Chapter 727 Merger?
In mid-January, after spending some time with Bonnie, Chrissy and the children at Grace Lavender Manor, Barron left Australia and went to the United States.
This time when he came to the United States, the first place he arrived was California.
At the manor where Amanda lived, Barron met their child, William Hearst.
Although Amanda Hester did not stop Barron from visiting William, she still did not give in and was still prepared to raise the child alone.
"If the child and I are asked to return to you, then the only possibility is that we get married and you can give William a normal family environment."
This is what Amanda said to Barron at the time.
Although Barron has divorced Bonnie, he is no longer preparing to enter into marriage. After all, with his current situation, among other women, no matter who he marries again, he will ultimately have a negative impact on the marriage. For other people, it is difficult to accept.
Even though Barron tried to "sweet talk" Amanda, it seems that Amanda doesn't like this at all now...
Fortunately, by Amanda's side , at least her cousin Lydia Hearst helped Barron so that he could get news about Amanda and the child in time.
In this case, Barron left the manor where Amanda was after visiting the children.
Of course, Barron is not too disappointed. After all, he has tested Amanda's attitude through Lydia before this, and he is already mentally prepared for this. .
After O2 Telecom completed the acquisition of T-MobileUSA, O2USA used their competitive strategy of low-price packages in the European market to increase their market share in North America relative to the former T-Mobile There has been considerable improvement.
“In the North American market, we took the lead in lowering the tariff standards and providing users with more affordable family packages to attract more family users...”
O2USA’s The CEO introduced to Barron:
"This has indeed enabled us to achieve quite obvious results in terms of market share, but on the other hand, it will also cause a reduction in profit margins, but compared with the increased number of users, it is worth it."
Of course, if we can compete for more users from other operators, the short-term decline in profit margins will be tolerated.
But after O2 Telecom takes action, other telecom operators may also take the initiative or be forced to adjust their tariffs, which will also intensify competition between them.
In fact, this low-price strategy has not only been successful for O2 Telecom in the European market, but SoftBank Group has also achieved huge success in the Japanese market after acquiring Vodafone Japan. success.
It’s just that this is usually a method used by telecommunications companies with relatively low market share to expand their scale. For example, if they are one of the best companies in the market, they rarely actively use this method to reduce single customer revenue. way.
In addition, some people have suggested that it can increase its market share in North America through mergers and acquisitions with other operators.
After all, although O2USA can now rank as the third largest telecom operator in North America, in fact, the market share of the top two telecom operators AT&T and Verizon is much higher than that of other operators. O2USA can merge with Sprint, the fourth largest operator. Although the new company after the merger is still the third largest telecom operator in the United States, after the merger of the two, its number of users has barely reached the same level as the first two largest operators. Carriers AT&T and Verizon are on par. The advantage of this merger is that it can have greater economies of scale. For the merged company, it can upgrade equipment in a unified way and save costs.
However, there is still a lot of resistance to this kind of merger. In addition to the fact that American-related institutions are not so easy to pass mergers and acquisitions of this scale, the main problem lies in the current use of In terms of 3G networks, O2 Telecom uses the WCDMA standard, while Sprint uses CDMA2000, just like China Mobile and China Unicom, which are difficult to integrate.
“Technical obstacles are not insurmountable. As long as we are willing to pay enough, we can use the same network standard in the next generation 4G network...”
Barron heard the other party say:
“But even so, more resistance will come from relevant regulatory agencies, or in other words, from AT&T and Verizon. They definitely don’t want us to work together. Sprint merges to form a more threatening company, so it will inevitably lobby frantically to avoid the merger being approved.” Relevant government resources, mainly personal connections, will also be stronger than them.
Of course, this does not mean that this kind of merger is destined to not be approved. The problem is that even if the merger can be allowed, it will inevitably come with some relatively stringent conditions - just like Barron's previous life. When , T-Mobile and Sprint were finally allowed to merge, but both Sprint and T-Mobile paid considerable "sincerity" for this.
For example, when approving the deal, the U.S. Department of Justice ordered Sprint to divest certain assets, including BoostMobile and some wireless spectrum; and T-Mobile must also allow DishNetwork access to its network within seven years to help it Become a new national telecommunications operator and increase market competition.
Therefore, before considering whether to initiate the acquisition of Sprint to achieve a merger between the two, they need to weigh whether such a result has more development potential compared with O2 Telecom's own development in the North American market.
After all, not all large-scale mergers can have good results, and even most mergers cannot ultimately bring about stronger competitiveness. Only a few mergers can be called Successful.
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“Now it seems that Google’s GOS system is not a success, at least not as successful as they expected…”
See you in Los Angeles After arriving at Ivanta, she said this with a smile on her face.
"But it seems like they have no intention of giving up so easily, honey. They just announced a while ago that they will continue to increase their investment in the mobile operating system business."
"Yes, this will indeed be a little bit... It’s troublesome, but I still have great confidence in Android.”
As Barron said, Google has not given up on mobile operating systems so easily, which is also related to their strategy. .
It is not difficult for Google to see the potential of the future mobile Internet market, but the problem is that the search technology that Google is proud of can occupy the vast majority of the market share based on PC-side operating habits.
But if users’ Internet habits change, mobile Internet explodes, and people start to use smartphones to access the Internet, this will be a crisis for Google.
(End of this chapter)