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Chapter 1382 There are many paths to take, each to their own.

Yao Luoying lay on Li Dongling's chest. When she saw Li Dongling answer the phone, her expression changed for a moment, but then she returned to normal.

But Yao Luoying knew Li Dongling's personality well, and he was clearly in trouble right now.

"What happened?"

After Li Dongling hung up the phone, Yao Luoying had already recovered from giving birth to Xiao Zhiyuan, but her body had become a bit plump. She climbed out of the quilt, raised her head and asked Li Dongling.

Stroking Yao Luoying's smooth back, Li Dongling smiled and shook his head. "The Dongling High-Tech Department wanted to join the Bluetooth Alliance formed by Siemens, but Siemens rejected them!"

After Li Dongling left the laboratory of Dongke Technology Department that day, Chen Tao's side began to prepare for Dongke's own Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technology.

However, the East Taiwan Science Park Technology Department is taking a two-pronged approach: acquiring Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technologies and recruiting R&D personnel to develop East Taiwan Science Park's own Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technologies.

On the other hand, the East Taiwan Science and Technology Department contacted the Bluetooth Alliance and the Wi-Fi Alliance, hoping to become a transfer student, but the responses they received were not very positive.

The Bluetooth SIG is led by five companies: Ericsson, Nokia, Intel, Toshiba, and IBM. Yes, four out of the five are competitors of Dongke…

Apart from IBM, the perennial troublemaker in the tech industry, which maintains a superficial cooperation with Dongling Hi-Tech, the other four companies have all had conflicts with Dongling Hi-Tech or are currently competing with it.

The current Wi-Fi Alliance is dominated by several companies, including Nokia, Cisco, Xunbao Technology, 3Com, and Lucent.

This alliance doesn't have much of a grudge against Dongke, but Nokia is also involved.

As Nokia's most important competitor in the Asian mobile phone market and the global high-end mobile phone market, it would be strange if Nokia just watched Dongling High-Tech join these two technology alliances.

Most of the Bluetooth SIG members are locked in fierce competition with Dongling Hi-Tech, while the Wi-Fi Alliance has Nokia as a backer, blocking Dongling Hi-Tech's path.

Furthermore, Dongke's application to join the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi alliances requires voting rights, which makes the leading companies in both alliances even more unwilling to accept it.

They formed an alliance to promote their own standards and encourage other companies to manufacture Bluetooth and Wi-Fi devices according to their technical standards.

Since they hold the patents, other companies that want to produce standard-compliant Bluetooth and Wi-Fi devices either have to buy their equipment or pay patent fees!
Nokia, Ericsson, and other manufacturers want to ride on the backs of other manufacturers and act like fathers, not to find a father to ride on their backs.

Therefore, the voting rights of the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi alliances, dominated by Nokia, Ericsson, and other leading parties, are unlikely to be given to Dongling Hi-Tech.

Although it was somewhat expected, the blatant rejection effectively ended Dongke's hopes of squeezing into other people's circles.

Although Yao Luoying had left Dongling High-Tech, she was still aware of the situation there. She knew that things were not as simple as Li Dongling made them out to be.

"Are these two alliances very important to Dongke?" Yao Luoying frowned slightly and asked Li Dongling.

Li Dongling nodded. "It is troublesome, but it won't affect Dongke for the time being. However, in the future, if the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi alliance led by Ericsson and Nokia becomes the mainstream global standard, Dongke will be subject to others, and even... Dongke's products may be banned from using these Bluetooth and Wi-Fi devices at any time."

What are Dongke's plans?

Yao Luoying looked at Li Dongling and asked. Over the years, Yao Luoying had naturally come to know Li Dongling's temperament quite well.

Li Dashanren usually gives people a warm and welcoming feeling, but Yao Luoying knows that Li Dongling is definitely not someone who will sit idly by and wait for death.

This can be seen from the early years of Dongling Hi-Tech's establishment, when it first fought head-on against Microsoft with its back against the wall, and then engaged in a decisive battle with Siemens in the digital telephone market.

Later, he had a falling out with Toshiba over the supply of digital cordless phone chips, but Li Dashan never backed down at crucial moments!
"It's just a matter of dealing with whatever comes our way!"

"Ericsson and Nokia don't want Dongke to have this business, so let's all just not have it!"

Li Dongling sneered, "What if you have a table full of food, but the other party uses some fabricated charges to prevent you from sitting down?"
First, you need to see what you're capable of; after all, you need to be strong yourself to succeed.

If you lack the strength but still try to force your way onto the table, you're only inviting humiliation, and you'll likely end up getting a beating.

But when you have the strength to sit down at the table, even if you don't have enough power to defeat those who are blocking your way, as long as you have the ability to fight back, you can use Brother Crow's special skill: flip the table and stop everyone from eating!
Dongling High-Tech, facing so many competitors like Ericsson, Nokia, and Cisco, certainly can't be expected to take on a whole group on its own.

However, one thing is certain: Dongke is capable of fighting back; it's not just a team that can take a beating.

