America's Road to Fame

Chapter 455 Mutual Benefit
Obviously Sun Zhengyi also hopes to continue to use his "time machine" theory to succeed again in the telecommunications industry in the United States.

However, Chen William is not optimistic about his acquisition, because he remembers that in his previous life, Sun Zhengyi also spent more than 200 billion US dollars to successfully acquire Sprint Nextel-this transaction can pass the supervision of the United States. Sun Zhengyi's American citizenship is also an important reason.

However, his transformation of this company was not considered successful. The continuous investment of funds also dragged down SoftBank Group, causing its book liabilities to reach 400 billion US dollars at one time.

It was not until 2020 that Sun Zhengyi sold the company after struggling to pass the audit of the United States, which slowed down SoftBank Group.

So it's clear that this is destined to be an unsuccessful acquisition, at least not as successful as Son's previous purchase of Vodafone's Japanese business.

After all, times have changed, and telecom companies are also facing challenges from Internet giants, just like their mobile phone and SMS services are being replaced by text, voice and video chats on mobile social apps such as HOLA.

Very similar to this, the current cable TV operators in the United States are also facing challenges from Siri and Netflix.

After the success of the Siri smart speaker, at the beginning of this year, the Siri company continued to launch the Siri box with integrated artificial intelligence AI.

The launch of this product was immediately welcomed by the niche.

As mentioned later, in Sun Zhengyi, you need to watch TV, and you also need to choose various packages. Those wireless TV operators rely on various packages to retreat and bundle marketing.

Maybe you just watch the NBA twice, but you also need to order a package that includes other channels for this, and pay expensive fees.

But now it’s the same. The only option for TV series in the family is to buy channel packages. You even need to buy channel packages from any wireless TV operator, connect the Internet to the TV through the Siri box, and then In the video software including Netflix streaming media under the Internet, you can order the programs you hate.

This is true, but you need to buy the entire package because of the channel you hate, as in the following, and you need to watch online video programs according to the program schedule, and you can freely go back and watch at any time.

The appearance of the Siri box has changed the habit of many people watching TV and brought them a more free experience. Therefore, once this product was launched, it was very popular among Sun Zhengyi and quickly expanded to overseas markets.

Therefore, the traditional operation method is destined to be subject to cross-industry competition behind the technology, and there will be more and more profit points.

Just like the popularization of WiFi, mobile traffic tariffs will rise slightly; the popularization of mobile social networking, call and SMS revenue will also decline tragically.

It's just that for a guy like William Chen who already doesn't have his own set of investment theories, it's hard to be persuaded by Chong Yi, and there's no need for the United States to convince him.

He will put forward his own opinions, but the other party insists on withdrawing this kind of acquisition, and the United States will also use its influence to help Sun Zhengyi.

After all, for both sides, in their respective advantageous home courts, they can retreat and help each other.

Therefore, although the United States put forward its own views on this acquisition to him, it also expressed that it has no other plans for the time being. It will participate in this acquisition-the main business scope of SP Telecom in the future is Atlanta Island and the surrounding South Pacific region, and whether it is necessary to retreat into Sun Zhengyi's native land.

But he still said that if Zheng Fufan withdraws the acquisition of Sprint Nextel, Sun Zhengyi's eighth smallest telecom operator, he will provide support within his ability.

Next, America talked about his main purpose of meeting William Chen this time, hoping that the other party would introduce him, meet with Sony, and help him complete the acquisition of part of Sony's business.

In the very early days, Zheng Fufan had no contact with Sony Corporation. At that time, he bought back the copyright of "Spider-Man" for US$5 million.

This transaction in the United States now seems to be a wise decision, but at the time it also brought precious cash income to Sony, which was in a downturn.

It's just that now, the head of Sony is Howard Stringer, the Sun Zhengyi who dealt with him when he bought back the copyright of "Spider-Man" in the United States.

Because of seven consecutive years of losses, in the second half of this year, Howard Stringer left the helm of Sony Corporation. The new president and CEO of Sony is not from Sony's most important electronic technology department. Hirai Kazuo, he is a marketing background.

The current Sony Group's business is mainly concentrated in the seven small fields of electronics, games, entertainment, and finance, while what the United States values ​​is their traditional advantageous sector, the production and R&D capabilities of consumer electronics.

Before Kazuo Hirai took office, in order to take Sony out of the quagmire, he carried out drastic reforms to the company, prepared to abolish many projects, and focused on the transformation in the direction of "consumer electronics + entertainment", and actively promoted the development of mobile phones. The development of the Internet field is retrograde.

And if it develops in these areas, America's own company is extremely weak in the direction of Internet + entertainment. What he sees are those parts that Sony itself has paid more attention to. Therefore, this time when I came to Tokyo, A very important purpose is to try to acquire part of Sony's business.

William Chen naturally agreed to the request of the United States. After all, the two sides are mutually beneficial. He needs the help of the United States in Sun Zhengyi, so he will do his best to help the other party in Japan.

"William, have you taken a look at Sony's mobile phone business?"

As a collaborator, William Chen naturally had no detailed understanding of the business on the American flag.Thinking of his recent layout in the semiconductor industry, it is difficult for William Chen to make such a guess.

Speaking of Sony's mobile phone business, a name - Sony Ericsson, that is, Sony Ericsson, can be missed.

In 2001, facing the situation that Nokia was the only one in the mobile phone business, and the respective businesses of Sony and Ericsson were also in competition, which were stronger than brands including Eight Star and Motorola, the two companies decided to team up to keep warm. In 2001 In October of 10, Sony Corporation and Ericsson Corporation invested 50% respectively to establish Sony Ericsson Corporation, which mainly produces mobile phone products.

Before 2007, under the pressure of the rise of smart phones in the market, the feature phones produced by Sony Ericsson gradually lost the market, and the company's operations slipped into the quagmire of losses step by step.

However, after half a year of negotiations, at the end of October last year, the two parent companies, Sony and Ericsson, reached an agreement that Sony would pay Ericsson 10 billion euros (about 5000 billion U.S. dollars), and the latter bought Sony from Ericsson. Ericsson.

On February 2 this year, the Sony Mobile Communications subsidiary was established. Sony Ericsson has since come to an end and officially entered the market. The Sony mobile phone brand has reappeared in the field of vision of the niche.

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