Chapter 572 - Acquisition Offer
Compared with the vigorous development of mutual network enterprises, traditional telecom companies are not having a good time. Some poorly managed telecommunications companies have resorted to unscrupulous means such as forcibly inserting small advertisements, and they have been rejected by users, falling into a vicious circle, and becoming more and more difficult to operate.
Under the pressure of performance, large telecom companies also have forced small advertisements, and there are various cases of diversification failure. The saddest thing for telecom companies is that the hardware investment is huge, the capital recovery cycle is long, once the investment cycle is long, the process will face various risks, and some companies will even encounter a financial crisis that is basically once every 10 years.
None of this is a problem, but there is also the unexpected impact of technological advances on telecom companies.
Bi Ruozhi is a 20-year-old boy with a young heart and disdains all the methods. When he was frustrated by the major telecom companies and looked down on those non-mainstream telecom companies that inserted small advertisements indiscriminately, he suddenly had the idea of self-improvement, excellence, small, talk, more, new, fastest, and fastestThe idea of setting up a telecommunications company.
Bi Ruozhi has already seen that the technology of the Magic Mirror Camp is very good, using the Li-Fi technology invented by a professor at the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. This technology is so advanced that Bi Ruozhi thinks it can be used to subvert the current unscrupulous telecom operators.
Li-Fi technology is very similar to i-Fi technology, -Fi uses microwaves, while Li-Fi L stands for Light, which uses light waves (visible light).
There is a tall signal tower in the center of the Phantom Camp, as long as the players who rent the camp tent use customized signal lights to dock with the signal tower, they can get up to 1G of broadband, and the uplink and downlink are exactly the same (this is a characteristic of the holographic communication era, and the inevitable requirement of high-throughput interaction).
Why can high-level phantom beasts only be encountered in the Phantom Mirror Camp? In addition to business factors, bandwidth constraints on gaming are also a big factor. The more advanced the phantom beast special effects, the more gorgeous they are, which puts forward higher requirements for bandwidth.
Protectionism is ubiquitous, and many residential properties have signed exclusive fiber access agreements with certain telecom companies, not allowing the equipment of the second telecom company to enter the community. But with such a powerful wireless communication method as Lifi, the property's control over the telecommunications equipment is suddenly gone!
LIFI towers can be erected outside of the community, as long as the user has a window facing the LIFI tower. It's impossible for a property to go door-to-door to block people's windows, right?
Today's telecom companies often ask you a question when opening an account: "What community are you in?" "While determining whether your cell is fiber enabled, and whether it supports how many megabytes of bandwidth.
Later, the question can be simplified to "Can I see our Phantom Company's signal tower from the window of your house?" "As long as you can see it, take home 1G broadband!
It sounds like lifi broadband is very powerful, but it will still be blocked by smog, and in the current situation that the smog in major cities in the Qing Dynasty is very serious, traditional optical fiber technology is still useful.
Bi Ruozhi contacted Saber and said: "I talked to the executives of the four most important telecom companies, Daqing Telecom, Southern Telecom, Daqing Royal Telecom, and Daqing Imperial Telecom, and they all offered very high prices, and I felt that it would be a loss to cooperate with other small telecommunications companies."
So, I suddenly had the idea of building my own telecom company, because I saw that Magic Camp used LIFI technology, which seems to be a perfect replacement for fiber optic technology. ”
This one...... Saber couldn't answer Bi Ruozhi's question, so he had to turn the conversation to Li Xiantai again.
This time, Li Xiantai didn't listen to the conversation between Saber and Bi Ruozhi on the side, so Saber said to Bi Ruozhi: "Please wait, I have something to do." Then after a while, Mrs. Li Xian had time to come over and listen to the recording of the conversation between Saber and Bi Ruozhi, and then took over the conversation.
"You've got a lot of ideas." Li Xiantai is very satisfied with this young brother, and it seems that a capable information technology brother has been able to do so.
"I agree with you, you can start building your own broadband environment in some communities, but the LIFI equipment is very expensive, and unlimited communication will be affected by weather factors, so it can only be used as a means to force the operator.
I don't know the specific cost, you can talk to the people of Guangzhou Phantom Mirror Company, because they are responsible for the project of Phantom Camp, if you are too busy, you can also recruit a senior person in the telecommunications field to assist you, and you can give a high salary. ”
Bi Ruozhi's unconfident proposal was approved by the leader, and he was very happy and felt that he had found a lifelong career. Maxima often exists, but Bole does not often have.
This maxima has completely entered the state of a telecommunications industry disruptor, and he thinks about how to compensate for the impact of climate factors on the LIFI signal?
At this time, the day of meeting with the people at Google has come. Bi Ruozhi is a translation major, his English is too good to be good, and he talked and laughed with Ye Saining, an executive of Google's investment department, and even Bi Ruozhi couldn't help but talk about how to solve the problem of Lifi signals, and wanted to ask the seniors in the IT industry for advice.
