Chapter 83: Exclusive Interview

When the electronic pet machine was launched, it was originally prepared to earn quick money, to raise funds for Dongling High-Tech. Li Dongling didn't prepare to let Dongling High-Tech go all the way to the dark on the electronic pet machine project!

"Digital cordless phone, how is the R&D going now?!" Li Dongling turned to Chen Tao, who was in charge of technology, and asked.

Chen Tao had a bit of embarrassment on his face. According to what he had told Li Dongling before, the digital cordless phone should have been developed last month, but it had been delayed until now.

Li Dongling didn't blame Chen Tao and the technical department. It was very normal for product R&D to be delayed, especially for this kind of R&D of new products from scratch. It was even more common for unexpected situations to occur.

"It is currently under testing. In addition, some functions are being improved. If all tests are completed, we can start trial production!

This cordless phone was designed and developed according to your requirements, Li Zong. All the technology was developed by the technical department itself. Over 67% of the components were developed by ourselves or purchased from other domestic component manufacturers, and the remaining components were purchased from Hong Kong, Japan, and other places."

Dongling High-Tech's digital cordless phone was developed according to Li Dongling's technical requirements. Compared with ordinary cordless phones on the market now, it had many more functions.

Although the R&D speed was a bit slow, when Chen Tao mentioned the digital cordless phone developed for Dongling High-Tech, he was still quite proud. It was quite difficult for a domestic company to develop technology without using foreign technology.

Using more domestic components meant that after being put into production, the cost of Dongling High-Tech's digital cordless phone could be lowered very quickly in the future. If all foreign components were used, it would basically be working for others.

Li Dongling nodded after hearing this, and then looked at Yao Luoying, Hu Zixian, Zhang Ao, and others. "The network access license for digital cordless phones must be handled as soon as possible. In addition, we need to find overseas agents.

Once the digital cordless phone is developed, we will start making commercials and promote the digital cordless phone!"

Digital cordless phones were much more expensive than ordinary landlines. After Dongling High-Tech's digital cordless phones were launched, they would be promoted in the country and abroad at the same time. What they had to do was to use digital cordless phones to replace landlines.

Traditional cordless phones had appeared for many years, but they hadn't been popularized in America and old Europe. The main reason was that there were too many defects, they were easily interfered with, signals were easily stolen, etc. Compared with ordinary landlines, they didn't have much advantage, but had a pile of shortcomings, and the price was expensive, so they naturally spread slowly.

Dongling High-Tech's cordless phone mainly improved the defects of current ordinary cordless phones and added many new functions. If they could take down the landline market in America and old Europe, it would almost be a gold mine that opened its doors to Dongling High-Tech!

Now there were hundreds of millions of landlines in America and old Europe. Even if only one-tenth of the users replaced their landlines with Dongling High-Tech's digital cordless phones, that would be a market of tens of millions or hundreds of millions of digital cordless phones, which could give birth to a new market of billions or even tens of billions of USD!

This new market was not as potential as the mobile phone market, but it was stable. It would be no problem to exist stably for more than ten years. Even if domestic landlines had been eliminated, they still existed stably in America and old Europe, enough to become a stable cash cow for Dongling High-Tech!

Hearing this, Yao Luoying, Hu Zixian, Zhang Ao, Gao Peng, and others could clearly feel that Li Dongling began to shift Dongling High-Tech's attention from electronic pet machines to other businesses. Obviously, he really didn't intend to bet on electronic pet machines.

"In addition, there are two more things," Li Dongling looked at everyone present. "Dongling High-Tech wants to establish a headquarters in Hong Kong to facilitate the handling of overseas business!

The second thing is that Dongling High-Tech's management needs to be adjusted. We need to recruit a general manager and department heads such as production managers!"

As Dongling High-Tech's stall spread out, the business that needed to be handled was also increasing. Not only domestic business, but overseas business also needed to be handled. Especially in the future, it would definitely be necessary to set up offices abroad, which required experienced professional managers to steer Dongling High-Tech.

Now these executives of Dongling High-Tech were already not enough. Introducing professional managers was an inevitable thing.

Yao Luoying, Hu Zixian, Zhang Ao, Gao Peng, and others looked at each other unconsciously. After professional managers joined, especially after the candidate for general manager appeared, the authority of these people who joined Dongling High-Tech earliest in Dongling High-Tech couldn't be like before, being able to manage several departments by one person. And they would also have a title in Dongling High-Tech in the future: the veteran faction.

Any company, from a grass-roots team to a formal one, after introducing professional managers, would have professional managers and veteran factions. However, this kind of camp division was generally not too obvious, especially in the company's rising period. As long as the major shareholders were not confused and deliberately provoked disputes, the two sides would not have internal strife scenes of fighting for power.

