What Olila didn't know was that he was actually the great philanthropist of Tian Xing Machinery Factory.
Tian Xing Machinery Factory had spent a total of 300 million USD to purchase all kinds of equipment. It could be considered as the company that Da Qian had invested in the most, with tens of thousands of employees.
However, Tian Xing Machinery Factory was in a state of starvation recently.
In order to manufacture and sell Daqian phones, Tian Xing Machinery Factory added a batch of equipment and workers. Although the sales of Daqian phones seemed to be good, Boss Jia knew that at this time, it would be difficult for Tian Xing Machinery Factory to make a profit only by relying on Daqian phones.
In fact, not only Tian Xing Machinery Factory, but all the companies under the Daqian Group had increased a large number of orders for mobile phones this time. These orders couldn't be made by Daqian phones, so there must be an additional source of profit.
Then, Nokia's OEM was the best choice. With Nokia's current sales, as long as they could take all of Nokia's production orders, the Daqian Group could be considered to be alive.
Therefore, Nokia was considered to be a great benefactor this time. Leng Xuxin really had to thank Nokia.
"Boss, won't we be cultivating a terrifying opponent like this?" Although he heard such good news, Leng Xuxin didn't have much of a smile on his face. Instead, he said with some worry, "We reduced Nokia's production cost by 400 USD, so Nokia's price can be reduced by 400 USD. If there is a price war in the future, then we will only have an advantage of about 200 USD. I'm afraid we won't be Nokia's opponent!"
"Don't worry. Since Nokia signed this contract, they don't want to give up the 400 USD profit, so they will never fight a price war with us. Especially when we announced that we will give up the European market, Nokia will be even less likely to fight with us!" Boss Jia laughed.
"That's only for the next few years. In the future, when our Daqian phones and CDMA phones are developed, Nokia will never stand by and watch us. A price war is inevitable!"
"Don't worry, when that time comes, it will be a war on another level. Other than the fruit, we will have no opponents!" Boss Jia squinted his eyes, patted Leng Xunxin on the shoulder and said, "Go ahead. Work hard for Nokia and ensure the quality. Don't ruin the reputation of Tianxing Machinery Factory and Daqian Group!"
"Yes!" Although Leng Xuxin couldn't understand what Boss Jia meant by the fruit, he still nodded. He would never ruin the reputation of the child he had raised wholeheartedly.
This was what happened more than 40 days ago. In the eyes of outsiders, Nokia had gained all the benefits.
First, they had successfully forced Da Qian to retreat in the European market. They had forced Da Qian to go all out against Motorola.
At the same time, Nokia also got the CDMA baseband and the opportunity to enter the Hua Xia market. Finally, they got the opportunity to reduce the cost by 400 USD. This was simply an invincible gift for Nokia.
But in fact, Daqian … at least Boss Jia felt that he didn't lose anything. If CDMA wanted to take off, it had to enter the era of the national network, which was the era of 3G.
In history, this time point was 2006, which was 11 years away from now. Even if Boss Jia's layout could be accelerated by a few years, it would still take seven or eight years. If they stuck to CDMA, Daqian could only look at the GSM market and drool.
Therefore, it was imperative to get Nokia's GSM baseband. Around 2000, due to the general trend and the pressure of the world's major financial powers, Nokia and Motorola would release their monopoly on the GSM baseband and authorize other companies to produce the GSM baseband.
But if they could do it five years earlier, why not?
In addition, Boss Jia also had a very obscure idea that he couldn't tell others.
A few months later, with the stable supply of Star Machinery Factory, Nokia's quality control team was surprised by the Daqian. The quality of these mobile phones made in a backward third country was quite amazing, and the conformity rate was more than 97%. This was the conformity rate achieved by Nokia's Finnish factory after more than ten years of exploration and experience.
After a few more months of observation, Nokia found that the supply of Star Machinery Factory was continuous and stable. Therefore, in addition to handing over the 2150 to Star Machinery Factory, Nokia also handed over two models to Star Machinery Factory. The results were very perfect. The products made by Star Machinery Factory were not inferior to Nokia's products at all. The production speed was amazing, and the price was simply outrageous. It was many times better than the local factory in Finland.
Therefore, after several meetings, Nokia's board of directors signed a permanent cooperation agreement with Star Machinery Factory, which guaranteed that Star Machinery Factory would not refuse to be Nokia's OEM for any reason, and the price would always be reasonable. Finally, the board of directors made a decision to gradually reduce the scale of Nokia's local factory in Finland, and finally maintain a smaller factory that produced core components. A large number of other mobile phone production tasks were all handed over to Star Machinery Factory.
Even some of Nokia's newly developed mobile phones were directly handed over to Star Machinery Factory for production. Nokia began to enjoy a good life without a large number of production companies and a large number of workers.
With Nokia's orders, Star Machinery Factory's life became better and better. Later, the money they earned from Nokia was even more than the profits from the Daqian's business.
Ahem, back to the topic, let's focus on Christopher Galvin again. After discovering that the Daqian mobile phone was installed with Nokia's baseband, Christopher Galvin immediately called Nokia to see if the Daqian had stolen Nokia's baseband.
Then Nokia changed the topic, neither admitting nor denying it.
Of course, this was an admission. In the end, Christopher Galvin could only hang up the phone with a black face. A few days later, Christopher Galvin, through some special channels, actually got a copy of the agreement signed between Nokia and the Daqian. When he saw the agreement clearly, Christopher Galvin was in a state of rage.
"Nokia's group of bastards, they don't have to worry about anything, but they want to kill us!" Christopher Galvin slammed the document on the table. At this time, half a month had passed since the Daqian launched the Daqian mobile phone in the United States.
According to Christopher Galvin's investigation, the Daqian mobile phone in the United States had achieved a result that could not be said to be excellent, but definitely not bad.
In half a month, 8,000 Daqian mobile phones were sold in the United States. It was estimated that in July, about 15,000 Daqian mobile phones could be sold.
However, this result was temporary, and it was the result of the Titanic. After July, the sales would continue to decline. It was estimated that the sales for the whole year would be about 50,000 units at most. It was still not comparable to Motorola's 300,000 units in the North American market.
However, the sales of 50,000 units was equivalent to Motorola's 16%. In the future, the Daqian mobile phone could rise at any time and beat Motorola in North America. Although Christopher Galvin was very proud, he was not without vigilance.
"Hmph, it's just a thing that became popular through advertising. Since you can become popular through advertising, you can also be destroyed in the hands of marketing!" Christopher Galvin said darkly.
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