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Chapter 409 The Butterfly Flutters Its Wings
Facing the aggressive Yasuo Nishiguchi, Hideo Tanimoto knew that the other party was taking advantage of the situation and wanted to use him to establish his authority, but he couldn't refute it. It was indeed a fact that Kyocera mobile phones were not good.

Yasuo Nishiguchi has just taken over from Kazuo Inamori, known as the management saint of Japan, as the president of Kyocera. But the position of "saint" is like the succession of the throne in ancient times. Is it so easy to become one?
Now the entire Japanese economy, including Kyocera, is staring at Yasuo Nishiguchi through a magnifying glass and comparing him with Kazuo Inamori everywhere.

This puts Yasuo Nishiguchi under a lot of pressure. After all, no matter what he does, people will compare it with what Kazuo Inamori did before. This makes him very passive. Not to mention convincing the outside world, he has not established absolute authority even within Kyocera!
It just so happened that Kyocera's mobile phone business was in a downturn, and Japanese media reported news from Hong Kong that the global market for PHS mobile phones had exploded. Last year, it was sold out in Japan, with sales exceeding four million units, directly topping the list of Japanese mobile phone sales.

You know, Kyocera was one of the earliest Japanese companies to participate in the research and development of PHS technology. However, it got up early but arrived late, and did not get a single bite of the PHS mobile phone.

This just gave Nishiguchi Yasuo room to take advantage of the situation and prepare to take down Tanimoto Hideo, the first person he established his authority after becoming the head!

What is the most direct way to establish authority? Of course, it is to borrow heads. Just like the famous generals in ancient times, before going to the battle, in order to maintain military prestige and make their soldiers obey their orders, their favorite thing to do was to "borrow heads". The higher the status of the borrowed head, the better the effect!

After all, if the relatives of the princes and ministers violated the commander-in-chief's ban, he could be beheaded. So what about beheading other people? !

In the case of Yasuo Nishiguchi, he would target Kyocera's senior executives. When the entire Kyocera group saw that the high-ranking figures were dealt with by Yasuo Nishiguchi, would they dare to disobey?

Looking at Nishiguchi Yasuo's expression, Tanimoto Hideo could vaguely guess what he was thinking. He opened his mouth, but finally bent down and said, "President Nishiguchi Yasuo, it's all my fault!"

But Hideo Tanimoto lowered his head, but there was resentment and anger in his eyes. He did not dare to challenge Yasuo Nishiguchi, otherwise if he was caught, the other party would definitely kick him out. Even Kazuo Inamori, knowing that he was wronged, would probably not save him.

But, was it Hideo Tanimoto's fault alone that he missed out on the PHS mobile phone market? You know, when Kazuo Inamori was the president, he was not interested in PHS technology either. Could it be that Kazuo Inamori was not wrong?

But Hideo Tanimoto didn't dare to say this out loud, otherwise he would be kicked out of Kyocera immediately.

Seeing Hideo Tanimoto bowing at a standard 90-degree angle to admit his mistake, although Nishiguchi Yasuo did not seize the opportunity to kick him out, he was able to suppress Hideo Tanimoto. After the news got out, the heads of other departments of Kyocera no longer dared to disobey his orders in secret.

"The mobile phone business will be Kyocera's most important business in the future. We must not give it up. No matter what, Kyocera mobile phones must enter the PSH mobile phone market!"

Nishiguchi Yasuo passed on an inside message to Tanimoto Hideo, "Now PHS technology has entered many regions around the world and has become a business card for Japan in the technology industry. The attitudes of Japan's internal affairs and communications departments towards PHS have also changed, and there are already voices of support.

The new Japanese 2G telecommunications standard PDC may not appear! "

There is a widely circulated saying in the world that when a butterfly in the Amazon flaps its wings, a tornado will appear in America one month later. Overseas, this kind of scene is named the butterfly effect, while in China, it is called cause and effect!
Dongling Hi-Tech, with the help of Xiaolingtong, flapped its wings and created a storm in the Japanese mobile phone industry.

In the past, after Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company developed the PHS technology, not only was it looked down upon by other companies, but even within Japan, people looked down on PHS because of its poor signal and unstable calls. The Japan Communications Ministry took the lead, and Japanese manufacturers such as Hitachi, NEC, Kyocera, Toshiba, and Ericsson joined forces to start from scratch and develop another new Japanese 2G telecommunications standard PDC.

On the contrary, PHS was introduced into China a few years later and quickly became popular in the country because of its cheap base stations, cheap PHS phones and cheap call charges.

Seeing this situation, the Japanese Telephone and Telegraph Company belatedly promoted it overseas, and then quickly grabbed the market in neighboring Siam, Bangladesh, Colombia in South America, etc. However, a few years were enough for GSM base stations to be promoted, and Japan's own PDC standard also began to be promoted in full swing. At its peak, even though the PDC standard was considered the most closed and least used, there were 80 million mobile phone users in Japan, and almost three-quarters of Japanese mobile phone users were using mobile phones with PDC technology standards.

