Nokia: M&A is not the end. Deeply cultivating the Chinese market is the core of future strategy
Talking about the past 2015, Nokia left the deepest impression on people It is undoubtedly the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent.
But in the past year, Nokia’s gains went far beyond that.
Nokia, which is striving to become a leader in the connected world, is one step closer to its vision this year.
At the same time, China has further become an important core of Nokia's global strategy.
Merger and acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent: realizing complementary advantages
There is no doubt that Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent have leading positions in wireless, optical and IP fields respectively. Technical advantages.
This makes this merger a strong alliance with complementary advantages.
This also allows Nokia to provide better technologies and services to the connected world.
It is understood that Nokia CommunicationsIt has global leading advantages in the field of wireless communications. For example, Nokia has accumulated a large number of patented technologies in traditional 2G, 3G, 4G, and 5G, and has a lot of networking experience around the world. At the same time, Nokia also has many technologies in the new field of Internet of Things. and layout; Alcatel-Lucent has advantages in optical communications and IP, especially core routing, optical and IP integration, and software-defined optical networks, which are leading industry trends.
After the merger, the superior resources and businesses of Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent can be integrated and complementary, ultimately giving the new Nokia the technical strength to create a ubiquitous and seamlessly connected world.
According to public data, Huawei invested 5 billion euros in R&D in 2014, Cisco invested 4.7 billion euros, Ericsson 4 billion euros, and Nokia 2.5 billion. Euro, Alcatel-Lucent 2.2 billion euros.
After adding together the R&D expenditures of Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent, their expenditures can reach 4.7 billion euros, ranking them as the second largest equipment manufacturer in R&D investment with Cisco.
The number of R&D employees will exceed 40,000.
Outstanding performance in China: further consolidating the position of the biggest winner of foreign companies
Looking back on the past year, China’s performance is undoubtedly very eye-catching, not only further consolidating its position as the number one foreign businessman, but also in terms of technological innovation There are many breakthroughs
This is also reflected in the financial reports for the first three quarters. Revenue in the first fiscal quarter was 3.2 billion euros, of which the network department’s revenue increased by 15% to 2.67 billion euros, while revenue in Greater China increased by 31%; Revenue in the second quarter was 3.2 billion euros, a growth of 24% in Greater China; revenue in the third quarter was 3.0 billion euros, a growth of 27% in Greater China.
In addition, last year, Nokia also further strengthened its cooperation with China. For example, Nokia signed a mobile communication network equipment and service framework agreement with a total annual value of US$1 billion with China Mobile; it signed a large 4G contract with China Mobile. Assisted China Mobile in deploying Flexi Multiradio 10 in 18 provinces and cities including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong base stations to ensure the best network performance and experience for hundreds of millions of China Mobile users; China Telecom selected Nokia Communications as its largest non-local network equipment supplier in the second phase of LTE new construction bidding; in addition, Nokia also cooperated with Taiwan-based China Telecom China Telecom signed a 3G and 4G network expansion agreement; signed a 5-year 4G mobile communication network equipment and service agreement with Macau operator SmarTone
In terms of 4G technology innovation, Nokia Communications and China Mobile achieved three times the TD-LTE throughput through 3-carrier aggregation at the 2015 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona; Nokia Communications and Shanghai Mobile jointly launched a commercial The world's first TD-LTE-Advanced small base station carrier aggregation was demonstrated on the network; it jointly launched the LIGHT-Net research series results with China Unicom, the smallest integrated base station in the industry, which can meet the deployment needs of different indoor and outdoor scenarios and is the basis for 4G. The era provides new ideas for quickly solving network capacity and coverage
China becomes a global innovation base
With the continuous rise of smart manufacturing in China , China has increasingly become the center of global innovation, and Nokia, which has always been committed to using China as an innovation center, pays more attention to building China as the core of global innovation.
In April last year, Nokia announced the expansion of its Chengdu R&D center, turning it into one of Nokia's leading R&D centers in the world, focusing on the research and development of core network technology and telecommunications and Internet convergence technologies.
As early as 2014. In 2016, Nokia settled its TD-LTE global R&D headquarters in Hangzhou.
In terms of 5G innovation, Nokia signed a 5G strategic cooperation memorandum with China Mobile Communications Research Institute to carry out all-round strategic cooperation in 5G key technology research, international standardization and industrialization promotion; and China Unicom on "Technology Vision 2020" Carry out strategic cooperation to look forward to the global and domestic telecommunications industry environment in 2020 and beyond
In addition, in order to provide better services to Chinese operators, Nokia built the Nokia Service Operation Center in Zhengzhou to provide innovative exclusive network services to Chinese operators. At the same time, it is also Nokia's top five service operation centers in the world.
The vision of an infinitely connected world proposed by Nokia is also consistent with the "Internet+" advocated by the Chinese government , "industrial manufacturing 2025" and other action plans.
It can play an important role in China's transformation to an innovative economy.
For example, the 5G, Internet of Things, information security and other technologies that Nokia focuses on are the infrastructure and the latest technologies for mankind to move towards a programmable world in the future and allow Internet+ to be implemented.Key technologies, and the arrival of 5G and the Internet of Things will change the way all industries operate and will also bring unlimited new business opportunities.