Yesenin, who led the investment in SpaceX, immediately recommended that if he was interested in improving the telecommunications industry, he could use SpaceX's recyclable rockets to launch communication satellites.
In the past, the cost of launching a communication satellite was 20 million US dollars at every turn, of which the cost of rocket fuel was only a few hundred thousand US dollars, and after SpaceX was born, the rocket could be recovered, and the cost dropped nearly 100 times, so SpaceX has now monopolized the satellite launch market.
Due to the sharp drop in the cost of satellite launches, cheap satellite broadband has become possible, in fact, the number of satellites launched by countries is steadily and sharply rising, Yesenin welcomes Phantom Mirror to join this satellite feast, and may become one of the biggest players.
Yesenin knew the cost of satellite communication well, took a pen to write and calculate, and immediately came up with a cost plan for satellite broadband, which is much cheaper than the fiber optic backbone network, and the traditional telecom company really encountered a killer.
Satellites that use microwave communication are largely unaffected by the weather, which can greatly compensate for the shortcomings of LIFI communication.
The two talked in detail, and at the end, Yesenin gave their offer for the phantom mirror, Bi Ruozhi knew that the phantom mirror OS could not sell himself, but he still listened to the offer happily, about 3 billion US dollars, tsk, and increased by 1 billion, which is really happy.
Looking back, Bi Ruozhi told Li Xiantai about the communication with Google executives and their offer for Phantom OS, Li Xiantai smiled and said: "Continue to work hard, the ideas are very good, and now the pressure on the telecom is even greater." ”
Bi Ruozhi began to feel that this Saber and the Phantom Mirror team were by no means rookies, and he heard that Google raised the offer by $1 billion as soon as he spoke, and he was so excited that he might not be able to sleep well tonight, but Saber was just a light breeze near noon, and there was no net worth of tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars to have this mentality?
He didn't know that Li Xiantai used billions of dollars worth of nuclear submarines to induce hatred for the Soviets!
"Saber" repeatedly expressed no interest in the so-called offer, and when the third Amazon reported 4 billion, Bi Ruozhi was no longer so surprised, as if there was no essential difference between 4 billion and 3 billion, in fact, "more than 18 lifetimes can not be spent".
If you want to say that you have a lot of money, it has to belong to our big Microsoft company, because it is in a lawsuit with Phantom OS, so I am embarrassed to send someone to contact directly, and first found the founder of a startup company invested by Panda Capital to be a broker.
For the sake of the same Panda Capital investment, Bi Ruozhi has to see it, right?
Microsoft sent an associate director of finance, arrogantly saying that it was going to buy Phantom OS, anyway, you were also banned, don't sell yourself at this time, when will you wait?
The young and vigorous Bi Ruozhi was not even interested in listening to Microsoft's offer, although the deputy chief financial officer finally shouted: "We give 7 billion US dollars, cash!" If you want money, I can also arrange for a truck to deliver it, in short, we want to buy Magic Mirror OS! ”
Bi Ruozhi was shocked when he heard this, and finally drove the Microsoft people away, leaving a sentence: "If we don't sell it, we won't be threatened!" ”
Alas, 7 billion, one step away from the terrifying $10 billion. A fledgling company can be valued at 7 billion, which shows that the keynote speech of his own hard work at the Magic Mirror Carnival really stunned these Yankees.
Anyway, he couldn't sleep, Bi Ruozhi got up in the middle of the night, practiced his "mature and steady expression" in front of the dressing mirror, and said to himself: "You, Bi Ruozhi, are now the spokesperson of a start-up company with a valuation of nearly 10 billion US dollars, are you made?" The top 4 of the Qing Dynasty Royal Telecom and the Qing Imperial Telecom are more than 10 billion market capitalization! You're on their footing! ”
He needs to hypnotize himself like this, because he has just made his debut, a 20-year-old guy smashed, can he not be timid in the face of those big business leaders who are fifty or sixty years old and are used to being upper-class uncles?
Just knowing the valuation of Phantom OS is not enough to make Mr. Bi confident, so he has to let the world know. Especially for the discerning but stingy Facebook company to know that their $2 billion valuation is far behind.
After obtaining Li Xiantai's consent, Bi Ruozhi held a "holographic press conference" in the magic mirror, announcing that "the team of the magic mirror OS is seriously considering Microsoft's $7 billion acquisition offer". Of course, this is fake.,Just to let everyone know the power of Phantom OS.,In the future, those acquisitions with much worse conditions will always bother me.。
The ridiculous Microsoft folks are still waiting for Mirror OS to surrender to them.
Facebook is here again, their CEO Lehman was decisive and immediately gave an offer of $8 billion, of course, not necessarily this is better than Microsoft's, because Microsoft said that they want to give cash, even banknotes, this temptation is much stronger than Facebook's equity exchange.
Facebook doesn't have that much cash, and their own business isn't necessarily very profitable.1148