Reborn in America, I'm serious about making money.

Thanks to Zhang San's promotion, Q-Tong's C-network finally became the industry technical standard two years ago. Under such circumstances, the initial promotion was limited to the British Isles, mainland China, the Southern Dynasties, and island nations.

Q-Network has now lobbied many operators and started promoting it in North America. Compared to the G network in Europe, in order to gain more profits, North America is naturally more willing to promote the C network standard.

The slow adoption of CDMA users is also related to the scarcity of mobile phones. Under such circumstances, the only option is to manufacture mobile phones in large quantities to enrich the variety of mobile phones available.

Moreover, compared to GSM, CSM has far fewer brands and manufacturers, and it couldn't fully leverage its advantages during the feature phone era, which is obvious to all.

GSM mobile phone manufacturers, such as Moto, a leading global brand, quickly captured the global market. However, MOT, due to its belief in analog signals and its overly advanced Iridium satellite project, not only suffered financial difficulties but also ultimately went bankrupt.

As a partner and major shareholder of Q-Tong, Director Zhang San naturally had the right to advise or influence the decisions of Q-Tong's board of directors. At a board meeting, a director representative representing Zhang San suggested: "A large part of the reason we have few users is that we have a small number of mobile phones and our brand is not strong enough; if we were to enter the market ourselves, it would be a thankless task."

"Director, speak your mind. Everyone here is working for the company." The chairman spoke, wanting to hear the new director's advice.

"We can support a company and help it become a big brand like Ruojia."

The board members exchanged glances and nodded. Their biggest competitor was Ruoji, which had put a lot of effort into promoting G-Net.

"We have a much stronger advantage in data than Ruoji, but that's useless. The current equipment can't bring out that advantage."

These words immediately resonated with all the directors, who were all from technical backgrounds and therefore understood that this statement was well-founded.

"Therefore, we should have a price advantage to get more people to use our CDMA equipment."

At this point, one of the directors said, "This is a good proposal. Moreover, we can also collect patent fees. For a CDMA phone, we can collect a patent licensing fee of 2%-5%, and then they will also have to use our chips."

The others agreed, and the results of the meeting reached Zhang San's ears.

"What was bound to happen has finally happened."

He sighed. Q-Tong's patent trolling tactics were starting to show, and he seemed to have become the catalyst, but this was in his best interest.

The SOC architecture requires ARM's chip design and manufacturing, so ARM is also key. Moreover, ARM is also developing WIFI technology, which will allow them to lead the world in mobile devices and have more say.

But that doesn't matter. Zhang San will acquire more companies to gain more influence in the smart terminal market. Now that the decision is made, it's time to act.

Zhang San owns a VCD player factory in Shenzhen. The players he produces have begun to be sold globally and have achieved great success.

The average price of a house in Shenzhen is now over 6,000 yuan per square meter. Some places are more expensive, but some places are very cheap, but that doesn't matter.

A factory with money is different; there are hundreds of millions of cash lying on it.

There are three people in charge of this factory: Howard, the CEO from North America; Yang Shuli, the CFO from Hong Kong; and Sun Decai, the local business manager. These three have become the core personnel of the VCD factory. Today, they are going to have a meeting, which was sent from headquarters. During the meeting, the three communicated entirely in English. There was no other way; this is a foreign-invested enterprise.

"We received a message from headquarters instructing us to expand the factory and produce mobile phones..." Howard briefly explained the situation. The content was simple: this place would gradually be transformed into a mobile phone production base.

They can take advantage of Shenzhen's strengths in electronics manufacturing to have access to more components.

"This is a mobile phone assembly plant. The chips are supplied by the head office. There is also a packaging workshop here, and the equipment is also provided by the head office. Now they are asking us to get the factory site sorted out as soon as possible."

These factories are relatively easy to build; they are all single-story buildings with high ceilings. The main issue is the approval and purchase of the land, which requires contacting local officials.

"Buy the wasteland around us, level it, and then build the factory."

These were Yang Shuli's words. He knew that the wasteland next door was not privately owned, making it easier to acquire.

"Then let's get people started. We need to be quick; this is quite urgent." Howard also received information that if Shenzhen didn't agree, they could go to Dongguan, where land was cheaper and the cost of living was lower.

They are naturally willing to build a mobile phone factory if the VCD factory needs more land. Mobile phones are high-tech products, and they can also increase the city's visibility.

The land was approved quickly and sold to the VCD factory at the price of industrial land. If it were a factory, Shenzhen could have given them the land for free; however, they refused. The VCD factory bought the land in full with cash and stated that they would not take a single penny off the land.

This time, industrial land several times larger than the original VCD factory was included in the VCD factory's area; as soon as the land was approved, Howard immediately invited the local leaders to come and attend the groundbreaking ceremony the day after tomorrow.

The groundbreaking ceremony for the new factory was held solemnly, and the venue was arranged in a simple yet dignified manner.

Relevant leaders and guests took turns to deliver speeches. Finally, the highlight of the groundbreaking ceremony—the foundation-laying and soil-pouring ceremony—officially began. The leaders, holding iron shovels, jointly laid the foundation and poured soil for the new factory. Fortunately, Howard, Yang Shuli, and Sun Decai were there. If Zhang San were here, he wouldn't like attending such an event; he's too young, and among this group of people in their forties, he'd probably steal the spotlight from the leaders.

The entire groundbreaking ceremony was simple yet solemn, filled with joy. This also marks the beginning of the new factory rising from the ground here.

Golden Orange Mobile Phone Company, a factory with a golden orange logo, was officially established.

This isn't like building a skyscraper, but rather building a factory. Naturally, the construction speed is much faster than building a skyscraper. While the factory is under construction, the supporting facilities are slower. They need to build more than a dozen dormitory buildings to house the employees, which naturally takes much longer.

Otherwise, no employees would come to work, and besides, there aren't many people around the factory, so why would they hire any workers?