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   Chapter 450 Times have changed

  Alcatel's mobile phone sales are hot, and it's hard to say how much profit I got, but by hyping up the Alcatel mobile phone concept stocks to win Wall Street institutions, and the telecommunications industry of mobile Internet concept stocks, they are making crazy money.

The stock prices of   Telegraph, etc. rose collectively, and many telecommunications giants announced their entry into the mobile Internet industry and established their own mobile Internet business in America.

And America Telecom, which is tied to the P1 mobile phone, naturally also soared with its valuation. Now America Telecom is the first mobile Internet company to put into operation in America, although it has only opened several big cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, and Houston. The mobile network can be considered to be put into operation!

Last year, with the frenzy brought about by the new telecommunications law, coupled with the broadband line from Chicago to Wall Street, and the merger with the broadband division of the Telephone and Telegraph Group, the valuation of America Telecom has soared, reaching 10 billion US dollars. The point of the knife.

This valuation must be a lot of water, and even some media ridicule, the water level of America Telecom is squeezed, and the water level of America's Great Lakes will rise by a few points. It is believed that the share price of America Telecom is entirely Song Yang and Enron Group, etc. Shareholders, given the hype, are not worth such a valuation at all. America Telecom is what Song Yang used to cash out.

But now, this kind of voice has disappeared overnight. Instead, they have started touting America Telecom. In theory, every time a P1 mobile phone is sold, America Telecom will add one mobile network user. According to this theory, then The number of mobile network users of America Telecom will also exceed millions. These users can bring more than tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of dollars of stable revenue to America Telecom every month...

   Of course, in fact, we all know that it is impossible to achieve this level at the moment. It is impossible for other telecom giants to watch America Telecom steal the entire mobile Internet market and remain indifferent.

   But it does not hinder the telecommunications industry to fool the outside world, and America Telecom will naturally make a fortune. The higher the valuation is now, the more leeks will be circled when it goes public!

   Of course, some people laugh and some people estimate it. Almost at a time when the supply of P1 mobile phones is in short supply and the telecom industry is touting the arrival of the mobile Internet era, Motorola's stock price has almost fallen into a dog.

The hot sale of P1 mobile phones, in America, the most direct competitor is Motorola, which is also a local brand. Motorola was beaten by Nokia, and now another Alcatel mobile phone has come, and it has directly started to **** the original Motorola of America. The market of the old nest.

In addition to the competition in the mobile phone industry, the Iridium project, which has just launched its first communication satellite, has also fallen into an embarrassing situation. The Iridium project was originally facing competition from traditional telecom operators. Now that there is a mobile network, the Iridium project will win over The difficulty of the user is even more difficult, and the risk has increased again...

  The mobile phone and communication businesses are all threatened, and the semiconductor business is sluggish. Motorola's plight is almost visible to the naked eye, and the stock price has naturally plummeted.

   Motorola's management headed by Sandel is also very helpless. It is clear that Motorola is still the second largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world. The low-cost mobile phone D160 launched, the sales volume far exceeds the current P1, but now it is rumored that Motorola is about to collapse.

The parts suppliers of Alcatel mobile phones in the world are all working hard to produce various parts and components to Yanjing, and the production capacity of P1 has also begun to soar. In less than half a month, the daily production capacity has increased from 10,000 units to More than 20,000 copies.

  According to external forecasts, when the production capacity of Alcatel mobile phones gradually increases, this supply shortage situation will be changed, and the sales of P1 mobile phones will gradually decrease and stabilize.

Unexpectedly, after the production capacity of Alcatel mobile phones soared, not only did it not reduce production capacity, but instead announced that it would maintain the P1 production capacity of more than one million units per month. As soon as this news came out, the entire electronics industry was attracted. An uproar!

   The outside world does not know whether the Alcatel mobile phone has the confidence to make the P1 mobile phone a generation of magic phones, can maintain the sales period in "years", or is it really the top iron.

   According to this output, by the end of the year, the production capacity of P1 will definitely exceed 10 million units, which is more than double the sales estimated by Wall Street analysts!

If    can really achieve this kind of sales volume, then Alcatel mobile phone will become the fourth largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world after Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson, and it can achieve this result with only one model.

   "Jeff, what do you think of the current P1 phone?"

   In front of the door of Palm Company, Jeff Hawkins, who just arrived at the door, was stopped by the media. This media was the same media that Hawkins interviewed him on TV before.

  Hawkins frowned. He has been keeping a low profile these days. Unexpectedly, the media just chased after him. Looking at the footage that was about to hit his face, Hawkins knew what happened today, and he was afraid that he would not be able to escape.

   "P1 is a somewhat innovative mobile phone, but that's all, Palm has already realized some functions of P1, and there will be more powerful functions in the future!"

