Edward Zamp was a man who liked stability, so despite his considerable dissatisfaction, he chose to become one of the Alliance's first foreign members, allowing Motorola to use cost-effective mobile phone accessories.
However, Edward Zamp was also a man who liked stability, and when he discovered that the Jiangnan Group's Tianxing 5 had secretly entered the American market, he decided to sever this extending tendril completely.
Of course, Edward Zamp stated that he was absolutely not acting out of pique, but because the Jiangnan Group behind Tianxing held the potentially vast organization known as the China Technology Development Alliance. If Huang He succeeded in the mobile phone industry, the other party could very well use the immense advantage of the industry alliance to crush other mobile phone manufacturers in terms of cost, and even impose technical blockades.
This reason was aboveboard, and thanks to Edward Zamp's swift turnaround of Motorola's losses and continuous profit growth after taking office, his order was quickly implemented. Motorola's relevant departments sent a private notice to the United States Mobile Communications Association.
It stated that if any telecommunications operator in the association formed a partnership with Tianxing, Motorola would completely sever its agreements with that operator. They would even go as far as to restrict the phones, and even if a bare-bones phone was purchased, they would limit the use of SIM cards from that specific telecommunications operator.
At this time, Motorola was still the undisputed overlord of the US market. Small mobile communication providers dared not offend them, and large mobile communication providers saw no reason to offend Motorola for a phone with sales of only tens of thousands of units. Therefore, Edward Zamp's will was largely carried out.
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“Mr. Bill, our terms are truly excellent. Although there are some differences in the contract, we are only cooperating with one telecommunications operator. If you cooperate with us, all future Tianxing 5 mobile phone users will be your company’s users. Please consider it again!” Malik Omar repeatedly repeated his words, but he was directly thrown out. He didn't even get to see Mr. Bill. He just shouted a few words at the office door and was forcibly removed by security.
“How did it go, Malik? Did you succeed?” A colleague asked curiously upon his return to the company. Malik could only shake his head helplessly.
“Damn it, why is this goddamn task so difficult? I don’t think I’m suited for this job!” the colleague said with a grin.
“Dear Robert, we can’t give up. We’ve finally become formal employees of the company, put on formal suits, and the company even pays our social security. If we give up this rare opportunity, do you want to go back to that damn Kenya?” Malik questioned.
“Damn, I’d rather go back to Kenya!” the colleague grumbled, but still recovered some of his mobility.
“But Malik, I’ve visited all the companies I have, and they’ve all rejected me. I don’t know what to do next,” the colleague said.
“Robert, actually, I visited all the companies three days ago, and I’ve just finished my second round of visits. I plan to start my third round this afternoon. I have to live up to the efforts Miss Versailles has made for our compatriots!” Malik said.
“Alright, for Miss Versailles’ sake, I’ll try again!” Robert said, and then the two of them worked hard for another two days, but the result was still no users, and no telecommunications company was willing to sign a contract plan with the Tianxing 5 phone.
In fact, it wasn’t just Robert and Malik working hard. A total of 12 employees at BLm Company, the Jiangnan US branch, were working diligently on this matter, their footprints covering almost all telecommunications operating companies in the United States, but it was still useless.
It was at this time that the company convened all staff responsible for this matter at the company headquarters and held an emergency strategy meeting. Naturally, Robert and Malik were among them.
Both of them felt excited and somewhat confused about being able to attend such a meeting. After all, a decision-making meeting of this importance, such as an emergency strategy meeting, would not normally require ordinary employees like them to attend.
But since they were invited, they naturally couldn't refuse. When they arrived at the meeting venue, they were even more surprised to find that this emergency strategy meeting was very grand. The meeting was presided over by the company's president, Hao Jianguo, and Miss Versailles, the chairperson who made all Black people feel excited, was actually present in the conference room at this very moment.
In addition, there were several unfamiliar Eastern faces attending the meeting, and they were seated in important positions. It appeared they were representatives from the company's rumored Eastern headquarters.
This meant that the emergency meeting was indeed of a very high level, and the Tianxing 5 had received extreme attention from the entire company. Although the sales of the Tianxing 5 were a trivial matter for BLm Company.