But it is different now. The global 2G telecommunications era has not yet arrived. GSM base stations are still being promoted slowly around the world because they are too expensive. Qualcomm's CDMA is not even popular in America.

While Japan's PDC standard is still being debated over funding sharing and which company should lead the development, PHS, on the other hand, has suddenly begun to appear in many regions like a volcanic eruption, becoming the most popular player in the global communications industry. The sales of one PHS brand, Xiaolingtong, alone have exceeded 10 million units.

This made Japan Bioenergy hesitate. The PHS, which it originally looked down upon, seemed to be becoming Japan Bioenergy's "pride". Even if the PDC standard was developed, would it really have more users than the PHS?
Not to mention the Japanese's island mentality. The Japanese have always wanted to prove themselves and want to become a "great power". Now the PHS standard of Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company is more popular in the world than the CDMA standard launched by the colonial master America. Does that mean that Japan has surpassed America, even in this aspect only?
But this is enough to make Japan's internal affairs and countless Japanese people excited. Suddenly, the attitude of Japan's internal affairs and Japan's communications departments towards PHS technology is changing 180 degrees. On the contrary, they are not so concerned about the PDC standard!
No one knows whether Japan will abandon PDC and fully support PHS in the future, but Yasuo Nishiguchi knows that PHS will probably not disappear in Japan in the short term and may even become more and more popular.

In the past, Japan's more than 80 million PDC standard mobile phone users are likely to become more than 80 million PHS mobile phone users. Kyocera cannot just sit and watch all Japan's mobile phone users being snatched away by NTT and PHS. It is not just a matter of money. Don't Japanese local mobile phone companies like Kyocera have any shame?

These few years are the end of Japan's peak period in the field of science and technology. Many products such as lithography machines, home appliances, and electronic appliances are all the best in the world. If the domestic mobile phone market of Japan, which claims to be the best in the world in technology, is occupied by a mainland brand, then where will the face of the entire Japanese mobile phone industry be put? This is no longer a slap in the face, but a direct attack on Japanese mobile phone manufacturers!
Hearing what Yasuo Nishiguchi said, Hideo Tanimoto was filled with sorrow. What was the current situation of the PHS industry? The communication technology patents were controlled by Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Company, and the core patents of PHS mobile phones were controlled by Dongling Hi-Tech.

In addition, Kyocera is also one of Japan's telecommunications operators and is a sworn enemy of NTT. Will NTT open its PHS mobile phone market to Kyocera Telecom?

Nishiguchi Yasuo didn't care whether Tanimoto Hideo was suffering or not, he just wanted the result. "No matter what method is used, Kyocera mobile phones must take over the Japanese mobile phone market and then enter the overseas market. President Tanimoto Hideo, I hope you will not disappoint the board of directors and live up to the expectations of old President Kazuo Inamori!"

Hideo Tanimoto cursed in his heart but didn't dare to show it. He could only say "hi" a few times and walked out. After coming out, Hideo Tanimoto kicked silently towards Yasuo Nishiguchi's office.

Then, with a helpless look on his face, Tanimoto Hideo really couldn't think of how to make Dongling Hi-Tech, the parent company of Xiaolingtong, give the Xiaolingtong patent, which was making a fortune every day, to Kyocera, unless... they acquired Xiaolingtong? !

Not only Hideo Tanimoto and Kyocera Mobile are worried, other Japanese mobile phone manufacturers are not much better off. From the information that Yasuo Nishiguchi was able to find out, how could Toshiba, Fujitsu, Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, NEC and other Japanese companies with mobile phone businesses not have received the news?

These Japanese mobile phones are also a headache. If the Japanese Ministry of Communications really does not promote the PDC standard, Japan will enter the PHS era. Who would not be jealous of the market of hundreds of millions of Japanese mobile phone users?
The Japanese mobile phone industry is scratching its head and trying to find a way out of the impasse. Companies such as Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, Alcatel and Siemens, which just entered the mobile phone industry this year, are also having a headache facing the skyrocketing sales of PHS.

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Li Dongling has no control over how turbulent the overseas mobile phone industry is. At this time, Li Dongling is sitting aside, letting his stylist do his styling. He will be interviewed by several media outlets later, and the leading media is the interview team of Asia Weekly that came from Hong Kong specifically.

While the stylist was working, Li Dongling picked up a few technology industry newspapers that had just been delivered from overseas. The New Year was approaching and the technology industry was still not quiet. The most explosive news was that Masayoshi Son of Japan's SoftBank, instead of playing around with the Internet, suddenly acquired the computer memory stick company Kingston!
No one knows why SoftBank, which is doing well in software and investment, suddenly acquired Kingston, but the deal happened so suddenly.

SoftBank acquired 14.5% of Kingston's shares for US$80 billion. There are rumors that this means that Masayoshi Son is preparing to enter the computer hardware industry and even launch SoftBank's own computer brand.

(End of this chapter)