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Chapter 1256 Promotion and Salary Increase, Becoming General Manager, Taking Office as CEO, Marrying...

Upon hearing this news, Nakamura Takeo was momentarily dazed and remained stunned for a long while. He wondered if he had drunk too much and was starting to get drunk.

Is Dongling Hi-Tech returning to the mobile phone industry?

This joke is not funny at all. If Dongling Hi-Tech sold off its Xiaolingtong business and returned to the mobile phone industry.

What about Nihon Telephone & Telegraph Company, which spent $14.6 billion to buy PHS (Personal Handyphone System) phones?
A cold sweat broke out on his back instantly. All those images of Ginza, hostesses, and courtesans vanished. Nakamura Takeo was gripped by a deep sense of conspiracy.

This doesn't mean that Japan spent extra money on buying PHS phones or anything like that. Acquisitions are all about making and losing money, isn't that normal?
Even if the sales of PHS phones declined, it wouldn't have a significant impact on Nakamura Takeo. After all, Japan Telephone and Telegraph bought PHS phones for the sake of PHS phone patents and sales, thereby controlling the entire PHS technology industry chain and standards.

From PHS base stations to PHS mobile phones, and then to PHS communication operators, Japan Telephone & Telegraph Corporation (JTB) has it all.

All companies entering the PHS industry have to pay patent fees to Nippon Toshiba Telephone & Telegraph Corporation. This is a generous gesture from Nippon Toshiba Telephone & Telegraph Corporation, or it could be said to be the style of a giant company like Nippon Toshiba, which likes to monopolize the market and feels naturally uncomfortable seeing others sharing the profits.

Not to mention, the sales of PHS phones are still very strong. After acquiring PHS phones, Nihon Telephone & Telegraph Company took the lead in launching a price war.

The PHS phones originally held by Dongling Hi-Tech used patents to suppress other PHS phone manufacturers, preventing them from engaging in malicious price wars.

Back then, although PHS phones were cheaper than Nokia and Ericsson phones, they were still considered mid-to-high-end phones, and the profit margin wasn't low.

However, during the Japanese telephone and telegraph era, Xiaolingtong (a type of mobile phone service) prioritized sales volume and disregarded everything else.

This resulted in sales of PHS phones being significantly higher than before Nihon Sekkei Telephone & Telegraph Company acquired them from Toling High-Tech.

However, the profit from Xiaolingtong was almost discounted. But for Nihon Seng Telephone & Telegraph, as long as Xiaolingtong was sold, the performance could be made to look good. As long as Nihon Seng Telephone & Telegraph's stock price rose, what did the profit from selling Xiaolingtong matter?
Indeed, this is true. This year, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation's revenue has reached a record high, and its stock price has also soared.

This year marks a return to the top for Japan's pharmaceutical industry, with its market capitalization returning to over $100 billion, surpassing Japanese giants such as Toyota and Mitsubishi Bank to become the most valuable listed company in Japan.

However, this is only part of Nakamura Takeo's great achievements. This year, he created another myth in the Japanese stock market!

Takeo Nakamura pulled off a stunt in October of this year by spinning off the mobile telecommunications business of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) to form NTT Mobile, which was then listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

NTT Telecom, also known as Nihon Sekkei, has seen its stock price skyrocket in the two months since its listing, with its market capitalization exceeding $659 billion. It has surged to become the fourth most valuable company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, second only to its parent company, Nihon Sekkei Telegraph, as well as Toyota and Mitsubishi Bank.

In other words, two of the top ten listed companies in Japan are affiliated with Japan Telephone & Telegraph Corporation, and both are headed by Takeo Nakamura.

What are these so-called "Three Saints of Management" compared to Nakamura Takeo? They are nothing but white-haired old men, gray-bearded thieves, and withered bones in a tomb. What qualifications do they have to be compared with him?

Even so, Nakamura Takeo felt that he hadn't even used half of his strength. He also planned to have Japan Telephone & Telegraph Company listed on the American and London Stock Exchanges.

To make Nippon Telegraph and Telephone the world's leading telephone and telegraph company.

If his blueprint is completed, what will be the market value of the Japanese Telephone and Telegraph Company?
Compared to the meager earnings from selling PHS phones, and the revenue generated for the Japanese telephone and telegraph company from new users, phone bills, and SMS fees, it was truly negligible.

Not to mention the gains from the stock market. NTT Mobile's listing raised $179 billion, setting a record for the largest IPO in Japanese history. In one go, it recouped the money spent on acquiring PHS (Personal Handyphone System).

