestic users can buy mobile phones. Much bigger.

But the routine still has to be learned. P1 will be sold in America, North America, Europe, China and other places first. After the sales decline, the price will be reduced and it will be sold in places where the economy is not very good. The mass production of the machine has already reduced the cost to a minimum. Even if a machine is sold for one hundred dollars in the end, it will be profitable to sell an extra one!

Eltien smiled. He is not unfamiliar with this kind of routine. Mobile phone manufacturers such as Nokia and Motorola have also played the same way. They rely on this method to establish a sales volume of the emperor for publicity and tell the outside world that their brands of mobile phones , is the most users in the world!

  Otherwise, where do the machines with sales of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions come from, it is actually a rationale to extend the release cycle with the cinema to boost the box office.

"In addition to the sales of mobile phones, Alcatel mobile phones have also sold 1.5 million batteries, more than 3.4 million sets of universal chargers, the rest of the screen, mobile phone case and other parts maintenance, etc. Alcatel mobile phone The revenue from spare parts and maintenance is also more than 150 million US dollars!”

  Universal chargers can sell so well, Ertien did not expect, it is just such a thing, since its launch, more than two million sets have been sold.

  You must know that all major brands of mobile phones come with chargers. At first glance, the universal mobile phone charger seems to be a chicken rib, but the fact is that the universal charger for Alcatel mobile phones is very popular.

   Even other users who did not buy Alcatel mobile phones went to the retail stores of America Telecom, or bought them on platforms such as Amazon and eBay.

  Alcatel mobile phones are not ready to make unscrupulous money, but mobile phone parts and maintenance costs are still unavoidable, making Alcatel mobile phones a big profit.

Even Ertien found that selling mobile phone parts seems to be more profitable than selling mobile phones. Just like a universal charger, just a piece of plastic plus a few iron sensors, the cost is only a few dollars. The official price of a Carter phone is $35, and if you sell a universal charger, you can earn at least $23 for an Alcatel phone. This is after the expenses of dealers, salespersons, advertisements, etc., or you can earn more!

"In terms of software, the Saipan system is not yet profitable, but Firefox browser, mobile games developed by Xue Leshan for P1, and some paid software launched can bring more than 4 million US dollars to Alcatel mobile phones every month. Knife revenue."

   The Saipan system is still in the promotion stage, and it is licensed to major mobile phone manufacturers for free. For the user experience, it does not dare to advertise at will, which makes the Saipan system still a loser.

   "This year, the Alcatel mobile phone is expected to have an annual revenue of about 5.3 billion US dollars and a profit of more than 1.8 billion US dollars!"

Eltien said that this is the best achievement for the brand of Alcatel mobile phone since its appearance. Although the revenue may be only a quarter of that of Nokia, for a new mobile phone brand, such a The results have surpassed a large number of technology companies.

Even Motorola's revenue is much higher than that of Alcatel mobile phones. Motorola's revenue is similar to Nokia's. It can earn more than 20 billion dollars a year. Explosion, Alcatel Mobile is holding the entire industry chain in its own hands!

   The most important thing is that this is only the first year after the reorganization of Alcatel mobile phones, and the P1 is only the first product released. Who would dare to say that next year, the P2 mobile phone will not surpass Motorola's sales? !

   "You and the staff of Alcatel Mobile have worked hard this year!"

Song Yang put down those reports and said to Ertian, there is no credit or hard work, so that the restructured Alcatel mobile phone can quickly start designing new mobile phones, and then start production, as well as publicity and promotion. The white hair on Ertian's head, he knew how his life was this year, "When the Alcatel Mobile Board of Directors will be held at the end of the year, all staff will be given due rewards!"

   "P2 phone, how are the preparations now!"

   (end of this chapter)