Coquettish Rebirth

After getting to know him for a while, Jia Hongjian realized that there is such a tangled and complicated relationship between Alcatel and Shanghai Bell——

Originally, there were three shareholders of Shanghai Bell, one was the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications back then, the current Ministry of Information Industry, the other was the Shanghai Stock Exchange, and the third was Bell Telephone Company in Belgium.Such a Shanghai Bell was a product of a joint venture between China and Belgian Bell during the honeymoon period between China and the United States in the early 80s. It mainly introduced various modern telecommunications technologies.Then the Belgian Bell company has the same name as Lucent's Bell Labs, because they were originally a family, but they were separated later-Bell Labs under AT&T opened a branch in Belgium.Then a lot of engineers were recruited in this branch to study various telecommunication technologies, but who knew the R&D research and development, as a result, the Belgian branch really developed a technology different from that of the US headquarters!

Then at&t saw it, and simply made the Belgian Bell branch independent and turned it into an independent subsidiary, which is responsible for developing and promoting the technologies developed by itself in Europe, while the Bell headquarters promotes and develops their own in the United States. Technology.From this point of view, Belgian Bell and Bell AG are sister organizations with basically the same position under AT&T.In other words, it can be considered that an old man gave birth to two children. Originally, the younger brother was helping his elder brother to work. Later, when he became full-fledged, he separated and went out to work alone. However, he had to pay a sum of money to the old man every month.And the eldest brother is the headquarters of Bell, and he lives with his father.

As a result, AT&T combined Bell and other miscellaneous companies to form Lucent.This is equivalent to letting the eldest son go out to fly solo, and the father gave the eldest son a part of the management of the eldest son.As a result, after Alcatel in France changed its boss in 1995, didn't they make every effort to sell all unrelated industries, and then concentrate on telecommunications?So I told AT&T that I wanted to buy my second son, which is the Belgian Bell company.AT&T agreed at that time, so after Belgian Bell was sold to Alcatel, Shanghai Bell originally belonged to almost 30% of Bell's shares, so it naturally belonged to Alcatel.

Next, Alcatel didn't care about how to deal with Shanghai Bell.They began to rush to grab the French domestic, European and African markets.It turned out to be a pass.Then when the reaction was a bit slow and there was no aggressive homework, I suddenly discovered why the former high-ranking competitors are now in the bottom of their fortunes!Then you want to buy Lucent, that is, you have to buy Lucent, the eldest brother of AT&T's second son, Belgian Bell.But Lucent, the big brother, is too arrogant, asking prices all over the sky.And Alcatel is not willing to be taken advantage of.So we broke up.After this trouble broke up.While thinking about how to enter the temporarily largest market in the world, Alcatel also began to consider what to do if it could not enter the US market.As a result, such a preparatory trick made them notice such a fast-growing market in China, and then they suddenly remembered that they had an equity stake in a Chinese company?

Next.After their investigation, they found that although Shanghai Bell was a joint venture product of Bell, an authoritative Chinese company and a local city, although it had good technology, who knew that the order for domestic digital program-controlled switches in the early 90s could not be grabbed—— Because Shanghu Bell is too foreign, all the products are European standards, and the price of the goods is similar to that of Europe. How can you compare the price with the cheap goods of Huaxia Hi-Tech?So all of a sudden, this big order belongs to Huaxia Hi-Tech, and Shanghu Beier is the son of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. They can't let them suffer, right?Therefore, those base stations in the field of gs-m mobile phones are all used by Shanghai Bell.At that time, the result of relevant parties' thinking was that although the equipment orders for fixed-line telephones were taken away by Huaxia Hi-Tech, mobile is also very promising!But who knows that Huaxia Hi-Tech came out with the phs PHS system soon after, and as a result, the whole country is full of PHS, but the demand for gs-m mobile phones has not increased rapidly!So the life in Shanghai Beier didn't get any easier!That is to say, in the past two years, everyone has gradually become rich, and they all began to feel that the PHS signal is not very good, and some people have started to switch to gs-m mobile phones. The days of going to Shanghai Bell are only as good as the clouds and the moon. .

At this time, Alcatel saw this situation, and they also expected that China's gs-m mobile phone would have a great future in the future, and because they bought Belgian Bell, they had some technology in the field of mobile phone communication, and they even brought something Gprs Internet access, even 3G communication, they have a little bit of technology!So they thought about further expanding the Chinese market that they hadn't noticed before through Shanghai Bell!In addition, China is about to join the WTO, that is to say, from 2002, China will allow such a joint venture company controlled by a foreign manufacturer to produce or even a wholly foreign-owned enterprise to appear.So they Alcatel want to increase capital holdings.After making such a request, the Ministry of Information Industry, which was transformed into the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications after its reorganization, was of course not happy. Originally, they were the controlling shareholder, and with the addition of Shanghai Stock Exchange, the shares reached 70%, while Alcatel only had 30%. Are you going to sell shares to Alcatel?As a result, Alcatel threatened, saying that if he does not sell his shares, he will withdraw the capital, and he will definitely not have various technical support in the future, you Chinese go play on your own!