A surge in the stock price of Nihon Sekkei Telephone & Telegraph Company, followed by a round of financing or stock cash-out, yields far greater profits than PHS (Personal Handyphone System), and the money comes in much faster!

It was precisely because of the phenomenal telegrams and phone calls made by Japan this year that Nakamura Takeo and his executives were able to visit Ginza every few days for drinking and entertainment.

Having fought battles his entire life, Nakamura Takeo has now surpassed the three great business magnates of Japan. Let's delve into his glorious achievements and ask, what's wrong with him?
But now, the news brought by Kentaro Takada made Takeo Nakamura break out in a cold sweat.

What he feared was not Dongling High-Tech's return to the mobile phone industry, but another possibility that could bury Japan Telephone and Telegraph in the ground.

Why did NTT's market capitalization rise again? Why was NTT Telecom so enthusiastically sought after as soon as it went public?

It's not about fancy user numbers, revenue, or performance figures, but about the Japanese betting on the nation's future and on PHS technology becoming a standard in the communications industry comparable to GSM and CDMA.

It is precisely because of its monopoly in the PHS industry that its stock price has soared.

But what if the Japanese gamble on their nation's future and PHS doesn't become the mainstream communication technology of the future? What would that scenario be?
Thinking of that scene, Nakamura Takeo felt a huge wave of dizziness wash over him.

Biting his tongue to force himself awake, Nakamura Takeo stood up with trembling legs and grabbed Takada Kentaro's tie. "Where did you get this information?"

"Today, Dongling Hi-Tech held a new product launch event simultaneously in three locations around the world. Internet platforms were the first to report the news of Dongling Hi-Tech's return to the mobile phone industry, and it is estimated that TV stations and other media will soon report on it as well."

Just then, Kentaro Takada's phone rang. Nakamura Takeo saw that after answering the call, Kentaro Takada's face turned deathly pale.

"idiot!"

"What Japan needs now is a brave man, not an incompetent coward!"

Although Nakamura Takeo himself was also extremely flustered, he couldn't help but curse when he saw Takada Kentaro, who was trembling.

After hurling his insults, Nakamura Takeo asked, "What happened now?"

"A Japanese TV station has started airing an advertisement for Dongling High-Tech's new mobile phone!"

Upon hearing this, Nakamura Takeo shoved Takada Kentaro aside, found a room with a television, and began searching for TV channels.

After flipping through the screen a few times, Nakamura Takeo stopped and looked at the television. Takada Kentaro also turned his gaze to the television.

This is a television broadcast from TV Tokyo, with the camera first focusing on a young man who has just graduated from a university in Japan.

This young man, sitting in the office, seemed somewhat out of place. Anyone familiar with the workplace at Nihon University knew that studying at Nihon University and working as a laborer in a company were two completely different experiences. From junior high to high school and then to university, Nihon University followed the American model, which emphasized stress reduction, avoiding cutthroat competition, joyful education, and holistic education. In other words, it was about cultivating interests and inspiring natural talents.

In layman's terms, it's like letting ducks roam free; they basically don't interfere and even encourage hobbies, especially sports like football, basketball, and baseball.

This is why countless Japanese people miss their school days; school was truly a happy time.

But the world is realistic; if you can't enter a professional team within the realm of your passion for sports, you'll be eliminated as soon as you graduate.

Next, you'll face the real world. Whether you enter a company or a government agency, what's required is obedience, performance, and taking the blame. You're expected to work like cattle to earn money, not to experience life like royalty.

Therefore, Japanese people often find it difficult to adapt when they first transition from university to the workplace, and this phenomenon becomes more and more obvious as they go on for more years.

On the television screen, there's a newbie just starting out in the Japanese workplace, clearly struggling to adapt to the change in his status from a cow to a horse.

As the camera pans, the young Japanese man, dragging his tired body, returns home and begins to eat the fast food he bought from the convenience store.

He had only taken a few bites when his phone suddenly rang. When the young man answered, it was his parents calling. It was clear that the young man was alone, having come to Tokyo to make a living.

Although he was not yet used to the company, the young man still spoke to his parents on the phone in a deliberately relaxed tone, telling them how well the president, supervisor, and senior colleagues who mentored him had taken care of him.

But halfway through the conversation, the phone suddenly lost signal. Upon seeing this, Nakamura Takeo and Takada Kentaro both looked rather grim. Although the phone brand wasn't shown in the advertisement, this kind of scenario was all too familiar to PHS phones; it was practically a direct hit to their faces.

Suppressing the urge to smash the TV, Nakamura Takeo continued watching. After hanging up the phone, the young man resumed munching on his cold, fast food.

