It is impossible to count the number of patents involved in a single mobile phone in the future. Sometimes, even if you do not have the technology to copy others, you may inadvertently infringe it.

Therefore, in later generations, Qualcomm also acted as a protective umbrella for many mobile phone manufacturers when collecting patent fees.

To put it simply, after you pay the money, Social Security will ensure that you have nothing to worry about. It is precisely because of this agreement that Qualcomm has been involved in lawsuits. Almost every year, national antitrust fines are imposed on Qualcomm.

And each time, the fine was hundreds of millions of dollars. For an ordinary company, so many lawsuits would have been crazy.

But Qualcomm doesn't care. In order to solve the lawsuit, Qualcomm has a professional team of lawyers who specialize in handling these matters.

It's just a penalty. Compared with what you earn, it's just a drizzle.

Yang Chen wants to enter the communications industry and occupy part of the market in the future 3G4G network era. Qualcomm is his biggest opponent.

However, Yang Chen cannot guarantee that the few people he snatched from Bell Labs will be more capable than Qualcomm in the future.

From Huawei, it is not difficult to see that various countries attach great importance to the communications industry, especially when it comes to standards in the communications field, which will lead to national-level efforts.

As the application of large-scale integrated circuits, microprocessors and digital signals becomes more mature, the communications industry will be widely used in various fields. At that time, the communications industry will become a strategic industry for various countries. Whether it can master the standards of the industry requires national and

It is a comprehensive struggle between countries and alliances.

The losing party will not only have to pay high patent fees to the other party, but will also be prone to the other party taking over the industrial initiative.

Let’s not talk about the 1G era. There is nothing to argue about. The main thing is the 2G era we are going through and the future 3G4G era. The reason why 2G is mentioned is mainly because it will still exist after the emergence of 5G.

In later generations, many people have discovered that sometimes when we use our mobile phones, if we encounter a place with poor signal, the signal network will continue to drop, jumping from 4G to 3G or even 2G.

Qualcomm mainly dominated the 3G4G field. It missed the 2G era in the previous life. In the previous life, the 2G era was controlled by Europe.

When digital communications first started, European countries realized that it was difficult to compete with the United States in technology alone.

Therefore, the European Union, unwilling to lag behind the United States, established a special mobile expert group to be responsible for the research of communication standards throughout Europe, and combined the communication capabilities of all European countries to successfully surpass the United States in the 2G field.

Europe's GSM communication technology is the communication standard in the 2G era in Europe. Its core is time division multiple access technology. Its characteristic is that one channel is evenly divided among eight callers. Only one person can speak at a time, and each person takes turns using one percent of the time.

channel time.

However, the capacity of GSM is too small. When users are overloaded, more base stations must be built. Although GSM has outstanding advantages, it is easy to deploy and uses a new digital signal encoding to replace the original analog signal. It also supports international roaming and provides

The SIM card allows users to still store personal information when changing mobile phones, and can also send text messages of more than 100 characters in length.

However, no matter how many advantages GSM has, it is difficult to cover up the shortcomings of small capacity. Therefore, in terms of choice, Yang Chen is still unwilling to adopt European GSM communication technology, because compared with the CDMA technology held by Qualcomm, the former is too far away.

CDMA has more than ten times the capacity than GMS and has better confidentiality. However, Qualcomm's CDMA technology is not taken seriously by the US market, so this future patent troll giant has not yet risen to prominence.

In the future of 3G4G mobile phones, European GSM will be eliminated because its capacity is too small to carry the huge traffic impact. Therefore, in Yang Chen's eyes, GSM can only be regarded as a transitional product and cannot be compared with CDMA at all.

Yang Chen does things with the mindset of future generations, and habitually likes to make long-term plans. Since there are better ones available, why should he use something that is destined to be eliminated soon?

That not only wastes time, but also wastes money.

Yang Chen originally wanted to acquire Qualcomm directly, but the founders of Qualcomm were not simple and were unwilling to be acquired. At the same time, the two parties had not reached an agreement on equity cooperation.

Therefore, Yang Chen could only use the talents poached from Bell Labs to slowly research on his own, and at the same time let his Xiangjiang Telephone Company continue to expand the pager business.

The pager was originally developed by Bell Labs. The pager was developed forty years ago. The pager sold by the Heung Kong Telephone Company is the latest product and is very popular in the market.

The Xiangjiang pager market has now been completely monopolized by Yang Chen's Xiangjiang Telephone Company, which has now expanded its business in Southeast Asia and inland markets.

However, the technical content of gadgets like pagers is too low, and the market competition outside Hong Kong and the mainland is too great. It is difficult for Xiangjiang Telephone Company to open the market. Whether it is pagers or mobile phones, signal towers are needed to send and receive signals. Without

Signal towers, then pagers and cell phones are a waste.

Therefore, Yang Chen wanted to build his own 2G base station for a long time. Now, Qualcomm has given in. Obviously, American operators do not pay attention to it, which makes Qualcomm have other thoughts.

In its previous life, Qualcomm relied on Korean operators to take off. Qualcomm helped South Korea, which had relatively weak mobile phone and communication technologies, establish a 2G mobile communication foundation. The Korean government reciprocated by making CDMA the only 2G communication standard, and fully supported Samsung and LG in commercializing CDMA technology.

change.

Due to the vigorous promotion of the Korean government, the advantages of CDMA technology have been infinitely expanded. Finally, American operators began to pay attention to Qualcomm, causing Qualcomm to skyrocket.

In this generation, Qualcomm wants to rely on the Yang Chen consortium to take off. Although the Xiangjiang market is not as big as the Korean market, its economic strength cannot be underestimated. The most important point is that our boss Yang is rich, and the business of his Xiangjiang Telephone Company is not small. Although Xiangjiang Telephone Company

The telephone company is not the only one in Southeast Asia, but it still occupies a large market share.

After a series of acquisitions by Mr. Yang, Xiangjiang Telephone Company has changed from what it used to be. At the same time, Xiangjiang Telephone also has a ticket to enter the inland market. This means a huge market with a population of more than one billion, which can be controlled by Xiangjiang Electric.

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"Thirty percent of the shares, the largest private shareholder."

Seeing this share certificate, a smile appeared on Yang Chen's lips.

But that's not the point

Yang Chen turned over another contract. The content was very simple. In short, Qualcomm and Xiangjiang Telephone Company cooperated to build a 2G base station, and at the same time, they still maintained the first partnership in higher fields in the future.

Obviously, the condition behind this contract is that Qualcomm is afraid that Yang Chen will kick them away after Yang Chen has finished using them.

However, when Yang Chen saw this, he couldn't help but laugh. Originally, he was worried that if he couldn't compete with Qualcomm, or to put it more bluntly, if the U.S. government would lose face and impose restrictions on him, Xiangjiang Telephone Company

What should we do with 3G4G in the future?

It's better now. When drowsiness comes, someone gives me a pillow. Such behavior must be supported by a small red flower.

Yuan Tianfan then came up with another contract

"Boss, here is another contract."

"What else?" Yang Chen was surprised again.

Yuan Tianfan smiled and said: "The boss mentioned before that Qualcomm has agreed to the restrictions on Qualcomm's patent fees. Qualcomm has also promised that the two companies can share patents in the future."

"show me"

Yang Chen happily looked at the three contracts in his hand. He had a way out. In the future, in the field of communications, his Xiangjiang Telephone Company would not be exploited by Qualcomm even if it could not keep pace with Qualcomm.

Think about how awesome Apple will be in the future. In the end, he will not have to endure Qualcomm's exploitation. With these three contracts, this kind of thing will not fall on him.
Chapter completed!