Therefore, this matter has become either sold to Alcatel's excess 20% shares plus 1 share, allowing Alcatel to take control, or to find an alternative manufacturer to take over.On the one hand, they are discussing whether they can give the shares to Alcatel. On the other hand, of course, they are looking for a backup. Of course, they need to see if there is a company that has the technology and strength to step up!As a result, when looking for a company that can stand up to them, Huaxia Hi-Tech immediately came to mind!

"What the Ministry of Information Industry and our city mean is that if you are willing, you can pay some money to take over the shares of Alcatel. If you are short of money, you can pay it later. The key is to be able to top it up. And provide technical support to Shanghai Bell, and authorize phs PHS to Shanghai Bell to make some money..." Cheng Yu said.

Jia Hongjian could tell that what Cheng Yu meant was to ask Jia Hongjian to pull Shanghu Bell!It means that we have eaten meat, so let Bell drink some soup!This is of course no problem!But Jia Hongjian had another problem in mind.Seeing Jia Hongjian thinking so silently, Cheng Yu smiled and said: "Hongjian, we are old acquaintances, let's open the skylight to be honest, this time we really want you to earn a little less money and let Bell earn, but Don't worry, the organization will not let you suffer, and the mobile phone market will be huge in the future, Bell will join forces with you..."

"No, no..." Who knew that Jia Hongjian shook his hand at this moment and said, "I'm not afraid of losing money. I also know that Huaxia Hi-Tech today is the result of the support of the party and the government. Without the support of the party and the government, absolutely We will not be where we are today. The organization asks us to contribute, how can we say that we are not willing to be afraid of pain? As long as the organization says a word, we will never say anything else!" Look!How bold Jia Hongjian said this!Even if you know it's a lie, it sounds comfortable!It's much more comfortable than a sticky bargaining posture, right?But at this moment, Jia Hongjian added, "I was thinking about other things... Secretary, you said that Huaxia Hi-Tech separated the telecommunications equipment department and merged it into Shanghai Beibei... How about it? At that time, everyone will be a family, we make money because they make money, and then we can work together to make gs-m mobile phones and gprs Internet equipment industries... What do you think?"

That's right!Of course, Jia Hongjian didn't think for so long about simply paying the money. He was thinking about how to maximize the benefits!The telecommunications departments of Shanghai Bell and Huaxia Hi-Tech, that is, Luo Feng's business duplication is too high. If this is the case, it is better to merge the two parties!Moreover, Shanghu Bell also obtained some technologies such as gs-m and gprs from Shanghu Bell, which was acquired under Alcatel, a few years ago. This is also beneficial to Huaxia Hi-Tech, right?We have obtained these technologies, let Luo Feng and the others develop them for two years, and when the population of gs-m mobile phones in China increases greatly, can't we also sell them to mobile and China Unicom base station equipment?This is also the market is all money!In addition, when they enter various third world markets in the future, they can build various base stations for them. Isn't this also money?Even though it seems that the Ministry of Information Industry and the Shanghai Stock Exchange hold a large share, if our department with a turnover of more than 100 billion in the past ten years has been independently merged in at a price, it will be a mess to dilute their shares. In the end, Huaxia Hi-Tech took the controlling stake!

Not to mention, the Ministry of Information Industry is the immediate management department of various telecommunications equipment manufacturers, which is tantamount to a real father!Isn't it satisfying to have your own father come over to buy shares?Can foreigners compete with us for domestic orders if there are relatives' shares?Besides, in order to avoid suspicion or something, the Ministry of Information Industry is going to sell shares, can't we also buy them?Looking back, Huaxia Hi-Tech holds the vast majority of the shares, and the Shanghai Stock Exchange has a small share. Then it is not easy for us to follow the Shanghai Stock Exchange to get back the shares?In the end, why didn't this joint venture company become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Huaxia Hi-Tech?

When Jia Hongjian made this proposal, Cheng Yu was really shocked!Cheng Yu didn't expect Jia Hongjian to be so generous that he could contribute such a large department as a joint venture with Shanghai Bell.From Cheng Yu's point of view, this is not Huaxia Hi-Tech's annexation of Shanghai Bell, but that it really dragged a little brother, treating people like brothers and sharing such a big market together! "Hung-chien... are you sure? This plan is too big, you have to think it through. If you think it through, I will report it to the higher authorities!" Cheng Yu was quite concerned and asked Jia Hongjian to think more... What a pity, After all, he is not in business. He did not expect Jia Hongjian to start thinking about buying back all the shares after four or five years... (To be continued...)