bloom america

Chapter Father of Cell Phones

"Motorola's turnover last year exceeded 200 million. If the other party wants to compete with us, it will definitely be a strong opponent. I don't think we should compete with them. After all, we are just a dazzling technology in the TV industry.

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Olson seems to be leaning more conservatively.

On the sidelines, Sanders shook his head.

"We have enough technology, why should we shrink back?"

In Catherine's time, Sanders was the only one who could compete with Intel, and he never compromised.

Now, Sanders seems to have no intention of compromising.

"Once we give in, the other side will push even further. This is not just a matter of showing off. The other side is declaring war."

Sanders once worked for Motorola, and he knew this old employer very well.

"Once the other party enters our semiconductor industry, it will be a disaster."

Yes, temporary concessions will only make the other party more uncooperative.

"This is a battle of standards."

Catherine said so.

"Um?"

Everyone else looked at Catherine strangely.

"It is absolutely impossible to give in in this aspect. If we have to give in, we will lose not only the TV market, but also the entire display research plan. Fed and SED must not give up. Once this happens,

If we give up, it means the Pentagon is in trouble, and the next budget... will be very troublesome."

Catherine looked around.

"On the contrary, if we defeat Motorola, it will prove that we have stronger technology in the field of TVs and monitors. Our monitor has already achieved flat screen, and what we have to do next is to increase the resolution of the monitor.

Go taller while making the display thinner."

Catherine had already planned to jump directly to LCD and develop fed and sed. She did not allow her plan to be disrupted.

"What we have to do now is not this. Everyone, the research on vcd is our most important thing. By the way, the release of the supercomputer to the market this time will be delayed by three months."

If we release the supercomputer now, it is likely to cause a strong reaction from IBM, so we can only postpone it.

After all, research also has costs, and recovering costs step by step is the way to go.

"As long as VCD appears, our color difference component standard can be fully promoted. The color difference standard is the guarantee of our victory."

The price of VCD is cheaper than video tape, and the effect is comparable to that of laser disc. It is very advantageous. As long as VCD can be launched and promoted, Motorola will have no choice but to accept the color difference standard.

When the joint statement on color difference components was signed, neither Motorola nor Sony were present.

But I didn't expect that the other party would give me a hard blow at this time.

Motorola was involved in the television industry in the late 1940s. The last time they didn't appear, they were probably already negotiating with Sony, or had already begun cooperation.

Panasonic is probably a spy or a wallflower, and the entire negotiation process was just soy sauce.

After World War II, Japan's electronics industry developed rapidly. It soon opened up markets around the world. Facing the menacing Japanese, Motorola, which produced televisions, retreated steadily. In 1974, Motorola finally could no longer persist and had to

He reluctantly sold the TV factory to Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation.

But the current history is completely different.

Because of the existence of Apple, Japanese companies are now in an embarrassing situation, so they have turned to American companies for help. Now Motorola still has a lot of say in the TV industry.

Now that the war has begun, Catherine is ready to completely defeat Motorola and Sony.

In fact, Catherine has never understood the short-sightedness of these American companies. What they have done is to create a large number of Japanese high-tech companies, and these companies will pursue American companies fiercely until they are cut off by the United States in the 1980s.

, and then stopped, but Japan’s technology accumulation has been completed. Although the established Japanese companies stopped for a while, they came back more than ten years later and once again caused a great impact on the American market.

This is a limitation caused by the times, and Catherine cannot blame them.

"Can't the Japanese just calm down a little bit..."

Catherine was really annoyed.

In my previous life, I was dissatisfied with the Japanese. In this life, I am in the United States in the 1960s. The United States and Japan are in their honeymoon period. Japan has destroyed Detroit, and the "Kingdom of Dad" has not come forward to defeat Japan.

Now, I can only rely on myself...

Returning to her office in a hurry, Catherine said: "Elsa, call Westinghouse and GM and I want to discuss it with them..."

Before she finished speaking, she shook her head. Elsa was not here now, but lived in her own manor. Catherine intended to let Elsa be pure for a while, and then untie her knot.

Catherine picked up the company's phone and then arranged her meeting plan.

Immediately afterwards, there was a knock on the office door.

"Come in."

At this time, a young man pushed past them and walked in.

"Martin Cooper?"

"Yes, ma'am."

Catherine nodded.

"Can you explain to me the report on your mobile phone?"

Catherine has read that report, and in fact, she knows more about the mobile phone situation than Martin Cooper does.

"Yes, ma'am." He was a little cautious. "Although almost every household now has a landline phone, landline phones are actually not practical. Human beings are social creatures, and we cannot be tied to one place by a phone.

place."

