Chapter 248: Wild Imagination

Public opinion is something that is just there; if you don't occupy it, others will occupy it. If you don't speak up yourself, others will speak for you. The mouth is on others; what they say is not up to you!

Thousands of years of Confucian culture have deeply embedded the "Doctrine of the Mean" into the character of the Chinese people. This cannot be said to be bad; the Doctrine of the Mean is by no means pedantry, but an attitude and style when constructing a worldview and outlook on life, emphasizing moderation in all things.

However, when placed in public opinion, especially when dealing with foreign media and companies, it is very passive. Foreign countries operate on the logic of the strong, or even the logic of robbers. As long as you win, you are a hero. The so-called "history of the years" is written by the winners; black can be painted white, and robbers can be touted as heroes...

Li Dongling's attitude toward media and public opinion is that he doesn't need to rely on media hype, but he will never shrink back. He must face what needs to be faced.

Sometimes, appropriately bragging a bit—about being confused about the future, having only cold billions in cash left in the account, having no interest in money, setting a small goal first, taking down Motorola and Nokia, becoming the boss of the mobile phone industry, etc. —is all fine to brag about. Foreign onlookers eat this up; the more you brag, the more they feel your brand is powerful. If you are a silent gourd and don't let out a fart, you will instead be questioned about whether you are a fraud.

Rather than letting that group of media edit and speculate, it is better to take the initiative and grasp the initiative.

In Hanxi, news about the communications industry has been frequent. It was successively reported that the joint negotiation team composed of Dongling High-Tech, Zhongxing, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) had successively reached cooperation agreements with the Siam Telecom and Malaysia Telecom inspection teams. After that, the door to the PHS market in Southeast Asia and even Asia was completely opened.

PHS in Asia has already shown a trend of raging fire, blossoming everywhere in the mainland, Japan, Siam, and Malaysia.

And after Siam and Malaysia, PHS has shown an unstoppable trend, with news of introducing PHS technology coming from places like India, Mumbai, and Sri Lanka.

In addition, far away in Brazil in South America, Zhao Jiang has also led a team to head there, preparing to open up a new battlefield. The global communications industry has been shaken because of PHS.

Previously, the communications industry was always considered a battle between GSM and CDMA. Now, the immensely fierce PHS technology has emerged, and the communications industry looks like it is about to enter a tripartite confrontation.

And Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) has also ushered in its highlight moment. NTT, which is selling and promoting PHS technology all over the world, has the appearance of a communications giant.

But in the Southeast Asian communications industry, the most shocking thing is still the Ning's Trading Company in Hong Kong, which suddenly announced cooperation with Dongling High-Tech and Mainland Telecom, applying to the Hong Kong Telecommunications Authority to introduce PHS technology into Hong Kong, and the two sides jointly established Hong Kong Telecom. Hong Kong Telecom will become the headquarters of the telecom company in Asia.

Following closely, Ning's Trading Company announced that it had obtained the agency rights for Xiaolingtong mobile phones in Hong Kong from Dongling High-Tech!

This news caused a sensation in Hong Kong no less than a tsunami. What is the scene of the communications industry in Hong Kong right now? It is almost a powder keg, and it will explode if one is not careful!

Hong Kong has not yet returned to the land of Shenzhou. Although the communications industry in Hong Kong also has several telecom companies like Sun Hung Kai's SmarTone, Sunday Telecom, and Australia's CSL Telecom.

But none of them are enough to be mentioned in the same breath as the Hong Kong Telecom company under the British Cable & Wireless company. The latter controls Hong Kong's main telephone lines, telegraphs, submarine optical cables, etc., and is almost a monopoly. Coupled with the British and the Hong Kong Governor's Office favoring them, the British Cable & Wireless company and Hong Kong Telecom have earned a large amount of revenue from Hong Kong almost every year.

Whoever controls Hong Kong Telecom becomes the boss of Hong Kong's communications industry, and whoever holds this cash cow that can contribute tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars every year.

More importantly, this relates to the communications industry in Hong Kong. After Hong Kong returns, will the communications industry in Hong Kong be in the hands of the Chinese, or will it continue to be controlled by the British, or even sold to overseas buyers? These have not yet been concluded. The struggle for Hong Kong Telecom is also extremely fierce. Hong Kong companies, British telecom companies, Singapore Telecom, Huaerjie, etc., all have intentions to obtain this cash cow.

But at this time, the news that Ning's Trading Company wants to introduce Mainland Telecom and PHS and Xiaolingtong into Hong Kong has to make people speculate about the deep meaning behind it. As for Ning's Trading Company introducing PHS and Xiaolingtong purely to make money, conspiracy theorists simply don't believe it.

