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Chapter 1063 Spring River Plumbing Duck Prophet

Nakamura Weifu interrupted Takada Kentaro with a grim look on his face. During this period, there was no good news for Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Due to production capacity issues, the share of Xiaolingtong mobile phones in the mainland and other overseas markets is constantly being snatched away, even by Japanese companies.

After all, there are no machines to sell, no matter how much you talk, it is useless. At this time, the competitors are naturally causing trouble for Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company, of course, did not sit idly by and was also looking for parts suppliers and OEM manufacturers for the PHS in Nippon.

But the problem still exists: it is impossible to suddenly increase the production capacity of Xiaolingtong to more than 20 million machines per year, and the product qualification rate is also a big problem.

The most important thing is that the cost of the PHS produced by a Japanese manufacturer is much higher than that of the one produced by Dongling Hi-Tech.

Without the constraints of the industry leader, the PHS mobile phone industry is now in a state of chaos. The cost of producing the PHS phones by Japanese OEM manufacturers is higher than the selling prices of other PHS mobile phone brands such as UTStarcom, BBK, and Bird. This results in a loss on every PHS phone sold. How can the Japanese Telephone and Telegraph Company survive?
The Xiaolingtong incident has already caused a chain reaction. The share price of Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company has been falling for a long time because of the Xiaolingtong incident, with the decline exceeding 8.6%.

It sounds like the share price of Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company hasn't fallen that much.

But according to BT Group's market value of US$8.6 billion at its peak last year, this % drop is equivalent to a loss of US$ billion in market value!

The decline in stock price and market value has made Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company's ambitious statement last year that it would surpass the market value of IBM and Microsoft to become the world's largest company by market value a joke!

Nippon Benzene Telephone and Telegraph Company has a complete set of plans. Once its market value becomes the world's largest, Nippon Benzene Telephone and Telegraph Company will be able to launch its listing plan in America. At that time, the entire Nippon Benzene Telephone and Telegraph Company board of directors will be able to make a fortune again.

If the sales of Xiaolingtong fail to recover and the stock price fails to rise, everything will be ruined.

Even the board of directors of Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company might have a rift with Nakamura Sue.

The Japanese Cabinet and the Japanese Ministry of Communications were also very dissatisfied with the fact that Japan's telephone and telegraph had been ruined and the PHS, which the Japanese telecommunications industry had placed high hopes on, had a future!

Now Nakamura Weifu also feels the pressure.

If we compare it with Dongling Hi-Tech, which broke up with Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company, it has been enjoying great success recently.

Feiyan MP3 is selling well all over the world, earning Dongling Hi-Tech a huge profit. The parts industry chain of Dongling Hi-Tech, which was hit by the loss of PHS orders, has now restored its production capacity!

Comparing the two, Nakamura Weifu couldn't help but feel a little regretful. He also couldn't help but think that if he hadn't fallen out with Dongling Hi-Tech because of the PHS OEM fee.

Now, the agency rights of Feiyan MP3 to Nippon Benz is most likely owned by Nippon Benz and Telephone & Telegraph. Will the share price of Nippon Benz and Telephone & Telegraph rise again?
Now, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph can only watch Softbank, the agent of Feiyan MP3, and enjoy the dividends of MP3. Softbank's stock price has been rising continuously.

If there was any possibility, Nakamura Weifu would not want to slap himself in the face and put what he had pulled out back in.

But the situation forced him to do so. If the problem with the Xiaolingtong mobile phone was not solved, Nakamura Suio didn't know how many years he could stay in the position of president!
"Go book the fastest flight to Hanxi!"

Nakamura Wei said something to Takada Kentaro and then turned and left.

When Kentaro Takada and the executives of Nippon Telephone and Telegraph heard this, they understood that Nakamura Sue was ready to bow his head.

This made everyone breathe a sigh of relief. It was better for Nakamura Wei to be embarrassed alone than for them to suffer with him.

Reputation is something that should be lost. You can't give up your position as the president of the company with the largest market value in Japan just for the sake of face. That would be like drinking too much Fukushima water and damaging your brain!

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"Big loss-making sale, 50% off all records!"

"Sony Walkman is on sale now, buy one and get a CD for free!"

Feng Jun, founder of Huaqi, the parent company of Patriot USB flash drives, the second largest brand of USB flash drives in China after Shenzhou, took a car to Yanjing Airport.

When passing by the famous audio-visual products street in Zhongguancun, Yanjing, you will see record stores selling records and walkmans. Now they either have signs saying that the store is for sale or are having a clearance sale.

The ducks know first when the river water warms in spring. In a big city like Yanjing, the wind blows especially strongly.

In second- and third-tier cities or counties, the sales of portable players, tapes, and discs may not have been greatly affected.

But in big cities like Yanjing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, stores selling Walkmans and records have all started big sales, preparing to clear out their inventory. These stores are not stupid, the MP3 trend has already started in big cities, even if it has not completely replaced the Walkman, but the emergence of Feiyan MP3 has caused the sales of Walkman to decline, and these stores can all feel it.

