Chapter 1211 The Ten Billion Dollar Bet(1/2)
It was heard that Fang Chen didn't even know who he was, and the face of the old white man who came just now turned pale in an instant, almost like a zombie.
No, it looks like a vampire.
After all, there are no zombies in Europe and America.
"I am Abel Bart, the general manager of Motorola's China region."
The old white man stared at Fang Chen and said with an unkind expression.
"Oh, that's it."
Fang Chen suddenly understood.
Since he is the general manager of Motorola, he is naturally jealous of his enemies. It is not surprising that he has such an attitude.
But, to be honest, Fang Chen really felt like he was being besieged by the six sects at this time.
After all, he has deep grudges against each of these five companies.
Lucent, Ericsson, and Siemens were beaten up by him in the Wanmen program-controlled computers, and they were basically driven out of the Chinese stage, with huge losses in revenue and profits.
And Motorola is because of pagers.
It can be said that the Xiaolong pager got its position by stepping on Motorola's head, and Motorola has not taken back the position of the leader of pagers from him until now.
However, he heard that Motorola's new generation pager is about to be released, and it also supports text messaging and has a larger capacity than the Xiaolong S pager. The outer shell has also abandoned the black engineering plastic that has remained unchanged for thousands of years and replaced it with one.
A very thin, light and textured steel material.
It can be said that Motorola’s new pager is fully comparable to Qingtian’s Xiaolong pager.
But Fang Chen didn't care about this. Even if Motorola took over the position of the pager leader, with the release of the second generation Xiaolong pager, the position of the pager leader still belongs to him.
Ma Huateng has already led the pager project team and started the development of the second-generation Xiaolong pager three months ago.
It is expected to go on sale around June next year.
So, at most, everyone will take the lead for half a year.
For Motorola, a world-famous mobile communications company and the inventor of many modern communication devices such as pagers and mobile phones, he is already satisfied that Qingtian Communications can achieve this.
Rome wasn't built in a day, and fat people weren't built in one bite. Take your time and don't rush. Fang Chen has this patience.
As for Qualcomm, the only one that seemed to have no connection or enmity, as Arun Rao became the general manager of Qualcomm's Greater China region, the relationship was over.
The way Arun Rao looked at him, he almost wanted to eat him alive.
"It seems that you don't believe that Qingtian has developed the technical standard for 2.5G network?"
Fang Chen looked at everyone with a smile on his face, full of teasing.
"Probably, anyone who knows about the communications industry and mobile communications networks will probably not believe that a company like Qingtian Communications, which was established less than three years ago, can produce technical standards for 2.5G networks." Alan·
Rao said loudly first.
He especially emphasized the words "established less than three years ago".
Not to mention, no one in the world knows what the 2.5G network looks like and what goal it should be heading towards. Even if there is one, it should be Qualcomm.
The code division multiple access technology developed by Qualcomm is the key to future communication mobile networks, and even the key to the development of next-generation mobile communication networks.
It's just that the 3G network is still too difficult and out of reach, and it requires companies to put in a lot of effort to perfect it.
"I don't know if others believe it, but based on my understanding of mobile communications, I don't believe it." Abel Bart also said with disdain.
This is not just a simple venting of anger and hatred, but a kind of rational thinking.
On the pager, he can express his admiration for Qingtian and recognize Qingtian's ability. After all, Qingtian first made the high-speed wireless communication code and then used it to realize text messaging. For pagers, this is simply a breakthrough in the era.
great invention.
Even those who claim to be innovative scientists have no choice but to be impressed by many Motorola research and technical personnel and "cite" this feature in their next-generation pagers.
After all, today's pagers without text messaging functions are almost spurned by Chinese consumers, who find them difficult to use.
This kind of pager can only see the other party calling you. If you want to know the content of the other party's call, you need to find a phone to call back. For Chinese people, it is simply useless.
After all, with the text messaging function, the husband can know immediately about things like working overtime, socializing, picking up the children, selling vegetables, going to the hospital, and even taking a document upstairs.
All of a sudden, the efficiency and cost of communication between home and work have skyrocketed by countless times.
Not to mention that wearing the Xiaolong pager will save you face.
Especially those who bought the Xiaolong S pager, they all wanted to put the pager directly below their belly button and replace the belt buckle.
After all, only in this way can others discover his Xiaolong S pager at the first time.
Not to mention using the Xiaolong pager, you can also get a good reputation of supporting domestic production.