And Telecom establishing a headquarters in Hong Kong facing the Asian market to radiate the telecom market in various parts of Asia from Hong Kong—I'm afraid no one will believe it if it's said out loud!

"New twists in the struggle for Hong Kong Telecom: Ning's Tiger Daughter draws strong reinforcements from the mainland, wanting to snatch food from the tiger's mouth!"

"Asia's Telephone King, Dongling High-Tech founder Li Dongling, takes action again to support Ning Wenkai in acquiring Hong Kong Telecom!"

"Hong Kong Telecom welcomes a strong enemy; Ning's wants to replace Hong Kong Telecom with PHS and Xiaolingtong!"

"Who will it fall to? The current contenders for Hong Kong Telecom already include the Li family of Cheung Kong, Singapore Telecom, and British Telecom. Now, the Ning Group has appeared!"

"Ning Wenkai suspected of having a private meeting with Asia's newly promoted top wealthy person Li Dongling at Ning's new mansion..."

Originally, the struggle for Hong Kong Telecom was highly anticipated, involving many people behind the scenes, and has always been the focus of competition between the mainland, Hong Kong, Britain, and even Huaerjie. Now, Ning's Trading Company joining forces with Telecom to enter Hong Kong makes people imagine wildly.

There is also speculation that the British Cable & Wireless side knows that the mainland wants to keep the controlling stake of Hong Kong Telecom in Hong Kong, so Cable & Wireless has been desperately raising the price of Hong Kong Telecom. Now the asking price has exceeded 10 billion USD. Everyone knows that Hong Kong Telecom is a cash cow, but it is not expensive to this outrageous extent.

And there is an even louder voice that Ning's introducing PHS and Xiaolingtong is to break the monopoly position of Hong Kong Telecom in Hong Kong's communications industry, so that Hong Kong Telecom cannot be the only one, and to press down the price of Hong Kong Telecom.

After all, with PHS's rapid performance in the mainland and Japan, Hong Kong is also a city suitable for PHS development, with a large and dense population. As long as enough PHS base stations are laid, the signal will not be a problem. Everyone can see that once Xiaolingtong becomes the mainstream of Hong Kong's mobile phone industry, Hong Kong Telecom's status will be greatly discounted, and it will no longer be able to ask for sky-high prices.

Hong Kong's media, the tabloids have always been developed. As soon as the news broke here, there were tabloids there reporting that Li Dongling had already flown to Hong Kong and started having a private meeting with Ning Wenkai.

There are also media fabricating that this is the newly promoted Asian Telephone King, who is angry for the sake of a beauty, and taking down Hong Kong Telecom is entirely to make the beauty smile...

All kinds of news with noses and eyes make people dazzled. Not to mention the ordinary onlookers, even Ning Wenkai, the protagonist in the news, was a bit confused when she saw these reports. She didn't know that she could have such great influence, attracting the entire Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and British telecom industries to follow suit with one move.

In a new mansion in Hong Kong that the Ning family had just moved into, this mansion was just bought by the Ning family, costing nearly 35 million Hong Kong dollars.

In the past few years, Ning's Trading Company has completely gotten rid of its debts, and the electronic pet machines, Shenzhou digital cordless phones, mini radios, etc., that it acts as an agent for have all made a lot of money. Coupled with the fame brought by the cooperation with Dongling High-Tech, mainland companies now like to hand over the agency rights in Hong Kong to Ning's Trading Company. A considerable part of the transactions of mainland brand products in Hong Kong has been taken away by Ning's, which has caused Ning's Trading Company's revenue to soar continuously.

The Ning family's family fortune has also risen with the tide. Buying a mansion is not much. In the mansion's dining room, Ning Wantian, sitting in a wheelchair, looked through the newspaper in his hand and couldn't help but ask Ning Wenkai with suspicion, "Are you really going to let Ning's join the struggle for Hong Kong Telecom?!"

Hearing her father ask, Ning Wenkai, who had already been sought by countless waves of reporters today and had received countless calls, was also helpless.

Waving her hand to let the Filipino maid aside leave first, Ning Wenkai got up and served a bowl of soup for Ning Wantian. "Ning's Trading Company, joining forces with Dongling High-Tech and Mainland Telecom to introduce PHS technology and Xiaolingtong mobile phones, is purely to develop the PHS business in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is very suitable for the PHS business. I think there is an opportunity to develop it. If Xiaolingtong can be promoted in Hong Kong, this will be the most important industry for Ning's Trading Company in the future!"

"But, the Cable & Wireless company and the Hong Kong Governor's Office may not think so!" Ning Wantian said with a frown.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 249 =====