Veterans in the record industry know that once MP3 becomes popular, a batch of MP3s of various brands will emerge within half a year.

These unknown brands of MP3 players may be crudely made, ugly in design, and probably made of plastic shells. But there is one good thing about them: they are cheap!
Once these brands of MP3s appear, it means that the trend of MP3s is already rolling in and no one can stop it. By then, the records and Walkmans in their warehouses will all rot inside. If they sell them off at this time and make a little less money, it will not be a loss at all.

When Feng Jun saw this scene on the street, he became more and more excited about Huaqi obtaining the Feiyan MP3 patent and components.

Since the release of Feiyan MP3, as a member of Dongling Hi-Tech, Feng Jun has naturally paid special attention to MP3.

The entire portable music player market is now in a bloody storm. Sony has begun to cut prices across the board and is starting to compete with Feiyan MP3 for the market.

This has delayed the promotion of Feiyan MP3 to a certain extent, but Feng Jun does not think that Sony Walkman can stop the popularity of Feiyan MP3.

The price reduction of Walkman has only attracted some users by relying on the low price, but young users aged 15 to 30 obviously prefer MP3, which is something that Sony cannot change even if it reduces the price of Walkman. Feng Jun believes that it is only a matter of time before Feiyan MP3 surpasses Sony Walkman in market share.

In addition, Feng Jun also found out some overseas news that Warner and Sony have joined forces with the record industry and started hiring lawyers to prepare to sue the Napster website that has caused turmoil in the record industry. This matter has also attracted the attention of countless people.

After the MP3 player became a big hit, Feng Jun started contacting the Dongling Hi-Tech headquarters, hoping that Huaqi would also enter the MP3 industry.

In fact, Feng Jun also knew clearly why Dongling Hi-Tech wanted to acquire the controlling stake of Huaqi. To put it bluntly, it was to let Huaqi occupy the mass market for Dongling Hi-Tech.

And Huaqi has indeed done it. Now, Patriot, a subsidiary of Huaqi, is the second largest USB flash drive manufacturer in China. Its shipment volume is even larger than that of Shenzhou USB flash drives, but its profit is far less than that of Shenzhou. It basically relies on small profits but quick turnover, and also acts as a shield to prevent other USB flash drive brands from threatening Shenzhou.

Originally, Feng Jun thought that if Huaqi wanted to enter the MP3 industry, it would probably take a year or so. However, he did not expect that he would receive a notice from Dongling Hi-Tech so soon, asking him to rush to Hanxi!

This made Feng Jun feel excited. If Huaqi could be allowed by Dongling Hi-Tech to enter the MP3 market, it would become the world's second MP3 brand. The entire Huaqi would then enter a period of explosive growth and make huge profits!

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"Pass the ball!"

"quick!"

A game is taking place on the newly built basketball court of Dongling Hi-Tech Industrial Park, with the Administrative Department of Dongling Hi-Tech playing against the Logistics Department.

Mr. Li also played for a few minutes with Ren Yuefeng, Zhang Ao, Gao Peng and others as a warm-up match.

From time to time, departmental competitions such as basketball, football, and table tennis are held between departments within Dongling Hi-Tech.

Of course, the most popular and intense competitions are definitely between basketball and football. Although the prizes are just some computers, televisions, sneakers and jerseys, and the game has always been promoted as competition second and friendship first, but when the two are really compared, the game scene becomes a game of grudges.

Just like the famous Scottish Premier League city derby, there is no shady dealings, no match-fixing, no grudges, no human relationships, all for the desire to win...

When it comes to the competition between departments of Dongling Hi-Tech, it is truly a game of grudges on the field, especially the competition between the administrative department and the marketing department, and the budget management committee and the logistics department. These departments represent the confrontation between the manager faction and the veteran faction, as well as the grudges caused by funding.

This kind of competition between departments of Dongling Hi-Tech has subtly turned into a competition to settle grudges.

All the daily grudges were vented on the court. Winning at least represented the department's venting. You can imagine how intense the game was. Sometimes the score was very different.

After the players on both sides of the game threw a few balls with Li Dashanren, and after Li Dashanren left the court, the game suddenly became intense.

Watching the scenes on the court, with full-scale confrontation, muscle collision, and occasional blocked shots, Li Dashan even suspected that the players on the court were specially recruited from a sports school...

Watching the game on the court, Li Dongling wiped the sweat off his face and looked at Gao Peng who was absent-minded and making phone calls from time to time. He asked him, "What happened?"

Hearing this, Gao Peng put away his phone, thought about the message he had received, looked at Li Dongling, gnashed his teeth and said helplessly, "Brother Li, isn't Zhou Zhengyang going too far!"

"He has checked so many people in my logistics department this month. Am I not cooperating with him enough?"

"Today, the Disciplinary Committee held a team-building event and brought all the senior executives and new employees from the Logistics Department's Procurement Section to Pingyang Prison to visit the people from the Logistics Department who had been incarcerated before..."

(End of this chapter)