At worst, we'll flip the table, and nobody can make a living from Bluetooth and Wi-Fi anymore. Ericsson and Nokia, dreaming of unifying global standards? Keep dreaming. In mainland China, Hong Kong, and even Southeast Asia like Japan and Singapore, Dongke will never let them have their way.

Furthermore, the standards for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are not yet finalized, and there is more than one technological approach. Ericsson and Nokia can find allies and form groups to promote their own standards.

Can't Dongke find allies?

Even the enemy of my enemy isn't necessarily off-limits; Intel is a competitor of Cisco in the wireless network card market. Giants like Intel, HP, Dell, Compaq, and Microsoft also have their own local area network (LAN) wireless technology, HomeRF, making them competitors with Cisco and Ericsson as well.

As long as it can cause trouble for the other side, Dongke might as well contact Intel...

The battle between Bluetooth and Wi-Fi standards is not solely about technology; it's also about who has the better strategy and can attract more supporters.

Anyway, as long as Nokia and Ericsson don't dominate the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi standards, that's enough for Dongke. It gives them room to maneuver and prevents them from being controlled by the other party in the future.

After saying that, Li Dongling mounted his horse, pulled Yao Luoying into the quilt, and began the great undertaking of creating a younger brother or sister for Xiao Zhiyuan.

……

"Let's form the Shenzhou Interoperability Alliance as soon as possible!"

At the headquarters of Dongling High-Tech, Li Dongling met Chen Tao, the general manager of the technology department, and immediately addressed him.

"Acquire Bluetooth and Wi-Fi related patents and technologies from overseas and recruit talent in this field."

Dongling High-Tech needs to develop its own standard Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technologies as soon as possible and begin promoting them domestically. Dongling High-Tech must dominate the domestic Bluetooth and Wi-Fi market!

Li Dongling said to Chen Tao, his meaning was clear: he wanted to use the Shenzhou Inter-Transfer Alliance to compete with the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Alliance.

From then on, everyone will implement their own standard, and no one will have an easy time.

"in addition……"

Li Dongling pondered for a moment, "In addition to inviting domestic mobile phone and computer manufacturers, as well as communication equipment manufacturers such as ZTE and Huawei, to join the Shenzhou Inter-Transfer Alliance."

You can also contact overseas companies and invite them to join the Shenzhou Inter-Transfer Alliance. Tell them that the alliance can mutually recognize and certify their Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technologies, and exchange patents with them free of charge for technological compatibility!

Chen Tao had a premonition that things might have come to this point, but he still couldn't help but say, "But if this happens, the cost of making Bluetooth and Wi-Fi technologies compatible with each other will probably be very high!"

"If everyone's costs are high, then... it's not considered high!"

Li the Great Philanthropist said, "When everyone loses money together, it doesn't count as a loss. The main principle is equality for all beings. It doesn't matter if I suffer a loss, as long as my opponents don't gain an advantage."

As if remembering something, Li Dongling's gaze turned strange. "The Shenzhou Inter-Transfer Alliance can invite companies such as IBM, Microsoft, JPT, AMD, ZTE, and Huawei, and even make them members of the Shenzhou Inter-Transfer Alliance's council, giving them voting rights!"

IBM is a perennial troublemaker in the tech industry, comparable to Britain, digging pits and planting mines everywhere. Even if it blows itself up, it won't let its competitors have an easy time.

In order to compete with Apple, IBM nurtured Microsoft, but Microsoft became too powerful to control, and even companies like Sun and Tesla were annoyed by IBM.

Li Dongling wasn't sure whether other companies would join the Shenzhou Interconnect Alliance, but one thing was certain: IBM, always eager to stir up trouble, would definitely join.

Just like the once cunning British Empire, playing the balancing act is ingrained in the British and IBM's very nature. Especially when they feel they are weakening, they like to use a balancing strategy to constantly stir up trouble and make their rivals fight each other, so that they can maintain their own advantage.

Bringing IBM over will definitely make things difficult for companies like Nokia, Ericsson, and Cisco.

After receiving Li Dongling's instructions, Chen Tao nodded, turned around, and left, ready to start causing trouble.

Meanwhile, Li Dongling, along with Zhou Hongyi and the others who had come from Yanjing, boarded the Dongke private plane and prepared to head to Hong Kong.

……

Carlson, president of Ericsson China, also saw the news that Dongke's application to join the Bluetooth Alliance had been rejected.

"Those guys in Stockholm made a fatal mistake, and they'll definitely pay the price later!"

Carlson, a man well-versed in the ways of the mainland, couldn't help but slam his hand on the table as he looked at the document.

"Do you really think that this piece of waste paper can stop Dongling High-Tech from obtaining Bluetooth technology?"

Carlson laughed in anger and complained to his confidant, Van der Zhi.

Carlson felt that the guys at Ericsson's headquarters in Stockholm had no idea what was happening on the mainland.

It's unclear how much effort Carlson put into integrating Ericsson into the Chinese market, but those guys turned Ericsson's Chinese operations into adversaries with just a piece of paper.

Carlson really wanted to pry open the neck straps on those old men at Ericsson headquarters and see what was inside!
(End of this chapter)