Of course, some company bosses also liked to play the balance game, deliberately supporting one faction and suppressing the other to ensure their own authority and not let their subordinates shelve themselves.

Placed in Dongling High-Tech, Li Dongling was the absolute major shareholder. No matter how many factions there were, as long as he didn't pull the bias, the disputes between the parachuted professional managers and various departments would only be internal normal arguments and would not affect the entire Dongling High-Tech!

After the meeting, Li Dongling came to the technical department next to the office building. This building had now also been bought by Dongling High-Tech. Now many new R&D equipment had been added inside, many of which were bought with heavy money, which was not outdated internationally, and was top-notch R&D equipment in the country.

"The test currently being done is an anti-interference and signal confidentiality experiment!"

Entering a laboratory filled with dense equipment, Li Dongling saw the digital cordless phone that could already be considered a finished product. The pure white digital cordless phone's host was placed on the table, and a handset that was much smaller and more exquisite than the brick phone was placed on the side.

To put it bluntly, a digital cordless phone was a master machine like a landline, connected to a telephone line. It could be matched with multiple handsets. The handset used wireless communication technology, didn't need to be connected to a telephone line, and could be used in the room at will.

For this digital cordless phone, Li Dongling was not unfamiliar at all. After all, the drawings were designed by him. This digital cordless phone was designed together with the silver mink mouse, but it was only developed today.

"The digital cordless phone developed by the technical department can be matched with up to six handsets. The farthest call range is 300 meters outdoors, and within five floors indoors, you can talk normally.

In addition, we also developed message functions, caller ID, call rejection, number identification, time display, alarm clock, and other functions according to your requirements, Li Zong. Both the host and the handset use screen orange backlight to ensure that they can be used normally at night!

I can guarantee that the digital cordless phone launched by Dongling High-Tech is the most powerful telephone product in history.

However, because of the addition of these functions, and the current decoder chips, batteries, screens, and other products are all purchased from several Japanese companies such as Toshiba, Sanyo, and Xia Pu, so the cost might... be quite high!"

Chen Tao looked at Li Dongling's face and said cautiously. He knew that Li Dongling had never wanted to be controlled by others, but the functional requirements for the digital cordless phone developed by Dongling High-Tech were too high, which led to high performance requirements for components such as chips, batteries, and screens. Currently, component manufacturers that could meet the requirements of digital cordless phones could only be purchased from those few big Japanese factories.

"However, the technical department also developed new technologies and over 65 patents when developing the digital cordless phone, including patents such as caller ID, number identification, and rejection functions, which have all been applied for and registered by Dongling High-Tech.

And we are working with the joint laboratory and Hanxi Jiaotong University to develop Dongling High-Tech's own digital cordless phone system chip!"

Chen Tao added at the end. Although he didn't have confidence in this sentence himself, developing a chip now was not easy. It required a lot of R&D funds, and it might not be successful. If it were really easy, domestic companies wouldn't be purchasing from foreign manufacturers.

"Complete the test of the digital cordless phone as soon as possible!"

Li Dongling finally patted Chen Tao on the shoulder and said. No matter how unwilling he was to be controlled by others, this was the current status of the domestic technology industry. Key component patents and technologies were controlled by Japan, America, Korea, and old Europe. If you want to use the best components, you have to purchase them from companies like Xia Pu and Toshiba.

However, for Dongling High-Tech's digital cordless phone chip, Li Dongling definitely wanted to invest in R&D. It was fine if computer and mobile phone chips were not easy to develop, but Li Dongling remembered that in the past, whether it was landline phone chips or digital cordless phone chips, most of them were supplied by a domestic manufacturer. At its peak, the annual shipment volume exceeded tens of millions of chips. They could develop them, and Dongling High-Tech also had a chance.

Misfortune is what fortune depends on, and fortune is what misfortune hides. Still that sentence, crisis, sometimes is also an opportunity. How could this not be one of the opportunities for Dongling High-Tech to enter the chip industry!

"Assistant Yao, this reporter from the Hanxi Provincial Station says she wants to see Li Zong!"

When Yao Luoying was about to walk out of the office building, the front desk said to Yao Luoying.

Yao Luoying looked up and saw a girl in a white long dress, carrying a lady's backpack that had spread from Hong Kong, standing there quietly. The girl didn't apply powder or makeup, but she had a beautiful face that couldn't be ignored, and the cold temperament on her body.

As if noticing Yao Luoying's gaze, the white-skirted girl also looked up, and her eyes met Yao Luoying's. Both of them looked at each other.

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