If Apple is the king of smartphones in the future, then Lokia will be the king of the feature phone era from now until the next ten years.
The Rokia Group, which was born in Finland, has many industries. Its initial entry into the mobile phone industry was just to cooperate with the company's communications industry.
Lukia Mobile started out as just a department within the Lukia Group. It was only in the past few years that the mobile phone industry developed rapidly that Lukia executives began to pay attention to the mobile phone industry and established a separate Lukia Mobile Company.
Li Yuhang's visit this time was not a hasty one. Negotiations on cooperation with Rokia Company had lasted for nearly four months. Almost at the same time that Wang Xueqin came to Western Europe to discuss the acquisition of automobile manufacturing companies, the Marketing Operations Department of Yuan Lingjiang Electrical Appliance Chain Group
Director Yao Wenhui came here.
The main purpose is to discuss cooperation with Finland's Logia and Sweden's Ericsson in the mobile phone and communications industries.
The main thing is technical cooperation. To put it simply, Li Yuhang hopes to buy out the technology license at a one-time price.
Li Yuhang is deeply aware of how big the mobile phone and mobile communications market will be in the future. In this regard, he would rather spend a little more money to buy it out in one go instead of paying a certain amount of royalties for each mobile phone manufactured, which is really a loss.
Moreover, the current mobile communication technology is not too demanding. It is still only the 2G era. In addition, the potential of the mobile phone market and mobile communication market has not really exploded. For the technical aspect, these companies have not paid special attention to it. When the price is in place,
Next, you can still get a permanent authorization.
This is also because Li Yuhang is too ambitious. Whether it is mobile phones, communications or cars, he is not willing to just be an assembler. Otherwise, he would have set up a company long ago. He does not want to play in a company that does not have its own technology, and that would also be a waste of money.
It is very easy to get stuck in the upstream supply chain.
Compared with those in the automobile industry, this trip to Finland was relatively relaxed. Yao Wenhui and the other party had basically finished the discussions. He came only to sign a contract.
The acquisition of mobile phone technology and even communication technology this time was carried out by Nanhu Fund, and the company's headquarters will be in Xiangjiang, so it will not be restricted on some other levels.
Many times both parties clearly know what is going on, but just for some so-called unnecessary trouble, they always have to go around in a circle. Even if it is obviously not within the limit, they try their best to avoid going that way.
Anyway, it doesn’t matter to Li Yuhang. Where the headquarters is does not affect where he places the production base. As long as he has the technology, there are many ways to operate it later.
At the same time, he also complained about the top management of Lukia. The other party cooperated with China in the field of communications and there was no technology that they could not provide, but he was like this or that.
He seriously suspected that the other party did not want him to dominate the domestic market. Once his headquarters was in Hong Kong, his mobile phones would be imported products just like Lukia. Under the influence of tariffs, it would not be easy for him to start a price war.
There are all old foxes in the shopping mall, who not only want to make money from their opponents, but also want to limit their opponents.
For example, this authorization is only authorized to Guanghua Technology Company, and there are many clauses behind it. The first thing is that the technology must not be licensed or transferred to other companies.
It also stipulates that once the registration place and headquarters of Guanghua Technology Company change, Lukia will withdraw the technology license free of charge.
I have to say that Luojia has thought very carefully. They are quite optimistic about the mainland market, but the price offered by Guanghua Technology Company, a subsidiary of Nanhu Fund, is quite attractive, so they came up with a way to get the best of both worlds in their opinion.
Moreover, they only license the 2G era technology of Guanghua Technology Company. Now that their 3G era technology has made very good progress, it is obviously impossible for Guanghua Technology Company to catch up with them.
They knew what Li Yuhang was up to. The mobile phone technology was just incidental. The most important thing was their communication technology.
The name was to buy mobile phone technology and supporting related technology licenses from them, but most of the listed technologies were communication technologies.
As for mobile phone technology, whether it is relatively ordinary batteries, screens, or core chips, there is basically no such thing.
To be honest, if Li Yuhang had not used Nanhu Fund and Guanghua Technology Company headquartered in Hong Kong to negotiate technology buyout authorization, the other party would not have negotiated with him at all if they knew his nationality.
Sometimes I have to say that it is not unreasonable to say that Hong Kong can serve as a bridgehead between China and the West. Domestic industries often use Xiangjiang as a bridgehead when going global, and many multinational companies will also use Xiangjiang as a bridgehead when entering the mainland.
In many aspects, restrictions in Xiangjiang are far lower than those in the mainland. Some companies have placed their headquarters in Xiangjiang so that they can operate more easily.
At the Logia headquarters, Li Yuhang read the contract, and then asked Tao Chengbo who came over to check the contract carefully. After making sure that there were no problems, he signed his name on it.
Don’t look down on the current 2G technology. Although it is just a licensing buyout, Li Yuhang spent 2.5 billion US dollars to get it.
At this time, 2g communications are very popular. Although many companies have made good achievements in 3g, they have not yet been officially launched. Therefore, just a license cost them a very high price.
Of course, in addition to 2G technology, these 2.5 billion also picked up some mobile phone technology. I don’t know whether the future development of communication technology will be good, but mobile phones can be developed first.
Of course, Li Yuhang must have been taken advantage of by Rocky this time. After all, in their opinion, a technology that will be obsolete in two or three years can get 2.5 billion US dollars in one go just by licensing it to one company. They are quite satisfied.
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With this funding, they can accelerate the research and development of 3G and lead other mobile communication technology companies in the world.
Li Yuhang does not feel that he is at a loss. With this technology, he can conduct research and development based on it. He is not particularly interested in 2g or even 3g, and he does not expect to catch up with giants such as Logia and Ericsson in a short time.
As long as he turns over in 4g and 5g in the future, it will save him huge licensing fees. Compared with the future income, what he has paid so far is just a drizzle.
This guy has been wandering around the stock market anyway, and it was blown by the strong wind. It doesn't hurt to use it. I'm afraid not many people will make such a big bet like him.
After the two parties signed the contract, the president of Lukia said with a smile: "Mr. Li, I am very happy to reach this cooperation with you. In addition, our Lukia plans to establish a mobile phone production base in mainland China. I wonder if Mr. Li is interested.
cooperate?"
Li Yuhang can only say that the other party is definitely an old fox. One is that Li Yuhang has already acquired a lot of Lukia mobile phone technology. Except for the core technology, they are not worried about the loss of technology.
In addition, they are interested in the influence of the Canaan series flag in the country. With the cooperation of Li Yuhang, for their own interests, there is no need for Lokia to panic, Canaan series will promote Lokia mobile phones.
However, Li Yuhang is still interested in this aspect. He will do OEM work for Lukia first and also gain experience for his own mobile phone company. He estimates that Lukia is also involved in this aspect, otherwise the other party would not mention it rashly.
To put it bluntly, it is still profit. Li Yuhang has enough use value, so Lukia took this opportunity to find him. Similarly, this matter also has use value for Li Yuhang, so this cooperation can be easily achieved.