Hawkins, who knew what the media was here for, said with a stern face, with the popularity of the P1 mobile phone, the media magazines and celebrities' comments on the Alcatel mobile phone were all turned over, including Hawkins, of course, when the The remarks about Alcatel mobile phones were also dug up.

  As an old gun in the electronic technology industry, Hawkins cannot easily admit defeat. It is quite difficult to hear that the P1 mobile phone is good in his mouth. However, Hawkins is more, still touting his own Palm handheld.

The media will naturally not let Hawkins go before they can find the door of Palm. "President Hawkins, the shipments of P1 mobile phones this year will probably surpass Palm. According to the news of Alcatel mobile phones, the sales volume of P1 mobile phones this year will follow that of the company. It will be possible to fully surpass the Palm handheld..."

   Hearing this, Hawkins couldn't hold back any longer. He couldn't help but said, "Absolutely impossible, Palm can't be surpassed. I believe Palm is the best miniature handheld electronic product!"

   "President Hawkins, do you think it's impossible for Alcatel's P1 phone to reach the advertised sales?!"

Hearing this, the reporter finally got the news he wanted, and asked Hawkins, if nothing else, when the news of this TV station at night, it would appear that Hawkins looked down on the P1 mobile phone and thought that the P1 mobile phone would usher in the news. Slip and fall, the Saipan system was crushed by the Palm system, etc. In terms of media doing things, the routines are not too familiar.

   After finishing speaking, Hawkins knew that he was being tricked. The handheld market was only big. The entire market this year was less than 1.5 billion US dollars. It was a world away from the mobile phone industry.

This year, Palm suffered from internal injuries, and it only managed to sell more than one million units, but the momentum of P1 is really too fierce. The mobile phone industry has long been a market of hundreds of billions of dollars, and the sales of one explosive phone exceeded 100. Ten thousand or even ten million is possible. The brand influence of Alcatel mobile phone is not as good as that of Nokia, but now the momentum of P1 mobile phone, the ghost knows whether it will explode several times in sales.

   But at this point, in front of the media, Hawkins couldn't slap himself in the face, or belittle Palm or something.

  Hawkins can only bite the bullet and say, "I said, the P1 is a good phone, but I have to say that the Palm handheld is the best one, both in terms of system and design!"

After    finished speaking, without waiting for the media to ask any more questions, Hawkins walked into the Palm company and asked people to keep the media out of the door.

   "There are scientific and technological media reports that mobile phone manufacturers such as Sony, Fujitsu, Panasonic, Siemens, Ericsson, Sanyo, etc., intend to join the Saipan Alliance and launch mobile phones equipped with the Saipan system. Mobile phone manufacturers such as Nokia and Motorola are also considering it.

  If the news comes true, Saipan system will become the world's largest microelectronic operating system, surpassing PalmOs system, Microsoft CE and other microelectronic product systems! "

Just when he got home in the evening and turned on the TV, Hawkins heard the news that he was heartbroken. Watching the news on the TV, Hawkins couldn't understand what Song Yang was playing, and the Alcatel mobile phone actually opened the Saipan system. , licensed to other manufacturers.

And the mobile phone giants like Sony and Ericsson are willing to swallow their voices, accept the agreement of Alcatel mobile phone and join the Saipan Alliance, which makes Hawkins unable to figure out that in his years ago, he was going to fight with Microsoft. Yes, even death will not accept Microsoft's CE system and install it on Palm handhelds.

   Hawkins, who was still frowning, heard another news that made his eyes widen.

Just listen to the voice of the host in the TV news, "From a third-party data statistics agency, today's Alcatel P1 mobile phone has once again achieved a single-day sales of 150,000 units. America, Western Europe, Lao Maozi, Asia and other markets, for The demand for P1 mobile phones is strong, and the current global sales volume of P1 has exceeded 410,000 units.

  Hawkins watched the news on TV in disbelief. In front of the newly opened flagship store of America Telecom in London, there was a long queue, all of them were users who were ready to snap up P1 mobile phones.

As America Telecom's first store in Europe, it is also the first step to expand its telecom business to the European market. America Telecom's London flagship store has transferred nearly 80,000 P1 machines from Alcatel mobile phones today. Users who come to buy today can get 20% off the price.

   There was also a British rock band invited to perform for the users who were queuing up. The scene looked very noisy.

   Watching the news on TV, Hawkins' scalp was numb, and the performance of the P1 mobile phone subverted Hawkins' worldview. His experience, on P1, was completely broken.

It has only been so long since the P1 went on sale, and it has sold more than 400,000 units. It seems that it is just around the corner. At that time, it was the time when the Palm handheld was surpassed. Hawkins could not imagine that day. How the media would treat him and Palm, Hawkins was at a loss for a while, wondering if the era that belonged to his group was really coming to an end...

   (end of this chapter)