Chapter 568

"Congratulations, Mr. Stephenson, on your return to at & T!" EVA Stephenson friendly said that although there is a sense of conflict between Yota and at & T, it is mainly because at & T, under the leadership of Abraham, is aggressive to Yota communication. Stephenson is still a great benefactor of Yota communications.

"There's nothing to celebrate, EVA. Instead, it's Yota communication. It's not the startup company in the past! But I'm curious. Aren't you really going to let Yota go public? " Stephenson asked curiously.

"Yota is developing very well now. We don't need capital to tell us what to do. I like the feeling of controlling everything. Once it's listed, there will always be people who will gossip about our business!" EVA explained patiently to Stephenson.

"By the way, what's the status of your iridium company?" Stephenson said that his real purpose is iridium. The fixed line telephone market in the United States has developed to a very mature stage. At & T's subscriber growth rate has begun to decline by a large margin, In contrast, at & T's mobile phone users and business volume are growing at a crazy rate of 70% every year. This increase and decrease strongly shows the future of the telecom industry.

"Stephenson, do we have to go around like this? I know what you're here for today. Why don't you just talk about what you want and what you are willing to give? " EVA said directly.

"We at & t want to take a stake in Yota!" Stephenson said simply.

"It's impossible, Yota doesn't accept other investors, never!" EVA refused mercilessly.

"Listen, EVA, the cooperation between our two companies can make each other get what they want most. If your mobile communication is not involved in the telephone network of at & T, it will only be a flashy toy for most ordinary users. I don't deny that Yota's mobile communication technology has many unique features, such as your SMS function and some value-added service functions. But how much does a Yota terminal cost? I'm afraid the cheapest is $1000... "Stephenson said earnestly.

"The price is only the current one. We have a world-renowned consumer electronics manufacturer on our board of directors. We are confident that we will reduce the price and cost to half of the current level." EVA still stubbornly refused Stephenson's suggestion.

Stephenson's face can't hang any longer. He is also a man of high reputation in the business world, but now he has to ask for a little girl. Although the expression on Stephenson's face didn't change much, his thumb pressed his knuckles hard and his fingers turned white.

"Mr. Stephenson, why don't we work together in a different way?" EVA, it's a sudden reversal.

"How do you want to cooperate?" Stephenson finally breathed a sigh of relief when he mentioned this sentence. He didn't want to quarrel with this woman, because this time Stephenson still had the task of the board of directors of at & T to break the situation of the two companies.

"Mr. Stephenson, I still have about 75% of iridium. You see, I'll give up 15% of the shares, and at & T can give up the same share in exchange! " EVA suddenly said to Stephenson that this was a strategy formulated by Peterson and EVA before meeting Stephenson, because Peterson also saw the limitations of satellite mobile communication in the environment. In densely populated areas, the performance of the satellite is much worse than that of the ground base station. In addition, the practicability of the iridium system will be greatly reduced if it is not able to communicate directly with fixed line telephone users.

"It's not a bad suggestion. How many shares do you want?" Stephenson has always been in a weak position in the face of EVA, who is waiting to be sold. Now EVA finally shows her true colors. This woman actually wants shares in at & T. At & T is a listed company, but iridium is not officially put into operation. EVA is just a white wolf with nothing.

"Well, I'll exchange 15% of iridium's shares for 15% of your preferred shares. In addition, I would like to transfer the network solution to iridium. You can also put the network plan on iridium's platform to operate. " EVA lion big mouth said. At & T is losing money in the exchange of iridium's original shares for at & T's preferred shares.

"EVA, 15% is too much. I think the board of directors can give up 10% at most. If you want, you can buy some shares from the open market!" Stephenson has made an account in his mind. According to the offer of iridium's shareholders who have subscribed for shares, the company's valuation has reached 50 billion yuan. Once iridium gets the technical authorization of Yota communication and can use Yota's network technology for free, it is equivalent to Yota injecting about 40 billion dollars of capital into the company again. So the overall market value of iridium is close to 100 billion, which is very close to that of at & T.

"15 percent, that's the bottom line of cooperation!" EVA insisted.

"This is preferred stock, not common stock, 10% at most, but we can compensate you in other ways!" Stephenson, too, is sticking to the same price.

"Well, I can give you 15 percent, but you need to inject your existing network assets into iridium. In addition, I am also interested in some things of your company! I heard that the optical fiber technology of Bell Labs has been very mature. I think if you hand over this technology to iridium, I can cooperate in the way you proposed! " EVA suddenly mentioned what at & T had been working hard on.

"Optical fiber, do you know very well? But how can this kind of thing be taken out at will? It's the painstaking efforts of Bell Labs for many years Stephenson insisted.

"Mr. Stephenson, NTT's optical fiber technology is also mature, but I don't want to transfer my shares to them. The more shares I have in at & T, the more I care about the interests of this company!"

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A few days later, the capital market on Wall Street was once again rocked by the news of the news of the Peng Bo news agency. At & T, which was originally on the same trend, suddenly announced that it would swap shares with iridium. At the same time, at & T also announced that it would integrate its network business into iridium. The little iridium company has already set foot in the two trillion level investment blue ocean of network market and satellite communication market before it has been officially put into operation.