Unlike Sanders, this man was polite and seemed a little reserved.

"I watched "Star Trek" produced by DreamWorks, which is owned by Ark, and oh, it was a good movie. I got inspiration from it, and then I designed this..."

Catherine took out the model of the mobile phone that Martin Cooper handed over.

"Why did you come here from Motorola in the first place?"

Catherine asked again.

"Because my plan... is a mobile communications plan, and Motorola doesn't have any interest in it."

Indeed, Motorola and AT※T began to be interested in mobile phones in the late 1960s, and it is only now in 1966...

"So, when I saw America Mobile's job advertisement, I came here."

Catherine nodded.

America Mobile is another company owned by Catherine. In addition, there is American Unicom.

In Catherine's vision, US Telecom is responsible for the laying and maintenance of optical fiber, and the most important thing is to make money from the country - as long as the intercity optical fiber plan can be passed, although it has been rejected once.

American Unicom is a network operator. In fact, Catherine's experimental network has been handed over to American Unicom and it has begun to accumulate experience. For the time being, its profits are the same as those of American Telecom, which is negative.

The third company is America Mobile.

In fact, America Mobile only had a name at first, and Catherine was worried that this trademark would be registered by others, which would be a tragedy.

But with Motorola's offensive, Catherine's American Mobile Communications Company immediately began to deploy, and its purpose was very clear - for the mobile communications market

Catherine is openly recruiting talents for various mobile communications.

This recruitment is also unique.

Because the recruitment is mainly for researchers, Catherine stipulates that if you have a good idea about communications and mobile communications, that is, an idea, as long as you can come up with a creative idea and have sufficient theoretical support, you can be admitted, and Catherine is here

Bian was checking it in person, but he didn't expect that within a few days, Martin Cooper would show up with his mobile phone model.

Catherine looked at the man in front of her.

Martin Cooper's motivation for mobile phones came from the humiliation he suffered in his early years.

He is the future father of mobile phones, but the reason why he "went all the way" in the research and development of mobile phones was because of his early years.

In his early years, when Cooper just graduated from college, he hoped that he could work at Bell Labs and study radio, but he was given a cold reception.

After being looked down upon, Cooper joined Motorola.

And wireless phones became Cooper’s lifelong pursuit.

So much so that the first thing Cooper did was call his competitor, which made him very angry.

In fact, Cooper's life at Motorola was not going well.

At the beginning, Cooper insisted on developing car wireless phones. His unconventional design did not like his boss, who always said nagging: This guy is white and does not look like a telephone at all.

Cooper's pursuit of mobile phones was fanatical. When he found that after the mobile phone came out, Motorola began to become unprogressive, he immediately left Motorola and established his own company.

When he discovered that the field of wireless technology was the culprit that restricted mobile phone calls, he immediately sold his company, then established array company and began to research smart antennas. Later, this technology was widely used in 2g and 3g networks.

"Mr. Cooper, what do you think is the biggest difficulty if wireless communication is to be implemented?"

"Mobile communications face many problems, but the main goal is to shrink the machine and increase the capacity and life of the battery."

Catherine nodded.

"What are the uses of wireless networks?" Catherine's next question made Cooper a little stunned.

"The development of wireless networks will bring unprecedented changes to our communications."

This answer disappointed Catherine a little.

Catherine thought for a while and then asked: "So, now we have the following situation. My company needs to lay out urban fiber optic networks and build fiber optic base stations, but at this time, I also need to lay out base stations for mobile phones, but I have no money.

It’s limited, what should I do at this time?”

Many people don't understand the concept of fiber optics, but fortunately for Cooper, he is not one of them.

"We can completely connect the signal to the optical fiber network. We only need to design a few more base stations. Although it will increase some costs, it will be very beneficial to the future promotion of optical fiber, because calculated this way, the cost has actually been reduced a lot.

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Catherine nodded again. The integration of three networks into one had always been Catherine's idea. If, as Cooper said, the mobile phone signal could also be connected, it would be just right.

"Okay, Mr. Cooper, America Mobile welcomes you to join us."

Catherine handed over the contract she had prepared.

Later, Motorola became famous for its mobile phones. Catherine's move could be said to be a blow to the bottom of the pot, directly wiping out half of Motorola's future.

The other party attacked Catherine from the television industry, but Catherine made a huge detour and directly cut off the other party's future.

But the only thing she didn't expect was that Martin Cooper would come to apply for the job in person. This was the key to Catherine defeating Motorola.