The One Behind It All Chapter 99

In a certain sense, whoever seizes the 3G opportunity will be able to seize the commanding heights of future competition in the communications market and gain a superior competitive advantage.

Aiden is targeting this momentum and firmly believes that the next generation of network technology will be the 3G era. Therefore, he put all his eggs in one basket and began to work hard for his paranoid "belief".

An employee of Huawei's Southern Research Institute said that Huawei's enthusiasm for 3G has reached the point of "starting from the chip", and the cost of each production (delivering the designed chip to the IC factory for production) is several million yuan. The above, coupled with high investment in equipment, has reached a total of 5 billion yuan.

Aiden paid a heavy price for 3G. Because it focused on developing 3G and neglected PHS, its brother ZTE in the same city really made a profit. For the sake of 3G, CDMA was ignored, resulting in Huawei's successive failures in China Unicom's two rounds of CDMA bidding.

The year 2002 was the most severe challenge for the world's communications industry in more than ten years. The international telecommunications industry has stagnated, the income of many equipment vendors has dropped sharply, and business has begun to shrink on a large scale. "The coldness of winter penetrates people's bones."