The next day, as usual, the young man returned to his rented house like a walking corpse. But the only difference was that when he opened the door, he smelled the aroma of food. There was a table full of dishes in the room.

On the table, there was also a note and an exquisitely packaged gift box.

The note was left by the young man's parents, telling him that they had come today and that his mother had prepared the meal for him.

At the end of the note was a sentence written by the young man's father: "Don't miss any phone calls, and don't give up any opportunities. One day, let the world hear your voice."

This phone was the last gift his father, as his son, gave him as he entered society.

When he put down the note, the young man's eyes were already red. He then wolfed down the food from the table he had been eating. He had never missed the food so much. As he ate, tears welled up in his eyes.

After finishing the meal, the young man opened the gift box. At that moment, the camera zoomed in on the phone, and Nakamura Takeo and his companion stared intently at the phone in the young man's hand in the advertisement.

Completely streamlined and without an external antenna, although it has a plastic casing, it exudes a faint glow and does not give people a cheap feeling.

From this moment on, young people will all have this Shenzhou Global Pass mobile phone. They will use it to make calls, send emails, receive weather text messages reminding them of the day's temperature, and use the built-in browser to look up information when needed.

When they're tired, young people can turn on their phones, plug in earphones to listen to music, play games to relax, or read e-books.

The commercial basically flashed frame by frame, showing the audience the general functions of the Hasee Global Pass mobile phone.

As the camera zooms in, the young people in the film begin to change their identities, from ordinary employees to supervisors, and then to department managers, where they meet the company president's daughter.

The final shot shows a man standing in front of a floor-to-ceiling window in a huge office space, with a miniature view of Tokyo below. The young man has his hands behind his back and holds a Hasee Global Pass phone. One shot is enough to show that the young man is already a successful person.

"Never miss an opportunity to make the world stop and listen to your voice!"

The advertisement ends with a sentence followed by the only appearance of the Shenzhou Global Pass advertising slogan in the entire video.

To put it bluntly, this advertisement is basically made according to the formula of a workplace fairy tale. To describe it in one sentence, it is about getting promoted and receiving a raise, becoming a general manager, becoming a CEO, marrying a beautiful and rich woman, and reaching the pinnacle of life!
Just as women yearn for the Cinderella story of meeting their Prince Charming, men also have their own version of the "duck soup" (a metaphor for romantic ideals).

The advertisement for Shenzhou Global Mobile Phone is all about duck soup. The advertisements released in other regions have similar storylines to those in Japan and the US, only the actors are different.

Besides this commercial, there are some other commercials, but they are basically just celebrities holding up Shenzhou Global Pass phones and simply saying the slogan "Shenzhou Global Pass, travel the world freely." The main commercial is still this one.

After watching the TV commercial, Nakamura Wataru fell silent. Shenzhou Global Pass and Xiaolingtong were completely different types of products; anyone with eyes could see that.

A piece of good news and a piece of bad news appeared in Nakamura Takeo's mind.

The good news is that the price of Shenzhou Global Pass exceeds 103,500 yen, which is unlikely to put too much pressure on Xiaolingtong, which has already been reduced to 45,000 yen. In the short term, there is no need to worry that the sales of Xiaolingtong will be greatly affected.

The bad news is that Dongling High-Tech has bet everything on GSM technology, so what about PHS technology?
"Get the public relations department moving to suppress the media's news reports and comments about Shenzhou Global Pass. I don't want to see any news from Japanese companies comparing Shenzhou Global Pass to Xiaolingtong!"

Takeo Nakamura explained to Kentaro Takada.

Well, as long as Japanese media don't report on it and the hype doesn't rise, it's like Nakamura Takeo communicating with Japanese media without seeing the release of Shenzhou Global Pass. Wouldn't everything be peaceful again, with songs being sung, dances being performed, and horses running as usual?
Even if it's only temporary, as long as pretending to be blind can get us through this, let's just get through this wave first!
"Arrange a flight, I need to go to Pingyang!"

……

In Pengcheng, Yin Zhuangjie, the owner of a company, stepped out of his home and into the elevator as usual, and immediately saw the promotional poster for Shenzhou Global Pass displayed in the elevator.

Although last night was the first time Shenzhou Global had advertised, Yin Zhuangjie was already familiar with it, because major TV stations across the mainland were broadcasting Shenzhou Global's commercials almost every time they aired a drama, weather forecast, or news segment.

That advertising slogan, "Let the world stop and listen to your voice," is now playing on a loop in Yin Zhuangjie's head...

　Chapter Two will be updated this afternoon.

　　
　
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