As for people from other countries, because they have never seen Xiaolong pagers, Motorola's sales have not been greatly affected.
However, as far as he knows, the phenomenon of some Chinese people smuggling Xiaolong pagers into other countries has gradually emerged.
Therefore, for Motorola, it is a top priority to develop a new generation of pagers as soon as possible.
After all, if Qingtian Communications is allowed to promote the production of pagers and have the ability to sell them to other countries, he has no doubt that Motorola's status and sales in pagers will collapse at the touch of a button and cease to exist in an instant just like in China.
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When he thought that Motorola's pagers were now seven hundred or eight hundred yuan cheaper than before, but the sales volume was not more than one-third of what it was before, Abel Butt hated Fang Chen with hatred.
"If you don't believe it, don't believe it. After all, I have no obligation to guide you. Otherwise, let's make a bet." Fang Chen spread his hands and said nonchalantly.
But when he said the last half of the sentence, a strange light suddenly flashed in Fang Chen's eyes.
"What bet?"
Arun Rao looked at Fang Chen with some vigilance.
After having dealt with Fang Chen for such a long time, he knew very well what kind of bad guy Fang Chen was and how weak and bad his style of doing things was.
If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, who would have thought that Fang Chen, the richest man in China and Russia, who plays a decisive role in both countries, would actually pretend to be a member of the Luozhou Post and Telecommunications Bureau. He is uneducated and arrogant by relying on his family connections.
The domineering second-generation deputy section chief.
At that time, Fang Chen, the deputy section chief, really played tricks on the people of Fujitsu, making the people of Fujitsu think that this deputy section chief Fang could help them kill Qingtian Communications.
But what about actually?
It wasn't until Qingtian Communications released the 04 machine and Fang Chen stood on the top of the podium to give a speech that people at Fujitsu finally knew that Deputy Section Chief Fang was Fang Chen.
It can be said that he has lost both his wife and his troops, and has lost everything in face.
Before the eight of them were completely defeated by Fang Chen, they used this incident to laugh at Mouri Koroku.
Such a person with no moral integrity and no limits suddenly wanted to bet with them. How could he not be vigilant?
"Bet, by this time next year, Qingtian Communications' 2.5G network will be completed, and it will be much easier to use than your junk." Fang Chen said with a smile.
But his expression, no matter how you look at it, makes you feel like Grandma Wolf is looking at Little Red Riding Hood.
Arun Rao and Abel Butt looked at each other, and then nodded at the same time.
Bet on it!
They didn't believe that Qingtian Communications could create a 2.5G network, or even that Qingtian Communications could create a 2G network, and they didn't think Fang Chen had any qualifications to call their mobile communication network rubbish.
Furthermore, I just mocked and disdained Qingtian Communications’ 2.5G network.
But when it came time to make a bet, he didn't dare.
If this isn't a slap in the face, what is it?
"That's no problem, what's the stake?" Abel Bart asked.
"No more, no less, just one billion U.S. dollars. If I lose, I will give you one billion U.S. dollars, or one billion U.S. dollars to one family. But if you lose, just one billion U.S. dollars to one family. If Lucent, Ericsson, Siemens
If you are interested in participating, you can, the conditions are the same." Fang Chen said with a smile.
Hearing this, Arun Rao couldn't help but take a breath and looked at Fang Chen in disbelief.
Crazy!
Such a high stake!
According to Fang Chen's wishes, the family would bet a billion dollars, and they even wanted to involve Ericsson and the other three families.
If calculated like this, if Fang Chen offers five billion US dollars and theirs offers five billion US dollars, then this is a bet of US$10 billion.
Such a shocking bet is absolutely unprecedented and unprecedented. How could they not be frightened?
Furthermore, they have no right to make such a huge bet of one billion dollars!
They are just the general managers of the China Region or the Greater China Region, and can only be regarded as middle-level cadres in the entire group company. Even the fee of one million US dollars needs to be reported to their superiors to apply for it.
To put it bluntly, one billion dollars, even the president and chairman of the head office would not have the courage to make such a bet.
After all, it is possible that their entire net worth is not as much as one billion US dollars.
No matter how you think about it, it seems impossible to imagine that you would have to put up a fortune that is more than your entire worth for the sake of a momentary dispute.
Once the bet loses, let alone such a loss, he cannot bear it, the president and chairman cannot bear it, not even the entire company can bear it.
Motorola and Lucent have huge businesses. If they lose this billion US dollars, they will lose 20% to 30% of the company's annual net profit.
To be continued...