This made them even more curious as to why they, as insignificant grassroots employees, were also included in such a high-level meeting discussion.
“Everyone!” Hao Jianguo first unconsciously glanced at an ordinary-looking Chinese person beside him, then said with a serious expression, “The reason why all of you frontline employees have been summoned here today to attend this emergency meeting is to hear about the problems you’ve encountered in communicating with these telecommunications companies, and then find a way to break the deadlock!”
“If anyone discovers any interesting issues during their work, they can report it immediately. The company will not forget your contributions!” As Hao Jianguo finished speaking, Malik immediately stood up and said, “Sir, I discovered that someone is deliberately targeting our company, and this person is from Motorola.”
Good heavens, they’ve directly identified the mastermind.
“Do you have concrete evidence to support your statement?” Hao Jianguo did not speak. The Eastern man sitting next to him, however, asked.
“Not concrete, but there is evidence!” Malik said, “I visited a company the day before yesterday. Because I had already been directly rejected by the security guards twice, I guessed that I would be blocked at the door for the third time.”
“So I disguised myself as a renovation worker and easily entered the company, then went into the restroom to change into formal attire before negotiating with the company’s management.”
“Then, in the restroom, I accidentally found a lighter. This lighter had the Motorola logo printed on it, and it was a pure gold lighter, which only Motorola executives could possess. So I felt something was wrong!” Malik said.
In fact, the so-called evidence provided by Malik was full of loopholes. Not to mention whether a pure gold lighter with the Motorola logo truly belonged to a Motorola executive.
Even if it did, it was normal for executives of a mobile phone company to communicate and visit telecommunications operators for business. Therefore, this could not be considered concrete proof of anything.
However, Malik's words acted as a catalyst, and gradually more and more frontline employees stood up to report that they had indeed discovered many clues related to Motorola in their daily work.
It was just that they thought these were normal situations and didn't pay attention. But now, with Malik’s words, they realized that Motorola’s presence was indeed too high.
Following this, everyone provided more intelligence discovered on the front lines. Most of it was useless, but some of it was useful. For example, someone discovered that two or three telecommunications operating companies were actually in difficult operating conditions and on the verge of collapse, so they felt that if the company was willing to approve some cash subsidies, these companies would be very happy to reach cooperation with their own company.
These were all noted down by the higher-ups.
“By the way, I have another discovery here! I don’t know if it’s useful!” Suddenly, Malik spoke again.
“No matter what it is, it will have its use!” Ms. Versailles said, and then Malik said, “This is some old material from the United States Mobile Communications Association. I found it in the reception area of Verizon. This material was placed under the table to prop up the table leg.”
“I looked at it out of curiosity at the time, and found that this was the founding document of the association, that is, the document published when the United States Mobile Communications Association was established, which was 30 years ago, and that's why it was used to prop up the table leg. It records a lot of things, such as the association’s initial rules and regulations, limitations, and member lists.” Malik said.
“What use can this have? It’s a 30-year-old antique!” Hao Jianguo said subconsciously.
“Miss Secretary, do we have this founding document in our possession?” Versailles asked Hao Jianguo’s secretary.
“I’m afraid not. The materials from 30 years ago were all paper. This founding document should only be owned by the founding members at that time, and we don’t have the channels to obtain such documents!” The secretary quickly replied, “However, the association has gone through 30 years, and many regulations have changed, and members have come and gone a lot. I think this document should be of no use now, otherwise, it wouldn’t be used to prop up the table leg.”
“No, I said that everything has its use. Mr. Malik, I hope to get this document immediately. Can you hand it over to us?” Versailles asked.
“I wouldn’t dare to take the document from under the table, but I took photos of every page of these documents with my Tianxing 5 phone!” Malik quickly said, “Actually, I have to thank this company. They left me waiting in the reception room for four hours without sending anyone to meet me, trying to drive me away by such means, but they didn’t expect to give me enough time to photograph these documents!”
After Malik finished speaking, Versailles had the secretary take the phone from Malik, then print it out, and distribute it to all the executives.
Most people looked confused, not knowing what useful information was contained within. On the other hand, the Chinese person seemed to have discovered something, and a look of amusement suddenly appeared on his face.
No one knew what interesting thing he had discovered.