Chapter 689 Potential Crisis
"In order to describe in detail the advantages of CDMA over the first-generation FDMA analog signal technology and the second-generation TDMA digital signal technology, we made a model similar to a cocktail party. If each communication channel of the operator is compared to a field For a social cocktail party," Corner Manor, Irving Jacob couldn't wait to sell Qualcomm's CDMA technology to Eric during the meal: "A 'cocktail party' in the form of FDMA, at the same time only Allowing two guests to have a one-on-one conversation, the communication efficiency of this technical form is extremely low; the 'cocktail party' of the TDMA mode allows multiple guests to communicate with the interactive object in turn at the same time, although the communication channel is improved. However, in fact, at each simple time point, only one user can be allowed to speak. Our CDMA mode 'cocktail party' completely breaks this limitation, allowing multiple groups of communication objects to use at the same time. Different 'languages' communicate, therefore, with this more efficient utilization of communication bandwidth, the cost of building a mobile communication network using CDMA technology will be much lower than the second-generation digital signal technology. …≦fiction. …≦fiction”
There were four men, three women and seven people sitting on both sides of the long table in the restaurant. Eric, Chris and others were all listening carefully to Owen Yabbug's story, as long as the little girl seemed a little absent-minded, but Owen Yabug's easy-to-understand description also made her easily accept the advantages of CDMA. Looking at Eric who nodded slightly beside her, Xiao Nizi blinked her eyes, pretended to be curious, and asked with a serious expression. : "Mr. Jacob, since CDMA is better than... well, the other two technologies are superior, why did AT-T choose GSM as the technical standard?"
Eric turned his head and glared at the little girl who was interrupting at random, but he didn't blame anything, but looked at Owen Jacob.
Owen Jabug did not become embarrassed by this question at all, and explained with a smile: "Miss Drew, you paused for a while, you must have some doubts about the terms I said. Please allow me to explain for you. The full name of GSM is Global System for Mobile Communications, which is a more mature digital communication technology developed on the basis of the second-generation TDMA digital technology. There are many reasons for AT-T to choose GSM technology, among which GSM technology is more efficient than CDMA technology. Early maturity and commercialization are also the most important aspects. AT-T has very strong capital. They don't need to care about the construction cost of mobile communication networks, so they will choose the GSM technology that has been widely promoted. CDMA technology has so far not had any A mature commercial network is also our biggest disadvantage. However, Qualcomm has accumulated ten years of R&D experience in CDMA technology, and we are very confident that CDMA technology is now very mature. As long as we can get a commercial opportunity, we will definitely Can prove to everyone the superiority of CDMA."
Owen Jacob said finally, but his eyes fell on Eric.
Eric did not immediately meet some of Owen Jacob's expectations, but said, "Owen, do you know Nokia?"
Owen Jacob's expression changed slightly. He certainly knew that Nokia, a manufacturer of communication equipment and mobile phones that had risen rapidly from the brink of bankruptcy,
Dao: "If I remember correctly, Nokia's controlling shareholder is an overseas company called Hawaii Fund, which is an overseas investment fund established by Firefly Investments."
Eric nodded, his original purpose of setting up the Hawaii Fund. It is to avoid the high corporate income tax in the United States by withholding Nokia's future profits overseas, as Apple did. This tax avoidance method is completely legal, so Eric did not deliberately conceal from the outside world that Firefly's investment was actually is the information of the controlling shareholder of Nokia.
Noticing that there was a hint of doubt in Owen Jacob's expression, Eric could roughly guess what the other party was thinking.
In the past two years, Nokia has developed into one of the leading manufacturers of communication equipment and mobile phones in Europe. Its strength is second only to Ericsson, but the gap is getting smaller and smaller, and there are even signs of overtaking. In addition to the huge amount of development funds injected by Firefly, the reason why Nokia has risen rapidly in just over two years is the technical layout of Nokia ahead of other communication manufacturers in GSM and the rapid popularization of GSM technology. GSM technology can be said to be the foundation of Nokia's rise. However, although GSM technology has been widely popularized in Europe and Asia, it is in the initial stage of development in North America. Although AT-T, the largest telecommunications giant in North America, has determined GSM as its main mobile communication technology standard, the construction of AT-T's GSM network has just begun.
Therefore, in Owen Jacob's view, what Eric should do now is to help Nokia promote GSM technology in North America and enter the North American market, rather than throw an olive branch to CDMA, a competitor of GSM technology.
Eric didn't wait for Owen Jacob to ask. He took the initiative to explain: "Owen, I know you must have some doubts, but in my opinion, there is no conflict between supporting the development of Qualcomm and Nokia, because GSM and CDMA are two completely different generations of mobile communication technology standards, Qualcomm Nokia and Nokia should also be two completely different companies. I even hope that Qualcomm and Nokia can form a close relationship in the future. We will discuss these in detail in the future. I just mentioned Nokia, but there are other reasons, although Nokia The momentum of development is very rapid now, but in the second half of last year, Nokia also experienced a very major corporate crisis. Chris knows this better than me. He was running around for a long time at the end of last year. Come on."
Everyone looked at Chris. Although Chris was a little puzzled why Eric suddenly mentioned this matter, he explained: "Before 1992, Nokia only produced hundreds of thousands of mobile phones every year. However, after 1992, Due to the strong market demand brought about by the popularization of GSM technology, Nokia's sales of communication equipment and mobile phones have increased exponentially. Last year, Nokia's sales of mobile phones alone reached 3.1 million units. The entire supply chain of components and parts collapsed, so Nokia CEO Joma Ollila and I spent several months at the end of last year to carry out a complete overhaul of Nokia's supply chain to ensure that Nokia's production capacity can meet the continuous expansion. mobile communications market.”
Irving Jacobs has been racking his brains to promote CDMA technology, but he has never considered the longer-term issues, but he also realized something when he heard Chris talk about the crisis that Nokia experienced last year.
Eric also said at this time: "As far as I know, except for some manufacturers that are still producing the first generation of analog signal mobile phones in the market, the digital mobile phones produced by almost all mainstream communication manufacturers are GSM standard, with high pass-through. In the past ten years, we have been focusing on technology research and development, and we also do not have much ability to produce CDMA equipment. Then, once CDMA technology is selected as the technical standard by any large communication operator, what is Qualcomm going to do to deal with the sudden millions of What about the market demand for CDMA equipment?" (To be continued.) SJGSF0916 Baidu search "" to see the latest and most complete novel!