Chapter 97 Yota Communication Dilemma
In San Antonio, Texas, Eva left the location of AT&T in disappointment. As soon as he got in the car, he ordered the driver to drive the car to the airport. He was unwilling to stay in this desolate state full of deserts for a moment. up.
This time, Eva came to AT&T to visit the senior management here in order to promote Yota Communication's second-generation mobile communication technology. Just a few months ago, Eva once again turned down AT&T's offer to invest, casting a shadow over the two companies' partnership.
The current Yota communication seems to have a bright future, but in fact, some crises have been exposed vaguely. Although the second-generation mobile communication technology of Yota Communications is unique in the world, it can provide high-quality voice and data transmission services worldwide, but its cost is too high, and there are few operators in the world who are willing to adopt such an expensive infrastructure Very few, so far only Japanese operators have signed contracts. On the other hand, AT&T, an old friend of Yota Communications during its rise, used a generation of technology that cost tens of billions of dollars, and it is almost impossible to adopt newer technologies in the short term. Of course, it would be a different matter if Yota Communications became the daughter of AT&T.
It is not only the mobile communication business of Yota Communication that has been impacted, but the network solution of Yota Communication is also threatened by competitor Cisco. Originally in this battle, Yota Communications had the first technical advantages and the support of AT&T, so it could be said that it was sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai. However, because of the investment, the cooperation between Eva and AT&T in terms of network technology did not go smoothly. . Now it is said that Cisco executives have arrived in San Antonio. The trickiness in it is self-evident.
In fact, AT&T has always hoped to join the board of directors of Yota Communications, but Yota Communications has too many secrets that cannot be revealed, so despite the sincerity of AT&T, Eva never let go. In fact, it is impossible for Eva to agree to this kind of cooperation where one plus one is greater than two.
On the way to the airport, the disheartened Eva took out her satellite phone and habitually dialed Seryozha's number. She wanted to have a good talk with Seryozha to express her unhappiness. . It didn't take long for the call to be connected, and Seryozha's voice quickly came from there.
"Seryozha, our cooperation with AT&T seems impossible. They proposed that they would never purchase our second-generation mobile communication solutions unless they bought shares in Yota Communications." Eva was on the other side of the phone Said with a long sigh.
"Hey, that's such a pity, we just lack such a powerful partner! But Eva, it doesn't matter, I plan to take down the British communication operator in a few days, we can first use the second generation of mobile communication in the UK The European demonstration project has been established." Seryosha comforted.
"It's not all our own company, it's not interesting to do that!" Eva didn't intend to let Sergei Sha pay a lot of money to promote her Yota communication,
Because there is really no sense of accomplishment.
"But Eva, I think we can change our thinking. It is too troublesome to communicate with the mobile communication network from country to country like now! I think we can build a mobile communication network by ourselves. Throwing AT&T aside?" Seryozha would ask thoughtfully.
"Sergesha, you know that it's infrastructure investment, let's not talk about funding, dinosaurs are afraid that tens of billions of investment will be needed in North America alone, and before the entire network is established, our service will definitely not be able to compete AT&T, because we can't provide nationwide communication services, in addition to international telecommunications access, all of which require a huge amount of investment to support, you know, no one in the United States and the world is the United States Opponents of the Telephone and Telegraph Company!" Eva objected without thinking, he didn't want Seryozha to let the money go to waste in vain just to make himself happy.
"Is it true that no one is a rival to AT&T? What are we talking about now?" Sergey asked suddenly.
"Satellite phone... Seryozha, I don't understand what you mean, do you want to buy the International Maritime Satellite Organization? This is a non-profit organization, and it is impossible for them to accept our acquisition!" Eva passed by It reminds me of NMAR-SAT, the international maritime satellite organization, which is the service operator of satellite phones. This company uses GEO (Earth Prohibition Orbiting Satellite) to provide global call services, but their services are too expensive, not only the cost of calls is as high as 3-7 dollars per minute, the most important thing is that users of satellite communications Terminal satellite phones are too expensive, basically ranging from 3,000 to tens of thousands of dollars, so there have been very few private users of satellite phones, and most of the users are from shipping companies. Communications at sea. But this is not a company, but an international organization. They themselves have made a lot of money, and there is no shortage of funds, and it is impossible to allow private acquisitions.
"Eva, I mean since we can't compete with AT&T on the ground, we're going to take it to space! It's like President Reagan's Star Wars! You think we run a global satellite comm How about the Internet?" Seryozha explained like Eva.
"How much money... is it technically feasible?" Eva was frightened by Seryozha's plan. He never thought that he could still play like this.
"I have learned a little bit about this. If we want to achieve global communication, we need about 77 satellites, which is the same number of electrons as the iridium atom. I think how about we call this company Iridium Corporation?" Thank you Liao Sha said on the phone. In fact, he didn't know about it before, but the failure of Iridium will be widely disseminated as a classic business failure case decades later, so Seryozha's impression of this plan originated from Motorola profound. Besides, Seryozha was a top student in the Department of Chemistry at Moscow State University. How many electrons iridium has is not easy to open his mouth. As long as there are seventy-seven satellites, then find someone to understand the cost of launch and development, and how much investment the entire project requires. It is clear at a glance, according to Sergey Sha's plan, the whole project should cost about the same as AT&T's first-generation communication technology, but once the Iridium system is formally established, mobile communication will directly enter the era of global communication.